Tidak ada "Teman" yang ada adalah "Kepentingan"...
Yang menggagas KTT Tsunami itu siapa ya? Saya rasa itu 'pesanan' -bukan gagasan orisinil - jadi yang diundang pun tergantung pemesan........ ----- Original Message ----- From: Mohammad-Riyadi Tampubolon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 2:03 pm Subject: RE: [ekonomi-nasional] OOT: When Muslims suffer, it's the West that helps out > > Teman sejati mestinya tampak pada saat kita sedang mengalami > kesulitan..Bukan malah menjatuhkan mental hingga "mengemis" untuk > memohon bantuan > yang sebenarnya merupakan hak kita dan kewajiban mereka yang telah > lamamenikmati rente ekonomi selama ini.. > -----Original Message----- > From: A_Dharmawan [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 1:54 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [ekonomi-nasional] OOT: When Muslims suffer, it's > the West > that helps out > > > Mungkin tidak "seburuk" yang kita sangka... > Masalahnya...memang kita tidak bisa mengalahkan "Propaganda" > darai para > "West" dengan kehebatan Jaringan Informasinya.... > > /agung > > > Negara-negara Islam Kecewa Tak Diundang KTT Tsunami > Senin, 10 Januari 2005 | 22:48 WIB > > TEMPO Interaktif, Jakarta:Negara negara Islam dan Arab > menyayangkan sikap > Pemerintah Indonesia yang tidak mengundang mereka dalam KTT > Special ASEAN > yang membahas pasca gempa bumi dan tsunami di Aceh, di Jakarta > Cenvention Center. �Mereka menyampaikan kekecewaannya pada > saya,�ujar Wakil Ketua > Pengurus Pusat Muhammadiyah Din Syamsuddin Senin (10/1) di Jakarta. > > Padahal, menurut Din, negara-negara Islam paling banyak menyumbang. > Pemerintah Kerajaan Arab Saudi telah memberikan bantuan hibah > US$ 30 juta > sementara dana masyarakat yang disampaikan Raja Fahd lebih dari > Rp 1 > Trilyun. �Ini bukan pinjaman atau cek yang sulit > dicairkan,�tegasnya. > Negara-negara Pakistan, Turki dan Uni Emirat Arab, menurut Din, > telah menyatakan kesediaannya untuk menanggulangi anak-anak yatim > piatu baik > pengasuhan maupun pendidikannya. Saat ini mereka telah > menyediakan tanah > di > Jakarta yang jika Pemerintah RI menyetujui akan dibangun kompleks > pendidikan, asrama, pesantren bagi 4.000 anak yatim piatu korban > musibah Aceh. �Ini sangat-sangat kongkrit,�ujar Din. > > KTT yang berlangsung 6 Januari tersebut dihadiri sepuluh negara > Aseanplus > Cina, Jepang, Korea Selatan, India, Srilanka, Maladewa, Australia, > Selandia > Baru, Kanada, Amerika Serikat, Uni Eropa, dan Komisi Eropa serta > lembaga Internasional seperti PBB, WHO, Unicef, World Bank, ADB, > tak ada > perwakilan > ngara Arab dan Islam. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: sidqy suyitno [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 5:56 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ekonomi-nasional] OOT: When Muslims suffer, it's the > West that > helps out > > > > > Ass.ww. Salam sejahtera. Om Swasti astu. Amitabha. > > Artikel di bawah ini membuat kami sendiri yang juga muslim menjadi > prihatin > dan merasa harus segera berintrospeksi. Semoga bermanfaat. > > Salam, > > Sidqy LP. Suyitno > > > > > ===================================================================== > When Muslims suffer, it's the West that helps out[1] > > Peter Bergen[2] > > > > A failure of charity > > KABUL Around the Islamic world it is common currency that > Muslims are > perpetual victims of Western and Zionist conspiracies. The bill of > particulars includes the handling of prisoners at Guant�namo Bay, > Israel's > inequitable treatment of the Palestinians, and the deaths of > thousands of > civilians in Iraq - as a result first of United Nations > sanctions after > the > Gulf war, and more recently of the American occupation. The most > articulate > spokesman of such views is, of course, Osama bin Laden. > > Yet when Muslims are suffering, it is usually the West, and > often the > United > States, that takes the lead in helping. For instance, when the > SovietUnion > invaded Afghanistan in 1979, Washington mounted its largest > covert aid > program since Vietnam to help the Afghan resistance; when > Somalis were > starving in the early 1990s, President George H.W. Bush sent 25,000 > American > troops to help relief efforts; when Serbs were massacring Bosnian > Muslims in > the mid-1990s President Bill Clinton (belatedly) directed the > U.S. Air > Force > to bomb Serbian positions, which led to the Dayton accords. > > More recently, it was the United States that overthrew the > tyrannical government of the Taliban, a regime recognized only by > three Muslim > countries: Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates. > Otherthan > Turkey, no Muslim nation has sent troops to Afghanistan to help > stabilize the poorest country in the Islamic world (a few Muslim > states, including > Jordan, offered token deployments but were turned down). > > Now the same pattern - action by Western countries and inertia from > Muslim > states - can be seen in the efforts to provide relief for those > hardesthit > by the Indian Ocean tsunami. While 100,000 of the victims are > from Aceh, > the > most Islamic of Indonesia's provinces, Muslim countries are > contributinga > relative pittance. > > The oil-rich nation of Saudi Arabia is contributing the most: a > paltry$30 > million, about the same as what the Netherlands is giving and > less than > one-tenth of the contribution from the United States. And no Arab > governments participated in the conference in Jakarta on > Thursday where > major donors and aid organizations conferred over reconstruction > efforts. > This anemic effort on the part of the richest Islamic countries is > emblematic of a wider political problem in the Islamic world. > For all of > the > invocations by Muslim leaders of the ummah, or the global > community of > believers, they typically do little to help their fellow Muslims in > times of > crisis. > > Arab leaders and their toothless talking shops like the Arab > League and > the > Organization of the Islamic Conference are excellent at denouncing > problems > in Palestine and Iraq, but most stood silent as a million died > in the war > between Iraq and Iran during the 1980s. > > When President Hafez Assad of Syria massacred 20,000 people > after an > Islamist uprising in the city of Hama in 1982, there were no > expressionsof > outrage from the Islamic Conference. Egypt routinely tortures > political prisoners, untroubled by fears that other Arab leaders > will seriously > condemn such actions. > > Perhaps the generosity of Western countries will spur Islamic > states to > recognize that invocations of religious Muslim solidarity will > do little > to > feed the millions of Muslims who remain acutely vulnerable to > disease and > starvation in the aftermath of this enormous natural catastrophe. > > There have been a few positive signs in recent days. Spurred by > criticism, > Saudi state-run television organized a telethon this week that > raised private pledges of more than $75 million, and the Islamic > DevelopmentBank > has pledged $500 million. > > Much remains to be done, however. The Gulf countries that are > reaping a > bonanza from record oil prices should send a meaningful > percentage of > those > windfall profits to their fellow Muslims devastated by the tsunami, > rather > than lining the pockets of their ruling families. > > After all, zakat, the giving of charity, is one of the five > pillars of > Islam. > > > --------------------------------- > > [1] The New York Times Monday, January 10, 2005: > http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/01/09/opinion/edbergen.html > > > [2] Peter Bergen is a fellow of the New America Foundation and > an adjunct > professor at Johns Hopkins University�s School of Advanced > International Studies. > > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.825 / Virus Database: 563 - Release Date: 12/30/2004 > > > > Kampanye open-source Indonesia - http://www.DariWindowsKeLinux.com > Solusi canggih, bebas ikatan, dan bebas biaya > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------- > Yahoo! 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