Friday, March 11, 2005

The Petro Dollars and Arab Generosity

Bill Gates tops the Forbes list once again. He is worth some 44billion$. I will firmly believe he will top the list of philantropists too. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the world richest foundation carrying out work of immense priority all over the world. And most of the money for this foundation comes from Bill Gates himself. This is a commendable job, though I don't approve of all his business tactics though. As a person he is doing his part in a major way to improve the quality of life of people in all possible ways from health to education. I don't exactly know how many billionaires do this kind of charity. In general Americans do throw money for charity work in a big way. Its a fact. So do the European countries and most importantly the scandinavian countries who honour their committed percentage of GDP for global human causes. And the list of rich countries do not stop right here. We have our oil rich countries in the Gulf. I belive they haven't heard the word "charity" in their lives. May be they are not taught about it in the world class Madarasas. How can you sit on an ever growing pile of cash of billions of dollars and not ever think of improving the quality of human life, atleast in the muslim world? Saudi Arabia was the major underwriter of the 7billion$ Yom Kippur war of 1973. The same kindgom funded the Mujahideens in Afghanistan, madarasas all over the world for that matter get the petro dollars in one form or the other. What do these islamic schools teach? Hatred. Hatred for anything and everything they don't believe in. Everyone has hatred or atleast intolerance in a lighter sense, towards so many things. What do they hate, rather than listing what they hate, in the simplest way, hatred to what the entire world believes as humanity, generosity, kindness, benevolence, compassion, magnanimity, mercy, goodwill and what not. Say anything good, they hate it. Where in the whole world do you have schools to teach hatred?

Humanitarian response to the 2004 Tsunami is as follows, the link.
Look for, or basically do a microscopic search for the Arab countries to find about their generosity. And more importantly what else do these people have to offer the whole world interms of expertise. When a calamity strikes they neither donate money they have nor they have any expertise to offer. Sorry to say they lack expertise, they can fund wars, terrorists and spread hatred. They can share their expertise in slaughtering the basic human rights. When the entire world believed the way Indonesians are helped during Tsunami would dispell partially the hatred of Islamic towards non muslims, the Arab world never reciprocated. They missed their opportunity, I suspect if they ever saw one in that or the need.

Have they ever helped anyone on the humanitarian grounds? They need to realise what humanity is by the way for that to happen. I don't see that happening, do you?

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