Yes, I suggest Australia might be sending some aid over very quickly.
A quick google and it's amazing what you can find. Assumptions can often be erroneous.I wonder how much $$$ saudi arabia, kuwait, bahrain and other wealthy muslim countries are going to send compared to us and other western countries. http://www.arabnews.com/ doesn't even mention anything about aide given by other muslim countries.
http://www.unhcr.org/4c5bdf099.html said:Tomorrow (Saturday), UNHCR will receive supplies donated by the Saudi Fund for Development including 25,000 tents, 380,000 blankets, 126,000 plastic tarpaulins, 100,000 mattresses and 25,000 kitchen sets as well as 20,000 food parcels for Ramadan.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/10/pakistan-flood-international-aid#zoomed-picture said:To date, only five countries – Britain, the US, Australia, Italy and Kuwait – have committed or pledged more than $5m in new funding.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/10/pakistan-flood-international-aid#zoomed-picture said:The Pakistani Taliban today urged the government not to accept western aid money, and offered to fund relief efforts itself. Taliban fighters have in the past attacked international aid groups in the country, accusing them of trying to introduce "un-Islamic" values
"Pakistan should reject this aid to maintain sovereignty and independence," a Taliban spokesman told the Associated Press.
Well Kuwait is pretty much up there by themselves, amongst all the western nations which is a bit sad and India has flat-out refused to send any aid whatsoever. Saudi looks like they are providing physical items rather than cash, but it is not clear what their efforts equal in a monetary sense.That's some good research. Again though, much more western countries donating that other muslim countries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_foreign_assistance said:Between 1975 to 1987, Saudi developmental aid amounted to US$48 billion, second only to the United States of America.
Biological weapons are far easier to transport, deploy, manufacture, and are cheaper than nuclear or chemical weapons by a significant order of magnitude.And what about the nukes?
The scale of the Pakistan disaster dwarfs anything the Americans can do to assist. In a country where anti-American sentiment runs high, disaster relief can do little to change that sentiment.
Islamist linked groups are already scoring points by delivering aid to the needy in some places in advance of the very limited international aid, which is slow to arrive. Posted by Calliope
1) Where in god's name will 14 million people live and eat ?
2) How much is Pakistans external debts and who will be affected if/when these have to be rescheduled ?
3) Where are the nukes? How are we going to make sure they don't fall into the wrong hands.
Who is going to answer these questions, and when?
I think you'll find a fair bit of people are hoping this great flood acts like a toilet and flushes away years and centuries worth of crap there. Sadly, it won't happen though. I think when extremists learn to respect other peoples views and religions, then, and only then will people really care about these countries.
I hope your attitude is not widespread, but I fear it is.
You can't weed out the Islamic terrorists by flushing the innocent down the toilet with them.
The people most effected are the people in the breadbasket of Pakistan, the most productive areas that by and large have the most anti-extremist/moderate views. Given the economic devastation that Pakistan now faces through loss of productive capacity, there is a risk that more people will be drawn to the poorer fringes of society which prove to be fertile ground for extremism.I think you'll find a fair bit of people are hoping this great flood acts like a toilet and flushes away years and centuries worth of crap there. Sadly, it won't happen though. I think when extremists learn to respect other peoples views and religions, then, and only then will people really care about these countries.
The people most effected are the people in the breadbasket of Pakistan, the most productive areas that by and large have the most anti-extremist/moderate views. Given the economic devastation that Pakistan now faces through loss of productive capacity, there is a risk that more people will be drawn to the poorer fringes of society which prove to be fertile ground for extremism.
If the government are slow to act whilst the more extremist Islamic groups are able to provide aid quickly, it will aid the garnering of support for the Islamists over the government and help the Taliban recruiting strategy. The bedraggled poor of the Pashtun Tasliban could well be supplemented by recruitment from former mainstream tribal areas as a direct result of this tragedy.
In contrast, let's say this happened to a country like Fiji, I think you'd see an outpour of compassion and assistance.
Pakistan is the western democracies' biggest problem and yet on this forum it is ignored, while we argue about which of two look-alike parties we should elect.
Can understand your frustrations caliope, but look at this arabic web sight, not a word about the floods on their front page.
What has happened to middle east brotherhood?
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