The Government Eats While The Population Starves

Religiosity without much knowledge or education is a sure recipe for ignorance. The above cartoon shows the main problem facing the majority of the Sudanese people and infact Muslims as a whole. It is the attitude which is all about blaming it on the One up there. Ask people about Katrina or the Asian tsunami and surely some of them will say “hey, just accept it as it is the will of God”. Yup sure thing, every nasty crap that happens is the will of God. The fat man on the left represents the Sudanese government while the poor skinny man on the right represents the religious and uneducated Sudanese population. The fat man hides a bag of money behind his back and tells the poor man to be patient. He says to him “salvation is near my friend. Just stick to what you’re doing right now. Keep praying and worshipping… You know, just focus on the after life”. Sadly the poor skinny man (the general Sudanese population) falls for it and ends up believing in such things firmly. I strongly believe that this kind of attitude is the major reason why we Muslims in general are still so backward. Allah doesn’t change a people who don’t change what’s within themselves first. It is true that somethings such as natural disasters can’t be controled and are God’s/mother nature’s will. However simply giving up and reasoning it all as God’s will is a dumb and stupid attitude that just pisses me off so damn badly. I hate it. The debate between predestination and choice is a never ending one. So while we all try to figure it out, let’s please for a change try to take responsiblity for the bad things that happen and try to fix them. OKAY?

It’s so lovely isn’t it? And we Muslims still want to climb out of the hole we dug up and found ourselves in. The longer this attitude continues, the deeper the hole will get. Islam encourages us to seek knowledge and read. It encourages us to think. Sadly with this kind of attitude, Islam becomes nothing more but a cage. Let me say it again. Allah doesn’t change a people who don’t change what’s within themselves first. Muslims, please open up your minds to see who the enemy is. The enemy is ignorance and extremism. Stop blaming the Americans and Jews for every damn thing. Stop saying we are where we are because it is the will of Allah. Open up your eyes and see the deep hole you burried yourselves in. God is so great that He’s beyond our 100% understanding. Therefore drop the predestination VS choice debate. Let’s try something different for a while. Believe me, the result will be a much better one than what we experience today.

14 Responses to “The Government Eats While The Population Starves”

1. Anonymous on June 3rd, 2006 5:33 am

   drima,
   It reminds me of a story I once heard. A man was caught in a tree by a flood and while sitting in its branches, he prayed to God, “God save me from this flood.”
   Soon after a man in a rowboat came by the tree. “Let me toss you a rope and pull you down from the tree,” the man said.
   “No, I prayed to God and I am waiting for him to rescue me,” said the man in the tree.
   The man in the rowboat went away.
   Soon after, a helicopter spotted the man in the tree.
   “Let us lower a bucket to help you to safety,” said the men in the helicopter.
   “No,” said the man in the tree. “I prayed to God and I am waiting for him to rescue me,” he explained.
   The helicopter soon flew away.
   Next came a US coast guard ship, “We will be sending divers to help bring you to safety,” the ship announced over it’s loudspeaker.
   “No,” screamed the man. “Leave me alone! I prayed to God and He will come rescue me!”
   The US Coast Guard soon left after the man once again refused help.
   The man then fell from the tree and drowned.
   When he got up to God, he asked God, “I’ve always been a good man. I prayed to you for help. Why did you not answer my call?”
   “I did,” said God. “I sent a rowboat, a helicopter and the US Coast Guard.”
   God has given us all we need, we just have to learn how to recognize it.
   t

2. Drima on June 3rd, 2006 7:26 am

   Sadly T, I still don’t think the type of people I was talking about will bother to realize the moral of this wonderfull story.

3. Leilouta on June 3rd, 2006 9:33 am

   First it is always the US and Jews fault, second they say it is God’s will.
   That is what happens in Tunisia too. The president, his wife, and their associates own or manage most of the big businesses, while our young educated generation can’t even make ends meet.

4. Tsedek on June 4th, 2006 1:49 am

   Drima, what can people do to snap outta it and take responsibility? Don’t they then realize how hopeless their situation is, given that there is not much some can do opposing dictatorial regimes and losing their peace of mind they found by blaming the jews and predestination?

5. Drima on June 4th, 2006 3:14 am

   According to the South-North peace agreement, democratic elections will be taking place a few years from now. It is then that I hope some reform will take place. The biggest problem is that there is no better alternative than the current government from what I see. Sudan is vast and communication isn’t so efficient there even though mobile phone networks are fast covering the whole country. It took us 20 years to reach the corrupted stage that we’re in right now. Therefore it’s also probably going to take us another 20 or 30 years to fix things. Another way would be for the whole country to rebel but given the “be patient and get the reward of the afterlife” attitude that we face, I don’t see that ever happening on a large scale anytime soon. The problem is that even in Sudan when people do riot and rebel, it’s almost always for revenge. If someone overthrows the current Khartoum government, I would desperately hope that it isn’t for revenge but for the wish to bring something better for the whole of Sudan by establishing a responsible and honest government that can lead the Sudanese people as a whole towards peace and prosperity.

6. Tsedek on June 4th, 2006 6:32 am

   Governmental corruption and dictatorial regimes (in any form, also like the mullah regimes) - are the worst. As a matter of fact, and i guess i’m being very pessimistic here, i don’t see no other way to a more democratic solution for the country (any country that’s currently suffering from dictatorship) than first oversweeping to the other side thinking it’ll bring peace and justice - like what happened in Iran in 1979. I think NOW the Iranians are ready, by finding out on their flesh and through bitter experience, that the “be patient and get the reward of the afterlife” attitude they fostered when the Shah was in power, turned out to be false. Maybe it’s something a “people” have to go through? Same impression I’m having when I look at Egypt. If Mubarak would be toppled I’m very much convinced the Muslim Brotherhood would come to power democratically just to kill democracy by the same speed it was elected by. And, only then, after a certain period of time, they would gather from experience it’s all the same s-h-i-t, only in a different texture.
   I hope I’m wrong….

   Tse.

7. Drima on June 4th, 2006 8:41 am

   The key in my opinion is PUBLIC DISOBEDIENCE. The question is how do you convince people to carry it out on a massive scale.

8. halalhippie on June 4th, 2006 3:39 pm

   Drima, your sanity is amazing! One of these days you’ll be declared apostate..(kidding)
   Now this ” if shit happens, it’s the will of Allah or caused by the Jews/US/West” attitude: I’m sure you personally know Sudanese ppl who reason like that. What do _they_ think of your posting ? Won’t they call you a monafeq or a western degenerate ? Or do you keep this for the blogsphere ?

9. Drima on June 4th, 2006 8:35 pm

   The only Sudanese friends I told about this blog are the open-minded ones I know. They like it a lot but the lazy asses still haven’t dropped a single comment. However some other retarded other ones did find out about it and are now giving me weird looks whenever they meet me. They sarcastically ask how’s my “cyber quest” going. I just smile sarcastically at them too… Sheeeesh, Halalhippie! This blog might get me killed lol =p

10. Drewcatt on June 5th, 2006 6:47 am

    Sadly, people (as a general group) tend to gravitate towards easy answers and easy solutions.

    When called upon to exercise the greatest gift granted to anyone, the ability to think critically, to analyse, and to come to reasoned conclusions, people shy away from their responsibilities.

    If the government says its the fault of someone else, and that they’re working effortlessly to solve all our problems, then it MUST be so… right? We want to place our faith and hopes in one person (or groups of people) and let them handle all the dangerous, dirty, time-consuming thinking. We’re too content with following.

    So when you buck the trend, when you try to, as the Americans are fond of saying, think ‘outside-the-box’, you get silly looks from those unwilling to engage in their own analysis of the situation around them.

    It’s that kind of mentality that has led not just Muslim nations, but places like my own home, to the holes that they find themselves in.

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13. Jerry on June 8th, 2007 6:23 am

    YOu are Genius. A similar problem exists in Latin America where the Catholic relgion teaches the people acceptance and ultimate salvation if they can only accept their life as it is. The last minute absolution then purifies their soul for meeting God. Well the upper class lives in luxury and controls the assets of the country. That is just Gods will.

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