On Arab indifference toward the Peshawar massacre

[beast89]

After my grandfather retired, he was sent by GOI to KSA to train you Arabs..you just have oil, no technical expertise no nothing...for which you need scientists and experts from all over the world to do stuff for you and train you...and this extends across various skill levels...from scientists like my grandfather to low skilled labour....and the subcontinent provides much of it as you get all of these at cheaper rates....you sell oil to your western masters and with that money pay others to do the actual work for you...and as they say,an idle mind is the devil's mind...from which your Wahabi ideals are spreading across the subcontinent like cancer.

they can't even train their syrian opposition fighters nor do they have the expertise or will to fight for their cause. All their modern buildings are western engineered and built by slave labour.

 

[salarsikander]

Hi,

While its unfortunate and sad at the same time that this massacred didnt get as much attention as we were expecting.
Secondly, as rightly pointed out it took arabs while to condemn it (which they did it eventually).
They have enough of the problems of their own!!!

There is no doubt its the influence of their twisted ideology, but are the really to be blamed??? or is it us and our policies that failed to monitor what's going on inside these madrassahs, I still remember the day about 10 or 12 years so when Sir Pervaiz Mushraf suggested that all Madrassas should be monitored and placed under supervision. But what did we do?? we went complete whacko and started saying that its Americas policy and why the hell should we place our sacred religious schools under supervision.....
Well, we can see the effects of not doing so, we literally have hundred of Lal masjids( red Masjid ) in our alleys across whole of Pakistan swarming with such extremist ideologies.

Blaming Arabs or Persian isnt going to help us, instead it will just further isolate ourselves and create fuel animosity.

Tell me how many of you would refuse to fund the construction of local Masjid ? ofc, only teeny tiny amount but rest would be more than happy to support it without knowing the fact that this money is being used by every Mullah to support his extremist agenda, we can never know unless we place them undersupervision and increase the level of qualification to become a local imam or Quranic teacher.

Trust me its no surprising to know that most of local imams are from criminals crooked background with little or mostly no educational background.

Lastly, about the support from Arab and Persians, lets just not act like we are ungrateful nation. At times both Arabs and Persians have helped us whenever they could.

We have to learn from our mistakes and move forward beyond mud slinging and putting blame on Arabs and persian though i would count Indians out, but we re not discussing about that here.

 

[FaujHistorian]

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/vie...ndifference-toward-the-Peshawar-massacre.html

On Arab indifference toward the Peshawar massacre

When news of the school massacre in Pakistan’s Peshawar first surfaced as breaking news, it appeared exaggerated and unreal. One’s mind is sometimes incapable of believing or rather rejects immediately recognizing that these are facts and that someone has really decided it’s time to collectively murder children in cold blood.

The students of the Peshawar military-run school were not coincidentally targeted. They did not get killed during a battle among fighters but they were the target of the attack and they were thus pursued in their classrooms, under their seats where they tried to hide.

Did the madmen of the Taliban movement really think that murdering these little souls is their way to heaven?
Is there anything worse for a parent to realize that their children’s most important gathering place - i.e. the school - has become their little ones’ graveyard?

Hours passed
The first few minutes and then hours passed as we waited for Arab media outlets to follow up on the Peshawar tragedy considering it’s firstly a humane catastrophe and secondly a Muslim one and it’s thus worthy of dedicating all live feed to report on it.

However, this didn’t happen. We were rather disappointed by the Arabic coverage of the crime and we switched to following up on the incident on the world’s different satellite channels.

Yes, the news was broadcast in Arab news segments, dailies and websites and the degree of interest in the news varied. But what appeared like the general pattern is that the tragedy did not take the attention which such a crime with this amount of drama deserves. It wasn’t only media outlets who didn’t perform their duties on the matter but the general Arab and Muslim public opinion was very cold regarding incident, not to mention lazy and numb. Hashtags on Twitter, for example, did not include the Peshawar school within the trending hashtags. The souls of 150 children killed in the name of Islam did not become material for Arab discussion even as the world all stood in solidarity, dedicated its media outlets coverage to the news and offered its condolences. Some even began to criticize the Western media’s interest in the case and categorized this coverage as targeting Islam.

Horrible tragedy
For some reason, the horrible tragedy of Peshawar students whom the Taliban criminals in Pakistan killed failed to interest the Arab media and public opinion as it should have.

Of course, the reason is not necessarily linked to the massacre but the problem lies in that deep defect within us. We scream and lose our temper over a caricature here and a song there. We, despite this, were not outraged that an organization like Taliban killed dozens of children.

What interprets our weak interest in this tragedy is tragic on its own. There are Muslims who killed Muslims so there’s nothing that interests us here. The murderer must not be Muslim in order for us to be outraged. Perhaps if the murderer had been Muslim and the victims were non-Muslims, we would’ve cared about what happened to Yazidi children or about what happened in the Russian school of Beslan ten years ago.

The stark truth is that those who kill Muslims are themselves Muslims. This is an ironic fact that does not seem to upset us!

This article was first published in Ahsarq al-Awsat on December 20, 2014.

What if they did.

Won't bring back 140 slain kids

What if they did not

Won't bring back 140 slain kids.


It is a Pakistani issue in the first minute

It is a Pakistani issue in the 100th hour

Unless Pakistanis figure their $hit out

No Arab, or Indian, or Irani, or Chinese statement can help.

So in the end I say, this essay is just plain bad and at worst $tupid.

 

[ghoul]

How can we blame Arabs for indifference when our own politicians and judiciary are the most indifferent to it out there? Imran Khan just announced another D-chowk protest on 17th January....

 

[marbella]

Ain't gonna happen as of now.
It is not Arabs or Persians for that matter that we need to forget or to remember.
It is the useless dream of Umma and political Islam, the promises of Khilafa that we need to forget forever.

We need to step away from religion, and away from the Arab Vs Ajam proxy war.
Seal our western border, and do not let people though without visa and registration.

As for my little boys
@al-Hasani is my little boy, whose ears I can pull as necessary
@Mosamania is a civilian

@Arabian Legend is missing these days for a reason I do not know.



Let me correct you little one.

When you come back from Denmark start counting

Who built the airport ?
Who built the road from your airport to your home
Who built your home ?
Who built the electricity system to your home ?
Who maintains your car that your ride to your home ?
Who provides, plumbing, electrician etc services in the home you live in ?
Who drills for oil ?
Who installed and keep running this telecom infrastructure that you use to post replies ?

Then come back and answer.

The people who did that, do not call for fancy stuff, but please give them credit for what they do.

and ask yourself the question, Do you talk to them the same as you talked to people in Denmark ?

you deserve a standing ovation for the last line. respect..

 

[beast89]

Only KSA should be singled out, they spread their toxic beliefs. I don't see Egypt or Libya or Yemen doing the same.