An interesting op-ed piece by Peter Bergen raises a good question: For all that the various Arab leagues spend time decrying the way in which the West oppresses Muslims and so on, why are they - both as a community and as individual countries - so conspicuously absent when it comes time to help fellow Muslims? The recent disaster in Asia is just an example - even though the hardest-hit area is one of the most predominantly Muslim parts of Indonesia, the Muslim country that gave the most - Saudi Arabia - gave only $30 million, as much as the Netherlands, and the other countries gave even less. But this is hardly a unique incident; these countries are always the loudest when it's time to claim victimization, and the quietest when it comes time to doing anything about it, especially if it may have a cost to them.
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