Sometimes I Just Don’t Get It
I rarely discuss religion in a public forum, but this needs to be addressed by everyone in the West – well at least in my opinion.
Right now 1/5 of Pakistan is under water and 97% of Pakistani people are Muslim. The country that is providing the most humanitarian aid is the USA and that is the best way to fight terrorism.
Really, if the West is seen as the good guys in this situation, they win the support of the masses over there, and that needs to be promoted.
Then it can be taken a step further. Just think if the US military allocated one minute of their annual defense budget towards education in an Islamic 3rd world country like Indonesia – they could provide quality education for every child for one year.
Sure we will never be able to stop the current Islamic extremists, they’ve already been brain washed or should I say suffer from a lack of education. BUT if the Western World were to educate the children, and show them the West are the ones who are in fact improving their lives they would over time, certainly have enough education to question some of the misleading or inaccurate age old doctrines that now, appear to go unchallenged.
And if you don’t think things will change with improved education, just look back at our Christian based history. In the 1950’s women here may not have worn hibayas, but they certainly weren’t treated as equals either. Check out the Guidelines for a 1950’s Housewife.
Oh ya one last thing. The Muslim people fighting for a mosque at Ground Zero in New York (if anything it does raise questions) are creating a great deal of negative press at a time that millions and millions of fellow Muslims in Pakistan don’t need it. Again it is the US (predominantly Christians) that comes to the aid of Muslims in crisis – just look back at the tsunami in Indonesia – the USA gave $902,000,000 where all Muslim countries together only gave $177,500,000.00 – not even one quarter.
This is a story I think needs to be told.
