How strange is the fact that today we cannot name even a single peaceful and prosperous Muslim country throughout the world. The Muslims are being butchered slaughtered and massacred sometimes in the name of racial and dogmatic discrimination by the Non Muslim extremists and sometimes by their own fellow religious beings in the name of fundamentalism. Just cast a look at Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Egypt, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and ultimately at Pakistan; everywhere the Muslim blood seems the cheapest and the most easily available commodity. From USA, UK to India and from Sri Lanka, Nepal, China to Burma, we have a long list of countries where the Muslim are in minority but they are facing the same fate everywhere whether they are in minority or majority. It means the fault lies with the Muslims not with the rest of the religious communities. Instead of lamenting over their butchering and slaughtering, the Muslims must try to analyse and review their own role regarding this gruesome state of affairs. It is very much true that the anti-Muslim extremist forces are extraordinarily active and vibrant in their hostility against the Muslims but the Muslims have their own drawbacks and demerits too. They lack unity, co-operation and the most important traits like endurance, tolerance and patience. The worst example of their indifference to each other and their selfish attitude could be seen with reference to the recent bloodshed of Muslims in Burma. It is criminally ironical that the whole of the Muslim world is continuously in a state of oblivion over this massacre of innocent helpless Muslims at the hands of the Buddhist and the Hindu extremists. Mass killing of Muslim minority in Burma, the enforced conversion of the Burman Muslims into Buddhists, subjecting them to all sorts of violence and harsh treatment and depriving them of all fundamental human rights are the things which are being taken as petty matters by the Muslim world. Might be the Muslim rulers have more important and urgent things to do than protesting on this bloodshed in Burma.
PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER,
Multan, August 6.