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#1 [Permalink] Posted on 2nd September 2015 22:51
We have all seen the images and videos of refugees desperately trying to get in to the European countries after travelling through many countries by sea and road with children, elderly and sick in horrific conditions.

They have had to travel thousands of miles to get in to Europe but its frustrating and shocking that Gulf countries have not made any plans to house these refugees even if its just for short time until the war is over, it's not like they haven't got billions of dollars in reserves from oil & gas and empty deserts to build refugee camps.

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#2 [Permalink] Posted on 3rd September 2015 21:26
This post has been reported. It could be due to breaking rules or something as simple as bad use of bbcodes which breaks the page format. We will attend to this soon.
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#3 [Permalink] Posted on 3rd September 2015 21:31
The Shame Of The Gulf States Who Refuse To Offer Sanctuary To Syrian Refugees

Rivers of crocodile tears are flowing in the Arabic media as its writers waste ink feigning grief over the tragedy of the Syrian refugees who risk their lives on the sea or in refrigerated trucks in search of survival, writes Abdel Bari Atwan.

They are only seeking survival, not even a life of dignity, after everything they hold dear has been destroyed and squandered after many forces – both internal and external – have conspired to ruin their country and their lives… not to mention the hundreds of thousands who have been killed.

It is a great paradox that the Gulf States – who have most loudly boasted of their support for the Syrian people and spent billions on arming the opposition – are the most resistant to receiving refugees from Syria and have closed their doors in their faces. And these countries are immensely rich with huge sovereign funds.

Meanwhile, other, impoverished Arab states, have received hundreds of thousands of Syrians. Countries such as Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt, which are burdened with immense debts and budget deficits have opened their arms and sympathized with their plight.

Which of these countries we ask you are consistent with the values of Arabism and Islam and honour and compassion?


European countries

Several European countries have received hundreds of thousands of Syrians and provided them with aid and assistance, education and jobs. They have granted them citizenship and permanent residence after a few years in which they prepare themselves to adapt to their new communities.

Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, has been accepting more than 50,000 refugees every year, including 350,000 Syrian, emphasizing the international commitment to justice and humanity. Her Interior Minister, Thomas de Maser, has passed legislation designed to speed up processing refugees by making the system less bureaucratic.

In response, one of the “Islamic” channels has complained that Mrs. Merkel leads a Christian Party, and expressed the concern that those Syrians who find a safe haven in Germany will become Christians.

At the beginning of the crisis, journalists visiting the refugee camps in Jordan where Syrian families had fled in search of safety from bombs and shelling, told disgraceful tales of lecherous old wolves, their pockets swollen with money, prowling the camps with brokers of human flesh, in search of an underage girl to purchase. There are dozens of reports and documentaries which confirm what we say.

Syrian girls are turned into slaves, while their Government commits massacres and pours oil on the fire, not in the interest of the people of Syria, as it claims, but to avenge the hatred of the Syrian President.

Nor is President Assad the only one intent on the destruction of Syria; there is a great deal of evidence to suggest that foreign meddling is designed to fragment the country along sectarian fault lines.

Having seen the children of Syria drowning in the high seas or their decomposed remains frozen in trucks would you not expect to hear fatwas from our distinguished clerics like Qaradawi or al-Uraifi demanding that Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait rescue them? Aren’t they Muslims? Aren’t they also Sunni?

Germans “infidels” organize demonstrations against racism and demand that their Government receive Syrian refugees without restrictions or obstacles; we have witnessed football fans in the stands waving banners demanding the same thing… so why is it that our own most wealthy regional leaders cannot offer even a quarter of this help?


Gulf states

The Gulf States refuse citizens of other Arab nations basic medical care and education, so no wonder that they do not want Syrian immigrants… how could they host them?

Not only do they not wish to house these refugees but they are actively interfering in their country’s affairs, sending arms and money to destroy them and sow the seeds of sectarian strife, escalating the violence and the desperation of displacement.

How is it that they wish to “help” the Syrians at home but abandon them abroad? If you do not wish to honour the humane requirement for offering hospitality to these refugees, please cease your sinister meddling in their affairs. Or prove to us that we are wrong.

Nor is this crisis limited to Syria. The Saudi military intervention in Yemen will produce its own waves of refugees… where will they flee to and how? We are only asking, we know that we will not receive any answers, but insults and oaths as usual.

After the Kuwait war in 1991, some Iraqis sought refuge in Saudi Arabia, including soldiers and their families: what happened to them? They were placed in the Rafha camp in the middle of the desert, amid tight security and were prevented from leaving for over five years. Many were obliged to return in despair to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, most of them Shia Muslims who revolted against Saddam himself as history shows.

The Saudi authorities have paid hundreds of millions of dollars to UN and NGO refugee organizations which arrange for refugees to be accommodated in Western countries such as Sweden, Norway and Canada, and yet they will not allow any of them to stay in the Kingdom. By contrast, Riyadh was happy to welcome 1.5 million US soldiers to “liberate” Kuwait. This shows the difference between us and European Crusaders.

Years ago, I was invited to deliver several lectures in Canada, including one in the capital city of Ottawa; I was surprised by the large number of attendees who described themselves as “Kuwaitis”, and when I enquired as to why, they told me that they had emigrated to Canada during the crisis and obtained Canadian citizenship but still viewed themselves as Kuwaitis and remembered their country with nostalgia.

These duplicitous standards of the rich Arab nations are the cause of disillusionment and alienation among Arab youth, pushing some of them into positions of extremism which makes them ripe for recruitment by organisations such as Islamic State and al-Qaeda and inclined to undertake “suicide missions.”

It seems that we, as Arabs, offer the most heinous examples of racism, and not these Europeans, who put us to shame, sympathizing with the Syrian refugee who carries his children on his shoulders, as well as the burden of suffering and humiliation. The latter do not ask him whether he is Sunni or Shia, Alawite or Christian.

They see him only as a human being in need of help.

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#4 [Permalink] Posted on 3rd September 2015 21:32
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#5 [Permalink] Posted on 3rd September 2015 23:12
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this is indeed a topic to be discussed i've seen a picture of kid lying dead on a beach trying to cross sea, in these Muslims lack of only one thing UNITY, this is the reason we are facing every problem from poverty to wars
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#6 [Permalink] Posted on 4th September 2015 00:12
seeing this picture makes me ashamed to be human, how long have we sank? whats worse is this isnt a one off. 1000s of children have drowned or butchered in syria which we dont even hear or see about. whats wrong with us muslims? were more concerned about our phones cars houses and businesses. we run off to umrah and hajj every year and think were the next junaid baghdadi. im not sure if its allowed to say this but iv made intention never to go umrah and hajj again and inshAllah the money i would of spent there give to charity. surely even those who never been hajj its better to give to the poor. i read somewhere i think in fazail amaal that when the need arises asisting the poor and jihad takes priorty over performing fard hajj, can any scholars confirm?
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#7 [Permalink] Posted on 7th September 2015 20:31
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Syria Crisis - 500,000 Syrians in Saudi Arabia

Mohammed Khalid Alyahya, Associate Fellow At the Saudi Arabian King Faisal Centre For Research And Islam Studies

On why Saudi Arabia hadn't taken in any Syrian refugees:
"Zero is a very inaccurate number because Saudi Arabia doesn't have a refugee policy.
There are 500,000 Syrians in Saudi Arabia that have been given visas, 3000 of which, based on a recent royal decree, have been given scholarships to attend university inside the kingdom.
They are also given healthcare for themselves and their families but they are called visitors, they are not called refugees.
Many of them are there to visit their families, who already live in Saudi Arabia.
I can't speak to other Gulf countries but the number in Saudi Arabia is 500,000.
We can argue that this number is LOW but I would say the entire international community has done very little to alleviate the suffering of the Syrian people."

He then adds:
"This week we have seen a lot of focus on the refugee crisis after there was a spike in the number of refugees coming into Europe and after we saw these heart-breaking photographs of drowned civilian children and civillians but the refugee crisis has been going on for 4 years.
It's as if people have forgotten Syria until that one picture of the child surfaced."
"25 million refugees, that's where we are headed right now. There is no concreate plan of action to stop the root of the problem which is Bashar Al Assad."

The reporter, Lyse Doucet, than asks:
"It's not going to end tomorrow, the war, and if there is this growing sense that there's a short-term emergency crisis on the humanitarian side, would Saudi Arabia consider treating some the Syrians as refugees because of course there's a different status if you're a refugee than if you're a student for example.
Refugees would imply whole families would come in and would be in certain rights."

Mohammed Khalid Alyahya replies:
"Whole families have come in and they have been given visas and their statuses have been formalised in Saudi Arabia.
Just the fact that they're not called refugees doesn't mean that they aren't refugees. Putting the number at zero is extremely misleading.
It just ignores the fact that there are 500,000 Syrians in Saudi Arabia as a result of this war that WEREN'T in Saudi Arabia before it."


If this is true then I put my hand up and say I was wrong
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#8 [Permalink] Posted on 8th September 2015 12:46
There is no doubt that the gulf countries should do more to house refugees. Giving them visas is not enough. They should be given education and jobs as well. There is no doubt that many European countries treat foreigners in a decent manner in comparison to many Muslim countries
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#9 [Permalink] Posted on 8th September 2015 14:10
Also whoever wrote the article is an Islamic hater. He mentioned Arifi and Qardawi both who have been very vocal about the Syrian cause. Arifi was banned from giving talks as he was raising money for Syria. Qardawi mentioned the plight of Syrian refugees in another arab country who were being deported and this resulted in a huge diplomatic scandal. I do however agree that the response of the governments has been a problem but this is reflective of a wider issue.
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#10 [Permalink] Posted on 8th September 2015 14:58
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#11 [Permalink] Posted on 8th September 2015 15:18
^^^Can we remove the face, the eyes are very visible on larger screens
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#12 [Permalink] Posted on 8th September 2015 20:11
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"There are 500,000 Syrians in Saudi Arabia as a result of this war that weren't in Saudi Arabia before it" - Mohammed K. Alyahya @7yhy— ilmfeed (@IlmFeed) September 6, 2015
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#13 [Permalink] Posted on 8th September 2015 20:13
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"There are 500,000 Syrians in Saudi Arabia as a result of this war that weren't in Saudi Arabia before it" - Mohammed K. Alyahya @7yhy
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#14 [Permalink] Posted on 8th September 2015 20:17
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ismail reflects on the Syrian refugee crises and what Muslims can do in situations like these.

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can you please halalise this video. jzk
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