The OPEC nations give almost nothing to aid, according to UNCHR. So much for aid to widows and orphans, one of the 5 pillars of islam.
I wrote this the other night. This event has really been on my mind.
While the people plead for food, the junta is handing out TV sets
Saturday, May 10, 2008 10:49:56 PM · 16 of 17
combat_boots to LeoWindhorse
“If you’ve been searching the news updates, the magnitude of indifference on the part of the dicatorship is astonishing. Tons and tons of aid just off shore, US carriers, medicines, other countries (except the Arabs, of course, save for Dubai & Kuwait), and the military is drinking tea, playing cards and watching while folks cast ‘yes’ votes (only). One story spoke of aid trucks being driven just out of sight and abandonned. Another story spoke of 7 aid workers being allowed in. Big whoop.
Another story speaks of an entire generation of childrem being lost. Bodies being washed out to sea, only to be washed back in on the waves....drinking fetid water...and eating rotting rice and bananas.
Even China is doing almost nothing to sway this band of merry makers, the junta....what, to kill off the Burmese so the Chinese can move in and run the natural gas business and rice exports?
Gives you pause, thinking that while we sleep, all those people are losing hope, getting dysentary, dengue fever or malaria. Pretty soon, even experienced aid workers will not be able to help nearly as much as they might have, even in the country whose health care system is second to last, with Sierra Leone being in last place.
The whole story has really hit me. People wanting to help, waiting on the tarmack, and the government wants to hold an election—while 100s of thousands are dying or dead, many still lying in the open in sweltering, tropical areas that are difficult to reach.”
We need to keep this event front and center in speaking with/evaluating those politicians who want to negotiate with our enemies or hand out trade agreements to governments like this.
“The OPEC nations give almost nothing to aid, according to UNCHR. So much for aid to widows and orphans, one of the 5 pillars of islam.”
Oh, they will give aid to other muslims. Non-muslims are not really people.