It is revealing that Muslim regimes in the Middle East that eagerly give billions to takfiri militants to kill fellow Muslims are completely silent about zionist killings of Palestinians.
During times of crises, Muslims naturally ask what the regimes in the Muslim world and indeed regimes in the rest of the world are doing to help the suffering people. The Zionist onslaught on Gaza has led to similar questions from Muslims. While the question is natural, the answer, sadly, is anything but satisfactory.
Ordinary Muslims are forced to ask this question because there are many problems confronting Muslims in different parts of the world. They feel deep sympathy for and empathy with them. While they want to express solidarity and help in whatever way possible, such help is limited in scope and impact. Individuals can at best donate money to a charity to help alleviate some suffering and/or participate in rallies to vent their anger and frustration at the ongoing injustices but these cannot resolve the basic problem. It is for governments to take action to stop aggression against Muslims and to institute policies that would ensure such crises do not erupt again.
The expectations of ordinary Muslims vis-à-vis the regimes spring from two diametrically opposite sentiments. The first is their genuine concern for fellow Muslims suffering anywhere in the world. The second is predicated on the assumption that the Muslim regimes can do something. This is a faulty assumption and empirical evidence from repeated crises has demonstrated this beyond doubt that such expectations are misplaced. With few exceptions, people in control of regimes in the Muslim world are agents of imperialism and Zionism; their overriding concern is self-preservation, not alleviating the suffering of oppressed Muslims. In fact, these regimes do not care for people in their own societies either so this should put to rest any notions that they would help Muslims elsewhere.
The suffering of Palestinian people facing a barbaric Zionist onslaught has moved Muslims worldwide, especially during the days of fasting in Ramzan. Seeing little children being blown to pieces on television screens has moved even non-Muslims to condemn Zionist barbarism, notwithstanding the support their regimes have extended to the illegal entity in Occupied Palestine. Most people are also aware that Gaza has been under an illegal siege since 2007 that has caused extreme hardship among Palestinians. Add to that the repeated Zionist attacks on the enclave destroying whatever infrastructure they have managed to build, naturally causes deep anguish.
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