I mean no disrespect to any group of people. As it is, the Arabs of today, located in all these Arab countries between Morocco and Bahrain, have proved themselves to be politically incompetent. That's not to say other Sunni majority countries are politically successful but given that all these Arab countries at least understand each other better than any country outside the Arab world because of their linguistic and religious ties, given that these Arabs are in possession of some of the largest sources of hydrocarbons, solar energy, oldest civilizations and endowed with the true religion, the successful merger/union of Arab countries into an independent, potent force that would solve all its problems on its own and beyond, beside extending help and influence to regions beyond its world would have been an expected outcome.
In reality, Arabs like to think of other Arabs (or whoever else gets cozy with them) as enemies. That's why not a single Arab country has officially threatened USA, UK, or any Western power for all their atrocities against Arabs in the last 100 years. Not a single Arab country is even capable of developing any major military hardware on its own because they are not capable of cutting ties with the USA and the West.
There are certainly much poorer and more backward countries around the world than the Arab countries but it is doubtful if there are any group of people who are so incapable of deciding their own fate as the Arabs today. Most of them, from Jordan to Saudi Arabia to Algeria to Morocco and Syria, would be murdered if they utter anything against Americans that their regime does not like. Millions of Egyptians participated in a memorable revolution but they failed, which again shows Arabs in a bad light. Could they not have killed and smashed the heads of all Egyptian politicians and military officers that continue to shake hands with Americans and so called 'Israelis'? Were the Egyptians really that naive to believe that peacefully protesting against a single person would be enough to eliminate American control? What a shameful state are they in! And they are perhaps the most intellectually, culturally and in many other ways, the most accomplished groups of Arabs. Other Arab countries would probably fare even worse if they were to revolt. The result is Moroccans, Jordanians, Saudis and others are not even revolting, because they do not have the means to organize themselves.
The part in bold is the most significant aspect about Arabs, all 350 million or so Arabs today. They have not been able to organize themselves well to attain their political objectives at any level, whether you talk about Arab dictators, or Arab political parties, or Arab militaries, or militant factions, or freedom fighters, or entrepreneurs or so on.
Again, this is not to dishonour or to shame the Arabs because I want and like to see Arabs and all other Muslims as strong as a political block, as scientific powerhouses, as economies and in religion. The Arabs today have mostly abandoned their strength in all of these factors because of their lack of organizational capability, more than any other reason, in my personal estimate. This factor is not restricted to Arabs alone but is most pronounced amongst Arabs.
For example, a country like Bangladesh, or Pakistan, could not rival or outdo China or Russia in the next 30 years because of various shortages including in their population sizes, educated population, number of scientists and researchers, land area, natural resources, enemy pressure/schemes and so on. Compared with this situation, the Arabs have plenty of natural resources, many times more scientists and researches, about twice the population of either Bangladesh or Pakistan, land area about the same size as Russia, a declared enemy like so called "Israel" which is tiny in everything from economy to population to military in comparison with the Arab world, and undeclared but real enemies like the USA (at which not a single Arab regime dares to point finger) which are thousands of miles away and only able to place themselves in the region because of Arab regimes' own decisions to backstab their own populations. Then, the Arabs also have considerably greater numbers of educated people, entrepreneurs, intellectuals, better infrastructure, in general, than either of these two countries. Yet, the Arabs have repeatedly failed to make use of these factors, and always resorted to fighting, quarrelling, distrusting, backstabbing each other.
Some people only blame the "Peninsula /Gulf" Arabs. During Gaddafi's 4 decades of rule over Libya, what did Libya do for Arabs in its neighbourhood? Did not Egypt and Libya talk about merger? Not only did Arabs realize it is beneficial for all of them to merge, but they planned on doing so numerous times. All these plans failed all the time because of their leaders' intransigence. Gaddafi wanted to be the leader of "Libya+Egypt", while Egyptian leaders would not accept this. Same was the result when Syria and Egypt merged.
I hope our Arab brothers would not be personally offended, and I think most Arabs, if not in public, at least in private, would agree with most of my observations. Still, I would not mind to hear any inputs from Arab and informed non Arabs on the issue. Finally, it is my wish to see strong, determined Arabs solving their problems and merge with the entire Muslim world to form the Islamic Khilafah.
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