Posted on 01/04/2005 1:28:19 PM PST by kattracks
The establishment press has been dutifully chronicling the disaster relief contributions of Western nations in the wake of the South Asia tsunami disaster, where victims were overwhelmingly Muslim.
But almost nobody seems concerned about how Muslim nations themselves are doing in the tsunami aid competition.Top radio talker Rush Limbaugh stepped into the breach on Tuesday, detailing for his audience the relatively stingy response from brother nations.
• Saudi Arabia - $10 million. "That's like an afternoon shopping spree in Paris for a member of the Saudi royal family," noted Limbaugh.
• Iran pledged a puny $627,000 - a small fraction of what they're spending on their nuclear weapons program.
• Wildly wealthy Qatar - just $10 million of their petrodollars.
• The United Arab Emirates - $2.6 million.
• Kuwait - $2 million.
• Libya - $2 million.
• Turkey - $1.25 million.
Compare that to the $350 million in government aid pledged by the Great Satan (America), not to mention hundreds of millions more from private U.S. donors.
Surely U.N. officials will be calling a press conference any minute now to complain that wealthy Muslim nations are being too stingy with relief dollars.
I wonder how the Saudi donations compares with their spending on those infernal Wahabbist indoctrination camps they fund around the region.
bookmarking for later reference....
thanks for posting this kattracks.
What? no mention here of France's contribution?
Muslims do not have much at all to be proud of. But they don't seem to care. That should put alot into perspective.
/sarcasm
They will say "Mekhtoub!(It is written!") It is the will of Allah!"
If comparisons are to be done, what matters is aid amount for a nation as a percentage of the total GDP. This is then modified by the population to get a per capita aid amount.
(aid divided by GDP) divided by population
To speak only of absolute amounts is meaningless.
Wow...I can't wait until Kofi jumps on this and Rather, Brokaw and Jennings report it. This will really stir things up on the national news tonight.
whappp...thud...pound
Now that I knocked some sense into myself, I guess maybe we will be lucky if Fox mentions it.
Factor in the prevailing opinion of the country within the halls of the UN, their ideology relative to that of the United States (by which all that is evil is gauged) and the perceived obligation of each nation to spend even a penny on charitable works, and you have a more realistic formula.
So much for charity being one of the pillars of islam.
BTW, there are other Muslim countries, any reports on them?
Well, the Arab world did invent the concept of the number zero, so it's appropriate that they're basically giving that concept here.
There are only three true pillars of Islam.
1. Kill Jews
2. Kill Christians
3. Kill each other. The Muslims are proving #3 in Iraq now.
Maybe they could trick Allah into allowing him into Paradise.
Theyve given nothing to society for 1000 years. They are a bankrupt people. Ask yourself...If some of their countries didnt have oil..what would be their contribution to mankind? ZERO!
This was highlighted on CBC Radio's The Current yesterday, where the correspondent also mentioned the large earthquake that wiped out whole cities in Iran just a year before the Asian quake/tsunami. Countries, including the United States, and around the world dumped millions and millions of dollars into the relief efforts in Iran.
Of course they aren't!! Drain our ecomomy as much as possible. They are just sitting back watching us use up all our bullets and waiting. That's always been the plan...every move they make is to create another money pit for us. And we are just SO PROUD of ourselves....hey world look what we are doing? Aren't we special? We're going to help our enemies destroy us, cause Jesus said to not have a brain and do that. Unbelieveable...just unbelieveable.
I haven't seen recent tallies by country, but the list that came out last Friday did not include a single African or South American country among the top 34 contributors. The list of no-shows includes large countries like Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Egypt, Algeria, and Tunisia. Moreover, neither Russia, Taiwan, Romania, Austria, Belgium, Hungary, Poland, or the Philippines were on the list. But I heard NO criticism of ANY of those countries in the world media. ALL the criticism was directed at the USA, which - along with Japan - has fas and away been the biggest contributor to the relief effort.
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