Opinion: The Muslim world’s selective outrage over Israel By Raheel Raza and Mohammed Rizwan

Assassins creed... Two warring factions breed.... Ancient societies by deed..... Israel palestine conflict in seed.... When hatred planted like weed.... Selective outrage hatred borne out of greed.... Land dispute a cause of concern indeed - Loga

 

Selective Outrage

BCF : The pro-Hamas, pro-Palestine, anti-Israel rallies on the streets of Canada, the United States, Europe and the Middle East are nothing new. Ever since the creation of State of Israel in 1948, Arab politics has largely been defined by Palestinian question.

Listen to wise words from Imam Tawhidi.

The question for the rest of us is: what drives this sentiment? Is this expression of political support driven by sympathy and affinity for Muslims in Palestine? Is this a question of human and religious rights? Or is it a decades-long attempt to change a regional geopolitical situation that Arab rulers believe is unfairly tilted towards a lone Jewish state in a sea of Arab monarchies?

It is simply not the case that these demonstrations are an expression of solidarity for Muslim human and political rights, because one doesn’t see the instant outpouring of emotions, the pain and anger, when Muslim populations across various conflict zones and under various dictatorial regimes suffer far more atrocities than the Palestinians.

Take, for example, Iran. The theocratic regime in Iran has been running a reign of terror for nearly 45 years. Its record of torture and atrocities against its own people is well documented and well known.

Following the death of Mahsa Amini, who was killed for not wearing a proper hijab, we did not see widespread protests across the Muslim world. The government in Turkey even rounded up protesters who dared come out. In Iran, tens of thousands were arrested and some were sentenced to death. But the same governments encourage protests against Israel.

Now look at the case of Assad regime in Syria. More than 350,000 people have been killed in the Syrian Civil War, largely due to atrocities committed by the Assad regime and the Islamic State group. Yet there has been near-total silence from those who are now championing the Palestinian cause.

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