01-01-2005, 04:29 PM
Assalaam Alaikum
A news reporter gave an example of imagining a mile long street being bombed by F-16's where everything is destroyed. Such is the extent of damage and pain felt by the Tsunami.
The thought immediately turned to Iraq where this is exactly happening all over Iraq. Children losing parents, mothers searching for their children under the rubble of bombed houses, wives mourning the death of their husbands etc. etc.
The pictures of people injured or dead are exactly the same as in Iraq but the difference is that one is due to man's actions and the other due to Allah's decision.
Is it not weird how people (especially in the West) react to natural disasters from such as the Tsunami. But at the same time have very little affection or concerns for those who are bombed by man i.e US/UK etc.
Do those very people who are for the war in Iraq i.e. seeing children and families killed etc. carry the same feelings for those of the Tsunami? How hypocritical is that indeed!