By: Maged Taman
I was watching ex-Prim minister of Britain Mr. Major talking about the poverty in the world in Charlie Rose show. He stated out of 6 billion people in earth 3 billion lives under 2 dollar a day. Statistics showed that 12.5% of Americans are below the poverty line. Millions of people die every year second to hunger and disease in Africa.
A lot of people in America do not know how poverty looks like. Let me give you this example. When I was young boy in Egypt in our building of 8 floors has about 50 families most are not rich but getting by and only about 4 families are struggling and other people were helping them out. Now there may be 4 families are getting by and other families are struggling.
Struggling means that you are killed every day you do not know if you will have a good meal to your children or you will afford the medicine if they get sick. It is a daily suffering. Fasting in the month of Ramadan in Islam is the best practical example to the rich to feel for the poor. When I was in Medical School in Egypt I usually can predict who will join an extreme religious group. Poverty no doubt is a big contributing factor, oppression and injustices are other reasons.
There is no excuse to the widespread poverty is the world. We have both the money and the human and the material resources. The inability to use an innovative economic policy to achieve just that result in a great economic deficit in the world economy. We are just wasting the human and material resources that could have been used properly.
If you are a caring person or even if you do not care it is for the self-interest of all of us to fight poverty. Poverty is one of the main roots of terrorism. It says to the other side you do not care about me if I got poor or oppressed. You are even positively contributing to that for your own self-interest. In a verse in Quran God recite what the unbelievers said to the messenger "we feed those whom God if wanted could have fed!!". It is appalling the military package of billion dollars to the Arab countries and Israel for military aid. Give me one tenth of all these billion of dollars going to wars and I will give you a peaceful world.
This is our mission in earth is to do God 's work to feed the poor and alleviate the sufferings of other humans. Why God have created all of these sufferings. My answer is simple why should you go to heaven eternally for only few years of suffering in earth. Religions should not be competing for who is more generous to the poor but how we can work it together to solve the widespread poverty of the world. It is not about domination but it is about co-existence.
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Unfortunately, wealth has become a commodity that circulates between the rich and only the rich , aided by the support of those who donate foolishly to the boxoffice of their major enemies :Hollywood and organized sports whether directly by actively attending or indirectly via pay-per-view fiascos ..just look at what a fake sporting event such as a 2-hour WWE wrestling can collect from idiots willing to pay for what otherwise could feed a third world town for a month !
For Hanan and Mamdouh there is a joke in America if they are calling for improving the world poverty they are great and follow Jesus and when Muslims call for that and people like me forward large ideas they say that it is an antichrist idea. It is simply the rich and corrupt wants to dominate the world. They want our submission to America one of the most capitalistic and destructive systems. Millions of Americans in bankruptcy and millions can not get out of povery. For a simple reason called usury system were the rich invest in lending the poor. As you would see that is why it took me about 3 years to have my voice heared in the media. They did no let me out to the American media for my opinions against the Arab tyrants and the immoral capitalism.
Welcome to the era of trials and tribulations where good is bad and bad is good ..
well said.
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