Danes are not protesting. Danish Muslims are not protesting. Foreign Muslims are.
They are in a veru delicate position living in that country and I can imagine must fear "retribution" in one form or another - but irrespective majority Muslims have been offended by these cartoons. The issue would have died by now since the newspaper issued an apology, but now it goes on because others are publishing those same cartoons - so obivioulsy the Danish newspaper allowed them permission. So the apology was only a cover up.
Its a whole debate on its own which seems to be going on in every thread it seems lol.
You are still not making a distinction between someone who goes to the Middle East for business purposes (and usually does everything possible to avoid the locals) and someone who goes there to live because they want to.
You are also not taking into consideration that not everyone migrates to the west - majority figures are either students, tourists or visiting family etc. That being said the working part also contributes to the balance I was talking about and is taken into consideration as well. As for people living there, I personally know of many American Reverted sisters who shifted to : Saudia Arabia, Kuwait, Turkey, Pakistan, Morocco. I also know of Reverted Bros who shifted to Malaysia, Pakistan, Saudia Arabia. And these are only a few people I have known personally and met on the net.
Other explanations that may also exist as to why people dont move there as much as they do to the west is because of:
- Political stability
- Developing Nation Status
- Low Standard of Living
But then again I dont want to make this into a very huge discussion otherwise we would have idealogies such as "dependency theory" etc etc. From politics. Which argue that for capitalism to thrive it needs to have poverty and restlessness in some part of the world so that it can get cheap labour and goods production.
But lets not go there since that will be too big a debate on its own!
Which is another issue. Besides, much the same applies to the Muslims too except the Europeans left the locals much better off.
Well on the contorary - Even the jewels in the Queens Sceptre and Crown are made from the Biggest Jewel in the world stolen from India. So they didnt leave them off better - they were driven off and had to withdraw because of political unrest on all avenues. And I would not say they left them better off at all - they left them with leaders - constitutions and systems which were all designed to have them "loyal" to the British even after independance. They conveniently named it the "Common Wealth". But many see how this is a subtle control mechanism left behind by the British for one. Furthermore if Islamic nations try and have Islamic rulership and laws sddenly they are donned with the "terrorist nation" status. Which is plain and simple supression. Its either "their" way or "no way"
Singapore is richer than Britain. It started off worse off than Malaysia. South Korea was as poor as Pakistan in 1965 (when Pakistan included Bangladesh). It is now in the OECD. At some point you will have to accept colonial rule was 50 years ago. A lot has changed. Except in parts of the Muslim world.
Singapore, Germany, Japan, North Korea, Isreal these are nations whose economies were literally built up by the west. They cannot serve as examples at all since they had no responsibility for defence expenditure, or any military expenditure at all. Do the same for any nation around the world u wil get the same results.
Countries like Pakistan, Turkey, etc have had to build on their own block by block - and they seems to be well on their path to progress. Now if you took a huge army put it in defence of these countries - invested heavily n their industry and let them sit back and relax I am sure you would see similar if not better results.
So you cannot compare "fake ecnomies" to "real ones" fake ones being which were simply given to them on a silver platter.
I do my share of reading history. Muslims probably took as many Black slaves as the Europeans did. But the British suppressed the slave trade in the end. What does it all mean?
On the controrary Muslims were commanded to liberate slaves. So even though a very small % of them may have had slaves who were treaded ill, but in majority Muslims did not have slaves and neither were they treated like animals. But in the west the slavery was all about treating the Africans like animals for many many years. Where they were made to work and treated in the worst imaginable conditions.
Well there are strict immigration laws in the West to keep the Third World out for one thing. Most people are happy where they are. But few people want to move to any Muslim country and by and large they do not do so. Few people go to the West and then return. Everyone in Saudi does - partly because the Saudis make them of course.
well the interesting thing is that the Sociological studies I mentioned pointed out some things as follows:
- People who return often do so due to family ties
- People who return often do so because of culture differences
- Returning people : Unable to fit in
- Returning people: Nationalistic identity
- Returning: land or valuables back home which were inherited giving them a new start in their home nations
Peopel who decide to stay are in majority:
- People who integrated and adopted western values
- Unabe to return home due to political unrest, etc
- People who started their own families there
- People who started their own businesses and met success
- People frustrated with level of services back home
Now I dont remember them all but what is very interesting enough is that my teacher was an American who had initially challenged the whole class on the question, "Do you think everyone wants to go to the west?"
Needless to say at the end of the Class she had presented enough evidence to everyone to show that infact this was a common myth that people assume. Not everyone wants to go to the west - infact the majority of people stay in their home nations.
I just say tha even I used to think the same that everyone wants to go to the west, ut in fact the reality of numbers shows that the number of immigrants is far less than most countries want. Take Canada for example - they desperately need immigrants because currently their "working age group" of people has reached an alarming age of "40+" so they need younger professionals in many feilds.
Same way in the USA they NEED people to come to the USA to offer more working professionals etc. As you already may know US is a huge country where land outweighs number of people.
So as funny as it may sound - the argument of "you foreigners stay home" is actually not supported by governments of western nations because its a case of "demand of labour and skilled professionals" which the west often finds hard to find inside its own borders to satisfy its needs.
Anyways to the original thread starter, just a small correction - The greeting is not Saleem (unless thats your name and ur signing it)
The correct greeting is "Salam" which means "Peace"