"A Muslim is a brother of another Muslim, so he should not oppress him, nor should he hand him over to an oppressor. Whoever fulfilled the needs of his brother, Allah will fulfill his needs; whoever brought his (Muslim) brother out of a discomfort, Allah will bring him out of the discomforts of the Day of Resurrection, and whoever screened a Muslim, Allah will screen him on the Day of Resurrection . "
"Help your brother, whether he is an oppressor or he is an oppressed one. People asked, "O Allah's Apostle! It is all right to help him if he is oppressed, but how should we help him if he is an oppressor?" The Prophet said, "By preventing him from oppressing others."
Yes, I know that Muslims are supposed to be brothers of other Muslims. They should support each other, this is what Islam says. So, it seems, it is natural Pakistanis support Palestinians as opposed to Israelis or being neutral.
The problem is, this Ummah sympathy is not uniform. Muslims/Pakistanis, to the best of my knowledge, don't quote the following Muslim deaths with as much vigour as they do about the relatively minuscule Palestinian deaths. I doubt most of them even knows about these muslim deaths.
1. About 1900000 dead Muslims in Sudan
2. 200000 dead in Algeria,
3. Libya-Chad war, where 10000 died
4. Sunni shia deaths in Iraq about 100000+
5. Kurdish Muslim deaths by Turkey, about 35000 (official turkish stats) or 400000 (human rights estimate)
6. Tajikistan war, 50000 dead, 700k displaced
7. East Timor occupation and war - 200000 dead.
8. Finally, east pakistan genocide.
The above figures are many times higher than deaths in the
entire Arab israeli conflict. Most Pakistanis would also support China even though China is Taoist/Atheist and carries out human right abuses against Muslims (last Ramadan, there was a ban on fasting).
It's not imitation, then why would Westerners Russian Christians "imitate" Semitic people like prophets Essa, and Mosa? Do they like imitating Semitics? Non-Arab-Muslims follow Islam not Arabs, and the most important Islamic rule is that all Muslims are equal, that's why you see mainly black people convert to Islam, because it prohibits racism.
"All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over black nor a black has any superiority over white except by piety and good action."
The quote from Prophet Muhammad's last speech is a nice one. In theory, it should be like as you said. But unfortunately in practice, many pakistanis complain of being ill treated in Arab countries. I am not saying that they are, but this illustrates the friction between two group of Muslims. Ideally there should be no racism , but in reality it appears it
is present among Muslims.
In black September, about 1000 were killed from the Jordanian army, and 3000 from the Fedaeen. Arafat over exaggerated the causalities to get sympathy of Arabs. The more important fact that Black September was between Jordanian army and Fedaeen, half of Jordanian army were Palestinians and many of Fedaeen were Jordanians, and many leaders of Fedaeen who plotted against King Hussien were of Jordanian origins. It was an inevitable operation to restore peace and order to the country after it turned into a mosaic of warring militias and every militia had a different ideology.Maybe @500 knows that there is no Jordanian tribe that doesn't have relatives in Palestine and vice versa, they are one people and the closest ones. So, picturing it as a genocide is a base Zionist try to show that Arabs are worse in dealing with Palestinians, while it wasn't against them, lawless people are lawless and must be dealt with based on that not based on nationality or religion.
In many ways I agree with you. The figures by Abbas are probably overstated. When Fedayeens plotted against King Hussein, Jordan, being a monarchy, had a right to retaliate. Maybe it over-retaliated, but that's another debate. However, there is one big issue: Muslims do not have any problem with Jordan retaliating to anti state elements. However, when Israel, for example, retaliates to terrorist attacks, Muslims don't recognise the same right to Israel, although Israel's response is far tamer. In other words, Muslims don't recognise the right to
"lawless people are lawless and must be dealt with based on that not based on nationality or religion" for Israel.
Furthermore, Kuwait expelled all Arab country citizens which didn't oppose Saddam, including Yemenis, Jordanians, Palestinians, and Sudanese. It was an act of protest, but as for now, there are hundreds of thousands of Jordanians and Palestinians working in GCC and Kuwait.
The Palestinian authority supported Saddam, which is why about 450000 Palestinians were expelled. The opinion of PA were extended to the Palestinians in Kuwait, although many would've opposed Saddam:
Palestinian expulsion from Kuwait - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia . By international definition, this is considered ethnic cleansing. Many Arab citizens were expelled, but Palestinians were the most affected. However, Muslims don't condemn Kuwait as much as they do Israel.
How would it be if America expelled all Iraqis in the wake of Iraq war?
