Muslim world hypocricy

[Civis Romanus sum]

There are two groups of desperate Muslim boat people at sea right this very moment. The lucky ones are off the coast of Europe, whose European Christian people have made a concerted effort to rescue them, feed, clothe and shelter them.

The unlucky ones were the ones trying to reach Muslim countries in southeast Asia. Their reception has been quite a bit different. They've been refused permission to land. Military vessels have warned them off, by gunfire when necessary. Indonesian fishermen have been warned not to pick up these refugees even if they're in the water and drowning, on pain of having their ships seized. Malaysia has closed its coat and warned any refugees they will be arrested, imprisoned and sent home to Burma.

What happened to that universal brotherhood the Muslim world is so famous for? Muslims in Canada, the US and the West have been willing to murder their fellow citizens out of outrage that our countries are harming Muslims in Afghanistan or Iraq. Every western embassy in the world, it seems, has to have protection from Muslim car bombs and suicide bombers because Muslims are furious at our mistreatment of them.

Do you think Indonesia has to worry about that? Or Malaysia? Or Syria or Sudan? Nobody is hijacking their planes or blowing up their embassies abroad. There are no thundering denunciations from the Muslim world about their abuse of human rights (maybe because there are no Muslim governments which respect human rights).

If a Jew accidentally bumps into a Muslim on the street the Muslim world is howling for blood, but if a Muslim cuts off another Muslim's head and dances around with it the Muslim world shrugs without care. Scores of resolutions condemning Israel are pushed through the UN every year by the Islamic block, allegedly because of their abuse of human rights. But every single Muslim nation on Earth abuses human rights. And non-government actors abuse it even more. All Muslim military groups rebelling against a government or fighting with each other are incredibly violent towards civilians and each other. Prisoners are routinely tortured and murdered, and women raped. And it doesn't matter if these rebels are in Africa, Asia, Western Asia or the Middle East. They are defined by their bloodthirsty actions against their fellow Muslims as if they are trying to outdo each other in barbarism.

So it seems to me the Muslim world's outrage is not so much based on any sort of brotherly love or sense of unity, but more a kind of machismo driven arrogance and pride of belonging such as we see in biker gangs and street thugs. Oh, the Hells Angels will kill each other and beat each other but let anyone else dare threaten one and they'll rush to defend that member. The same goes for street gangs. These young Muslim men expressing their outrage at Canada and other western nations out of a sense that they must protect their fellow Muslims never rise to do so against threats from within, only without. So their outrage isn't so much religious but mindless nationalistic bravado.

[Michael Hardner]

There's nothing in your post that we can pin anything to. Just generalities about 'the Muslim world' which, as we know from other discussions, can't be defended or proven in a way that's in any way satisfactory to anybody.

Also - you haven't provided any cite or link for a departure point for a discussion.

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