Monday, September 18, 2006

VICTIM MENTALITY DEMONSTRATED

Muslim blogger Irfan Yusuf objects to Andrew Robb's contention that Muslims have a "victim mentality":
What victim mentality? Muslims don’t see themselves as victims. They just want to be treated the same as anyone else.
Yusuf in a post just the day before:
I would like to think that Muslim mobs had learnt from the PR disaster that accompanied protests against the Danish cartoons. On that occasion, corrupt and unelected Muslim leaders manipulated state-owned media and government-employed religious leaders to incite their masses into frenzies of violent futility.

As I type these lines, thousands of Muslims in the Darfur region of Sudan face certain death, whether by disease or starvation or bullets. Lebanese Muslims are struggling to rebuild their homes and their lives.

Muslims in Gaza are facing economic and social collapse. Muslims in Afghanistan face civil war as the Western-backed government struggles to defeat a Taliban militia we were led to believe was defeated years back.

Muslims in Pakistan are still suffering from the effects of the earthquake. Muslims across Asia continue to rebuild after the devastating tsunami. Muslims in Kashmir find themselves caught between fanatical militants and merciless Indian troops.
Nope, no victim mentality here.

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