Europe aids an ocean of refugees, where's Islam's charity?

[icehorse]

I've asked many times on this forum what Islam has to offer, and I've been told quite often that a core tenet in Islam is charity.

Why aren't Muslim majority countries coming to the aid of their fellow Muslims in the current refugee crisis?

 

[Lyndon]

20% of Jordans population is Syrian refugees, Europes only .07% Syrian refugees.

 

[icehorse]

20% of Jordans population is Syrian refugees, Europes only .07% Syrian refugees.

Why aren't the rich OPEC countries lending a hand?

(Also, Lyndon, cleaner math would make your post seem more sincere)

 

[Lyndon]

Probably because they have their own problems, what with ISIS being a threat in almost all their countries.

 

[MD]

Because most of the Gulf countries do not give a ****, and Europe does. I do worry however that if millions of refugees flood Europe year after year the countries will collapse from all this social pressure not to mention the growing friction between a fast growing Muslim minority and a secular declining majority.

Edit: A lot of smugglers were controlled by Gaddafi, he put them in place and executed many. Just like groups like ISIS were controlled by Assad and the shia fanatics were controlled by Saddam, they're all free to roam now. The West has to stop spreading democracy through wars which do nothing more than to destabilize the world.

 

[icehorse]

Probably because they have their own problems, what with ISIS being a threat in almost all their countries.

So your logic is: "Muslims are charitable unless it's inconvenient" ?

 

[Iti oj]

So your logic is: "Muslims are charitable unless it's inconvenient" ?

is that different than any one else

 

[sun rise]

What good is America since we take in so few refugees. It proves America does not have much to offer the world. (just extending the logic of the argument). And clearly being wealthy does not offer much to the world either. It's better to be poor and generous:

Last year, UNHCR’s Global Trends 2013 report showed that developing countries hosted 86 percent of the world’s refugees, and that nearly half of the refugees under UNHCR’s mandate lived in countries where the GDP per capita was less than USD $5,000.

http://www.unhcr-centraleurope.org/...lds-poorest-countries-host-most-refugees.html

 

[vaguelyhumanoid]

I know that homeless Muslims are encouraged to sleep at mosques. Somehow Christian churches don't do that even though the center of Jesus' whole teaching was "don't be a dbag to poor people".

 

[Servant_of_the_One1]

In Turkey there are 1.6 million syrian refugees.
In Jordan 1.5 million Syrian Refugees.
In Lebanon 1 million Syrians.
In Egypt 300.000 Syrians.

Are Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon European countries?


U are right about the Gulf States. They are Dbags!
Bigger Dbags are the US! They sit back and enjoy how Syrians kill each other while they can finish off this war by bombing assad and isis .

 

[sun rise]

I know that homeless Muslims are encouraged to sleep at mosques. Somehow Christian churches don't do that even though the center of Jesus' whole teaching was "don't be a dbag to poor people".

There is as much variety in Christians as Muslims. I'm involved with a nonprofit that works with many Christian organizations. Some of them really do try to live up to the teachings of the Christ.

 

[SkylarHunter]

The likes of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, etc, don't give a crap about the value of human life. For them, their muslim "brothers" and "sisters" are only valuable if they have something to offer. If they need help, these countries will happily forget about that loving religion they like to advertise when convenient.

And if all those people die trying to get to safety and a better life, they will say it was Allah's will and they will be happy in paradise.

Since when do muslim authorities (and I'm not talking about individual normal common people here) care about other people? They're probably throwing a party not only because we're handling this huge problem here in Europe, even if badly, but also because with a bit of luck these people and all the ones to follow will one day transform our countries in the same kind of ***holes they fled from.

 

[Gharib]

Number of refugees/asylum seekers in Turkey - 1.7 million only Syrian.

Turkey

Hungary

Hungary erecting a fence to keep them out

 

[Gharib]

The only reason you hear about refugees in europe and not in Muslim countries is because we accept them, you don't and make it in the headlines. And if any country accepts a few thousand it's just made into such a big deal

 

[icehorse]

The only reason you hear about refugees in europe and not in Muslim countries is because we accept them, you don't and make it in the headlines. And if any country accepts a few thousand it's just made into such a big deal

The US has given - by far - the most aid of any country, nearly 3 billion, followed by the UK (~ $1B). While SA and the UAE have each given about $300M in aid, Amnesty International claims that Qatar, UAE, SA, Kuwait, and Bahrain, have offered "zero resettlement places to Syrian refugees".

 

[Godobeyer]

I've asked many times on this forum what Islam has to offer, and I've been told quite often that a core tenet in Islam is charity.

Why aren't Muslim majority countries coming to the aid of their fellow Muslims in the current refugee crisis?

Algeria host about 20,000 Syrian refuges

in General i estimated Algeria host about almost 0.5 million refugees from Africa (Niger,Mali) and Syria and Libya , Palestine, also Sahara occidental .

I guess Syrian refugee don't have many choices , since Jordan and Lebanon are poor countries , Saudi Arabia, Qatar ...are clear guilty in grow the civil war , so i know it's sensitive that Syrian go to Saudi Arabia .

EDITED
anyway Saudi Arabia will affraid the revenge
plus the weather in Europe is cooler , than kings of oil countries weather like hell ,can't host animals in summer how about humans when heat reach more than 50°.

personaly i prefer to go imagrate to Europe or North American than king of oil even if they Muslims because what i said above.

 

[Pastek]

I agree with what was said above, some muslim countries already accepted more refugees that they can help : Jordan & Lebanon had already the palestinian refugees now syrians and before Irakis.
Don't know much about Morrocco, Algeria said Godobeyer helped some people, Libya is in war, Tunisia accepted refugees from Libya but can maybe do more. Some muslim countries like Senegal, Mauritania etc i guess they are too poor to accept them.

For sure golf countries don't do anything for them exept sending some money.
I think that some countries in Asia like Indonesia or Malaysia can help (maybe some did).

 

[Smart_Guy]

Dunno much, but I heard Saudi Arabia holds at least hundreds of thousands of illegal Muslim Burmese refugees, allowed to stay because the country knows their situation in their own country, granted residence ID's little by little. It is known how those people are treated in their country. Any one knows about this? Where I live there are so many of them I see with my own eyes.

Not defending, not disagreeing with some of you, I'm just sayin'... as in saying, not super Sayan.

Edit: wait, Google says millions of them?

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

In Turkey there are 1.6 million syrian refugees.
In Jordan 1.5 million Syrian Refugees.
In Lebanon 1 million Syrians.
In Egypt 300.000 Syrians.

Well said.

And, of course, folks live @icehorse are always welcome to donate here if and when humanitarian concerns trump hatred and vitriol.

 

[Jumi]

Any sources, is this real or fake news?

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34083905

Many tell stories of the Turkish coastguard firing water cannon in an attempt to fill the boats and make them sink.