Follow the money
Growing up in a community and a world where everyone around you is Muslim and all the people have a biased view of the world around them. Even the government mandated books in the school were also biased (to a certain degree). When I came here to the US it really opened my eyes to reality, the fact that there were so many things in this world that were different than what I had previously thought.
One of those things was the living conditions in the Palestinian world. I always thought that the Muslim countries were the ones that were helping them out, that it was us who was providing for the palestinians. But recently in all the news due to the victory of Hamas, it turns out that most of the aid that is provided comes from countries and places that are purely hated by the muslim countries like the US and even Israel. I was dumbfounded when I learned that.
When you go to mosques and you listen to the scholars, as they tout the freedom remarks for the palestinians, I wouldn't have thought in a million years that the moneys were coming from these countries (and a big portion was also coming from Europe). I refused to believe it at first, you know the denial phase, but the more I think about it the more it makes sense. We always are a very aggressive nation. We always believe in the fact that if we take out a revolutionary march outside some offices and embassies, and we think that its our sign of solidarity with the people over there, but we have really and truly forgotten the plight of the people over there. No one really cares about them (including me). We have forgotten as to how they are surviving, and they are taken care by the people whom the muslim world people truly hate. How ironic.
One of those things was the living conditions in the Palestinian world. I always thought that the Muslim countries were the ones that were helping them out, that it was us who was providing for the palestinians. But recently in all the news due to the victory of Hamas, it turns out that most of the aid that is provided comes from countries and places that are purely hated by the muslim countries like the US and even Israel. I was dumbfounded when I learned that.
When you go to mosques and you listen to the scholars, as they tout the freedom remarks for the palestinians, I wouldn't have thought in a million years that the moneys were coming from these countries (and a big portion was also coming from Europe). I refused to believe it at first, you know the denial phase, but the more I think about it the more it makes sense. We always are a very aggressive nation. We always believe in the fact that if we take out a revolutionary march outside some offices and embassies, and we think that its our sign of solidarity with the people over there, but we have really and truly forgotten the plight of the people over there. No one really cares about them (including me). We have forgotten as to how they are surviving, and they are taken care by the people whom the muslim world people truly hate. How ironic.
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