Lack of right education and employment:
The Root causes 1. Absolutist monarchies and presidents-for-life combined corruption with repression It was impossible for "imperialist" powers to do what they have done without the active collaboration of corrupt elites within these countries and in a specific cultural soil. 2. In Egypt alone, some 80 million net new jobs are required over the next 15 years just to keep pace with the population explosion. Same story of unemployment in many other Arab States. 3. All the Arab states together, with their combined population of 350 million, produce less in economic terms than Italy's 60 million people. Only three percent of the Libyan population works in the oil sector. What exactly did the rest of the population do? Official youth unemployment is at 26 percent in a rich oil-producing country like Saudi Arabia, while the unofficial rate in the countries of North Africa's Maghreb region lies at 70 percent. One third of the people of Mauritania and See more... Yemen, and one fifth of Egyptians, live on less than $2 a day. 4. The Syrian regime, born out of a coup, has, in the name of resistance to Israel, transformed into a repressive regime resembling a National Socialist society, where advancement is closed to all but the elite few. 5. The Arabs have taken to the streets without burning flags, but with extraordinary passion and generosity, and while employing peaceful means are demanding freedom and the recognition of their dignity. They know well that with freedom, comes bread. Hence they demand the removal of the autocrats, who have usurped their rights. 6. To be absolutely fair: There are certainly external pressures and there could also be marginal plots instigated and supplied from outside, and there is also pressure by the fundamentalists; but the protests in Syria -- as in other Arab countries -- are primarily a genuine movement of the people to claim democratic rights and social justice. I strongly feel that it is a big and serious responsibility of committed and well respected Muslim portals like yours to create the correct public opinion of Muslim Umma of the world towards the Arabian crisis. If your medium is going to care too much about individual Muslim opinions, freedom of speech, giving analysis on Libyan crisis and so on, and then make the Muslim individuals to decide on the best solution, it is not going to work effectively in forming a strong collective Muslim public opinion in unseating Autocrats Since Muslim nations, OIC, the Arab League el al are incapable of bringing the necessary regime change by dumping murderous tyrants into the dust bin history, whether we like it or not, we have to seek the support of other powerful non-Muslim nations which go along our line of thinking. Going back to my Iraq story. The newspapers that I used to read : Radiance, Impact, Crescent, Newsweek and so on brainwashed me to hate Saddam Hussein and support people like Ahmed Chalabi in killing Saddam Hussein for his crimes with the help of Munafiqs. What was the result? Ya Rabbi, it is far beyond any reader’s imagination how much I sobbed, regretted spending sleepless nights and I was devastated to see the Iraqi nation raped and ruptured by foreign forces and millions losing their lives. And then I realised my stupidity in supporting American actions in regime change and the Muslim media’s flaws. How the people of Iraq could have been saved if only Saddam had been in power, in spite of his weaknesses.
By Mohamed Ameen on Joshua Landis on Syrian Uprising, 4/30/2011 Posted... on 5/1/11
The Root causes 1. Absolutist monarchies and presidents-for-life combined corruption with repression It was impossible for "imperialist" powers to do what they have done without the active collaboration of corrupt elites within these countries and in a specific cultural soil. 2. In Egypt alone, some 80 million net new jobs are required over the next 15 years just to keep pace with the population explosion. Same story of unemployment in many other Arab States. 3. All the Arab states together, with their combined population of 350 million, produce less in economic terms than Italy's 60 million people. Only three percent of the Libyan population works in the oil sector. What exactly did the rest of the population do? Official youth unemployment is at 26 percent in a rich oil-producing country like Saudi Arabia, while the unofficial rate in the countries of North Africa's Maghreb region lies at 70 percent. One third of the people of Mauritania and See more... Yemen, and one fifth of Egyptians, live on less than $2 a day. 4. The Syrian regime, born out of a coup, has, in the name of resistance to Israel, transformed into a repressive regime resembling a National Socialist society, where advancement is closed to all but the elite few. 5. The Arabs have taken to the streets without burning flags, but with extraordinary passion and generosity, and while employing peaceful means are demanding freedom and the recognition of their dignity. They know well that with freedom, comes bread. Hence they demand the removal of the autocrats, who have usurped their rights. 6. To be absolutely fair: There are certainly external pressures and there could also be marginal plots instigated and supplied from outside, and there is also pressure by the fundamentalists; but the protests in Syria -- as in other Arab countries -- are primarily a genuine movement of the people to claim democratic rights and social justice. I strongly feel that it is a big and serious responsibility of committed and well respected Muslim portals like yours to create the correct public opinion of Muslim Umma of the world towards the Arabian crisis. If your medium is going to care too much about individual Muslim opinions, freedom of speech, giving analysis on Libyan crisis and so on, and then make the Muslim individuals to decide on the best solution, it is not going to work effectively in forming a strong collective Muslim public opinion in unseating Autocrats Since Muslim nations, OIC, the Arab League el al are incapable of bringing the necessary regime change by dumping murderous tyrants into the dust bin history, whether we like it or not, we have to seek the support of other powerful non-Muslim nations which go along our line of thinking. Going back to my Iraq story. The newspapers that I used to read : Radiance, Impact, Crescent, Newsweek and so on brainwashed me to hate Saddam Hussein and support people like Ahmed Chalabi in killing Saddam Hussein for his crimes with the help of Munafiqs. What was the result? Ya Rabbi, it is far beyond any reader’s imagination how much I sobbed, regretted spending sleepless nights and I was devastated to see the Iraqi nation raped and ruptured by foreign forces and millions losing their lives. And then I realised my stupidity in supporting American actions in regime change and the Muslim media’s flaws. How the people of Iraq could have been saved if only Saddam had been in power, in spite of his weaknesses.
By Mohamed Ameen on Joshua Landis on Syrian Uprising, 4/30/2011 Posted... on 5/1/11
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