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.
okay, where's a quick link to countries, listed by GNP? What about contributions from the Muslim countries in north Africa and western Asia?
Spain and France made relatively substantial contributions; but in the early going, the entire continents of Africa and South America were no-shows, as were Russia, Poland, Hungary, Belgium, Taiwan, Austria, and the Philippines.
Remember, CHARITY is one of the pillars of ISLAM!!!(sarcasm)
What bull.
I like how Ceci Connolly, Mary Ann Marsh, etc., criticize America for spending more on aid for Florida victims than on the current tragedy. Do they even realize that Florida is a part of America, while Sri Lanka, etc., are filled with people who will be killing us in 10 years? The dems aren't getting any smarter, are they?
Muslims can't give big donations to charity, it would make what they do to the Palestinians look bad.
Was God in the Tsunami? Who knows?( I apologize if this is the wrong thread to post this in.
Jack Cafferty of CNN jumped on this this morning, he mentioned that one of the countries (Saudi Arabia I think) gave much much more money to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers. These countries are eternally focused on their own petty vendettas and power struggles. A catastrophy that might add up to as many casualties as Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined fails to reach them.
This may be a good time to ask... How much has Canada, aka Canuckistan, contributed? Air transport? Naval assets? Anything?
Is hasn't occured to our government, I am sure, that mosques and muslim schools, financed by foreign countries (as opposed to the people using them) are probably terrorist factories.
Keep a sharp eye on your paycheck...
That is the silliest statement I have heard in the longest time.
It is the cry of a mentality used to demanding credit for good intentions, not actual benefit achieved.
"To speak only of absolute amounts is meaningless."
only if you consider socioeconomic policy meaningless. get a crackpot dictator to drive any semblance of an economy into the ground with corruption, regulation and isolationism, and $100 looks like a significant chunk of the GNP. If you want to start playing games with what metrics of charity are meaningful, you need to consider ALL factors, including what resulted in a nation or nations being ill-prepared to financially handle a natural disaster. hell... the U.S. is nearly 8 TRILLION dollars in debt, but we are somehow prepared to handle our own disasters and others?
I thought about this after reading that tiny Britain pledged 94 million a few days after the disaster. Muslim nations need to care for their own people and really should have pledged a billion per oil rich country. Western nations give out of generousity and compassion, with no return. Why is it we are OBLIGATED, then castigated for stinginess? Why not say thank you instead? As much compassion as I have for the victims, the news media saw fit to report dozens of them complaining that the U.S. wasn't already there. I hate to say it, but if we weren't the world's big brother, people wouldn't expect things from us, they would accept our help as the gift it is.
Charity is mostly a Western, JudeoChristian concept. Why do we expect people who do not share our worldview or values to see things our way??
Read the post. Yes, the absolute amount means more "to the victims", but so what? That wasn't the subject of the post. Rather, it seemed more to whine about how unfairly6 we are being judged in this issue, that certain Muslim countries were allegedly more stingy that we are. I won't waste my time repeating how any comparison should be made for it to mean anything.
We need to give more tsunami aid. By that I mean we need to help create additional tsunamis. They are our best ally in the war on islam.
Yes, but it's a concept stolen and incorporated into Islam by Mohammed: Muslims must give 1/40th of their income in charity. (Very shrewd--he picked what turns out to be the average level of giving when a tithe is not enforced by social pressure or force of law.)
The question is why so little of this 1/40th of the income of all the oil sheiks is not being directed toward the tsunami victims, many of whom are even Muslims.
Incidentally, I noticed on Netscape's news site that a formula-one racing driver has tied the Saudi and Omani goverment's contributions out of his own pocket.
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