Reading this piece from Robert Fisk amazed me that Muslims have dropped, & keep dropping, in a hole with no bottom. 3 of the first 4 paragraphs will confound you beyond your beliefs (I challenge you if you don't get confused with who is bombing whom). Muslims, who apparently follow Islam, killing each other, without showing any mercy, & mercy was the way of the beloved Prophet. They are not all bombing ISIS, but also bombing each other, like Egyptians bombing Libyans, & Saudis bombing Yemenis.
What's the point of praying taraweehs all Ramadan or reciting Quran with a very beautiful voice (because, that's very much mandatory ... sarcasm)?
What happened to the sanctity of a Muslim's blood?
How low is the value of blood of a Muslim?
But, hey, we, Muslims, gotta ask Snapchat to show the world how peaceful we Muslims are, by showing Mecca live all around the world, even though, the country where Mecca is located (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) is indiscriminately spilling the blood of innocent Yemeni Muslims (just because, those Muslims are Shia).
And as this piece points out, who is rolling in the cash with all these indiscriminate bombings: the true "Lords of War"; weapons-manufacturers & defense companies. Companies, like Lockheed Martin, BAE, Raytheon etc. And, we, Muslims, are letting them do that to us.
I don't know what to cry about anymore: the state of Muslims' physical situation or how the West has made us Muslims blind to the fact that how we are completely willing to follow where & how the West leads us.
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The Saudis are bombing Yemen because they fear the Shia Houthis are working for the Iranians. The Saudis are also bombing Isis in Iraq & the Isis in Syria. So are the United Arab Emirates. The Syrian government is bombing its enemies in Syria & the Iraqi government is also bombing its enemies in Iraq. America, France, Britain, Denmark, Holland, Australia & ... Canada are bombing Isis in Syria & Isis in Iraq, partly on behalf of the Iraqi government (for which read Shia militias) but absolutely not on behalf of the Syrian government.
The Jordanians & Saudis & Bahrainis are also bombing Isis in Syria & Iraq because they don’t like them, but the Jordanians are bombing Isis even more than the Saudis after their pilot-prisoner was burned to death in a cage. The Egyptians are bombing parts of Libya because a group of Christian Egyptians had their heads chopped off by what might – notionally – be the same so-called Islamic State, as Isis refers to itself. The Iranians have acknowledged bombing Isis in Iraq – of which the Americans (but not the Iraqi government) take a rather dim view. And of course the Israelis have several times bombed Syrian government forces in Syria but not Isis (an interesting choice, we’d all agree).
It amazes me that all these warriors of the air don’t regularly crash into each other as they go on bombing & bombing. ...
The sectarian & theological nature of this war seems perfectly clear to all who live in the Middle East – albeit not to our American chums. The Sunni Saudis are bombing the Shia Yemenis & the Shia Iranians are bombing the Sunni Iraqis. The Sunni Egyptians are bombing Sunni Libyans ... & the Jordanian Sunnis are bombing Iraqi Sunnis. But the Shia-supported Syrian government forces are bombing their Sunni Syrian enemies & the Lebanese Hezbollah – Shia to a man – are fighting the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s Sunni enemies, along with Iranian Revolutionary Guards & an ever-larger number of Afghan Shia men in Syrian uniforms.
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And then, of course, there are the really big winners in all this blood, the weapons manufacturers. Raytheon & Lockheed Martin supplied £1.3bn of missiles to the Saudis only last year. But 3 years ago, Der Spiegel claimed the European Union was Saudi Arabia’s most important arms supplier & last week France announced the sale of 24 Rafale fighter jets to Qatar at a cost of around £5.7bn. Egypt has just bought another 24 Rafales.
It’s worth remembering at this point that the Congressional Research Services in the US estimate that most of Isis’s budget comes from “private donors” in ... Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE & Kuwait.
But blow me down if the Yanks are back to boasting. More than a decade after “Mission Accomplished”, General Paul Funk (in charge of reforming the Iraqi army) has told us that “the enemy is on its knees”. Another general close to Barack Obama says that half of the senior commanders in Isis have been liquidated. Nonsense. But it’s worth knowing just how General Pierre de Villiers, chief of the French defence staff, summed up his recent visits to Baghdad & Iraqi Kurdistan. Iraq, he reported back to Paris, is in a state of “total decay”. The French word he used was “decomposition”. I suspect that applies to most of the Middle East.
What's the point of praying taraweehs all Ramadan or reciting Quran with a very beautiful voice (because, that's very much mandatory ... sarcasm)?
What happened to the sanctity of a Muslim's blood?
How low is the value of blood of a Muslim?
But, hey, we, Muslims, gotta ask Snapchat to show the world how peaceful we Muslims are, by showing Mecca live all around the world, even though, the country where Mecca is located (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) is indiscriminately spilling the blood of innocent Yemeni Muslims (just because, those Muslims are Shia).
And as this piece points out, who is rolling in the cash with all these indiscriminate bombings: the true "Lords of War"; weapons-manufacturers & defense companies. Companies, like Lockheed Martin, BAE, Raytheon etc. And, we, Muslims, are letting them do that to us.
I don't know what to cry about anymore: the state of Muslims' physical situation or how the West has made us Muslims blind to the fact that how we are completely willing to follow where & how the West leads us.
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The Saudis are bombing Yemen because they fear the Shia Houthis are working for the Iranians. The Saudis are also bombing Isis in Iraq & the Isis in Syria. So are the United Arab Emirates. The Syrian government is bombing its enemies in Syria & the Iraqi government is also bombing its enemies in Iraq. America, France, Britain, Denmark, Holland, Australia & ... Canada are bombing Isis in Syria & Isis in Iraq, partly on behalf of the Iraqi government (for which read Shia militias) but absolutely not on behalf of the Syrian government.
The Jordanians & Saudis & Bahrainis are also bombing Isis in Syria & Iraq because they don’t like them, but the Jordanians are bombing Isis even more than the Saudis after their pilot-prisoner was burned to death in a cage. The Egyptians are bombing parts of Libya because a group of Christian Egyptians had their heads chopped off by what might – notionally – be the same so-called Islamic State, as Isis refers to itself. The Iranians have acknowledged bombing Isis in Iraq – of which the Americans (but not the Iraqi government) take a rather dim view. And of course the Israelis have several times bombed Syrian government forces in Syria but not Isis (an interesting choice, we’d all agree).
It amazes me that all these warriors of the air don’t regularly crash into each other as they go on bombing & bombing. ...
The sectarian & theological nature of this war seems perfectly clear to all who live in the Middle East – albeit not to our American chums. The Sunni Saudis are bombing the Shia Yemenis & the Shia Iranians are bombing the Sunni Iraqis. The Sunni Egyptians are bombing Sunni Libyans ... & the Jordanian Sunnis are bombing Iraqi Sunnis. But the Shia-supported Syrian government forces are bombing their Sunni Syrian enemies & the Lebanese Hezbollah – Shia to a man – are fighting the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s Sunni enemies, along with Iranian Revolutionary Guards & an ever-larger number of Afghan Shia men in Syrian uniforms.
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And then, of course, there are the really big winners in all this blood, the weapons manufacturers. Raytheon & Lockheed Martin supplied £1.3bn of missiles to the Saudis only last year. But 3 years ago, Der Spiegel claimed the European Union was Saudi Arabia’s most important arms supplier & last week France announced the sale of 24 Rafale fighter jets to Qatar at a cost of around £5.7bn. Egypt has just bought another 24 Rafales.
It’s worth remembering at this point that the Congressional Research Services in the US estimate that most of Isis’s budget comes from “private donors” in ... Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE & Kuwait.
But blow me down if the Yanks are back to boasting. More than a decade after “Mission Accomplished”, General Paul Funk (in charge of reforming the Iraqi army) has told us that “the enemy is on its knees”. Another general close to Barack Obama says that half of the senior commanders in Isis have been liquidated. Nonsense. But it’s worth knowing just how General Pierre de Villiers, chief of the French defence staff, summed up his recent visits to Baghdad & Iraqi Kurdistan. Iraq, he reported back to Paris, is in a state of “total decay”. The French word he used was “decomposition”. I suspect that applies to most of the Middle East.
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