[Neurons] 2015 "Neurons" Meta Reflections #32

Sun Sep 27 18:50:40 EDT 2015

From: L. Michael Hall

Meta Reflections #32

July 27, 2015

Creating Response-Able Persons #7

WHEN WILL ARAB LEADERS

STEP UP TO THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES?

Being responsible as a person entails accepting responsibility for the
responses that one can make to people and circumstances.  In recent weeks,
on just about every media outlet, we have seen hundreds of thousands of
people fleeing as refugees from the war in Syria.  We have seen pictures of
babies and young children dying in the Mediterrean Sea as families have fled
and tens of thousands blocked from entering various countries.  There's been
a flood of migrants heading mostly for Germany and the UK where welfare
benefits are the highest, and it has created a massive humanitarian crisis.
Many of the refugees have arrive in some of Europe's poorest states- Greece,
Italy and Hungary.

So, what's to be done?  What can we do?  Whose responsibility is this?  What
responses can jthe world make to this crisis?

Dr. Denis MacEoin, a Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, has gathered
stunning statistics from a Amnesty International report (Dec. 2011) and has
shown a throughly imbalanced response from the immediate Arab world around
Syria.  In reading the following, I began asking myself, "When will Arab
leaders step up?"  In doing so, I am putting out a challenge to Arab
leaders: "Will you be responsible or irresponsible in this humanitarian
crisis?"

Today the problem is that while countries in the European are experiencing
an overwhelming influx of refugees from Syria and other collapsing Middle
East countries, "the vastly wealthy Arab nations of Saudi Arabia and the
Gulf States are sitting back and watching as Europe takes the toll."  That
is not the behavior of responsible people and especially those who claim to
be leaders, including spiritual leaders.

Fact #1: 95% of the first 3.8 million refugees fleeing Syria are located in
five countries.  With the exception of Turkey, those five countries are
among the poorest in the region: Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt.
Amnesty's breakdown of the figures are these:

           Lebanon hosts 1.1 million registered refugees- 26% of the
country's population. 

           Jordan hosts 618,615 registered refugees- 9.8% of the
population.

           Turkey hosts 1.6 million refugees- 2.4% of the population.

           Iraq hosts 225,373 registered refugees - 0.67% of the
population.

           Egypt hosts 142,543 registered refugees - 0.17% of the
population.

Amnesty International is calling for at least 5% of the refugees to be
resettled from the main host countries by the end of 2015, with a further 5%
to follow by the end of 2016.  But that's only a total of 380,000 people.

Fact #2:  Six countries speaking the same language (with regional
variations), belong to the same ethnic group, share the same religion and
much of the same culture, and are among the wealthiest countries in the
world.  Yet they have no room at all for their fellow Arabs.  The six Arab
Gulf countries of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, the UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain
have offered zero - 0 - places for desperate refugees!  Now, what's with
that?  Do Arabs in these six countries not care?  Do they refuse
responsibility to their fellow human beings?

Dr. MacEoin writes, "They [seem to be] perfectly happy to let hundreds of
thousands to squeeze into an already saturated Europe, into countries that
have not, for the most part, succeeding in assimilating or integrating
existing Arab, Turkish, Somali, and other mainly Muslim minorities." 

Nor is he alone.  There are many others now joining the criticism of these
six Gulf States.  Others who have been speaking out include the following: 

           Sarah Hashash, Middle East and North Africa press officer at
Amnesty International, has "called the Gulf Arab states' behavior 'utterly
shameful' and criticized Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United
Arab Emirates for officially taking in zero refugees."

           Daniel Gorevan, a NGO official, Oxfam's Syria country director,
states: "Gulf countries clearly can and should do an awful lot more."

           Danish Finance Minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen: "I'm most
indignant over the Arab countries who are rolling in money and who only take
very few refugees," "Countries like Saudi Arabia.  It's completely
scandalous."

So, when will the Arab Leaders in those six Gulf States step up to their
responsibilities?  When will they open their doors and their hearts to this
humanitarian crisis?  Do they fear that there might be terrorists planted by
ISIS among the refugees?  Welcome to the same fear that every nation
receiving the refugees!  

The choice of being and living in a responsible way entails doing responding
the best that we can given the situations of life.  This is especially so
for leaders and even more so for political and spiritual leaders.  Where is
the outcry among Moslem leaders within these countries?  Isn't it about
time?  

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

               Neuro-Semantics Executive Director 

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