Jahangir's World Times First Comprehensive Magazine for students/teachers of competitive exams and general readers as well.
Fifty-seven Muslim countries, stretched from the Dark Continent to the shiny shores of Indonesia and Malaysia in Asia, are almost linked together like loops of a chain. The impotent and inept leaders have been calling the shots in internal as well as external affairs of these interconnected Muslim countries since decades. They have been organized under the umbrella of a toothless paper tiger ‘Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)’. The mountains, plains, deserts, shores in Muslim world abound in natural resources. It is estimated that 40% and 70% of natural resources and energy resources respectively are present in the Muslim world.
In spite of being blessed with enormous natural resources, the sluggish Muslim world lags far behind the developed nations in every aspect. Yet the leaders have no pragmatic plans at hand to benefits their countries from their own resources. The Muslim world has consistently been a victim of apathy and indifference, and the future still doesn’t seem encouraging if the narrow and parochial approach goes on. They have lost their territories of great strategic importance to their enemies. Isn’t it ironic that the forces of many weak Muslim countries combined couldn’t defeat a small country Israel? These countries are now in the claws of extremism, terrorism, poverty, so-called ‘Arab Spring’.
The total GDP of Muslim world is less than that of the UK because of the weak and selfish leaders. Among 57 Muslim countries, none is praiseworthy in any field of life. All these have been the colonies of the West for centuries and have been exploited by imperialists to make themselves strong enough for further exploitation of these weaker nations. The puppet leaders in Islamic world seek to prolong their regime by supporting the West. They even couldn’t muster courage to defend their nation against the tyrannical West. The Islamic countries have access to each other via land routes but they don’t take initiatives to increase their bilateral trade in order to boost up their economies. If they remain weak economically, then how can they think to become a world power? Without the boosting their economy, some Muslim countries tried to build strong army, but it proved futile.
The Muslim leaders didn’t learn any lesson from the former USSR which disintegrated just because of huge army without sound economy. They still don’t have any plan to embellish their nation with the ornaments of knowledge; their abortive efforts to get technological advancement have remained fantasy so far. The education system of these countries is poor and outdated and it could only produce and encourage fanatic attitude and hate-mongering.
Core issues of Muslim world ‘Kashmir and Palestine’ are still lying with the UN unresolved. These leaders did not take any concrete and practical steps to resolve these issues and just feel it sufficient to condemn the atrocities of Israel, India and other oppressing states. Rohingyas in Myanmar are being slaughtered and lynched savagely by the Buddhists. The Muslim world is burning in the fire badly because of the policies of the leaders.
The encouragement of feudal system in Pakistan and other Muslim countries by the so-called leaders is inexplicable. They, slowly and steadily, drag their nations towards darkness and the result is here before us. What is happening across the Muslim world? The weak leadership bestowed few nobles and relatives with precious gifts of all kind and suppressed the poor people in order to strengthen their position. They divided the people on the basis of cast and creed, colour, religion and other inhumane systems. They slaughtered and killed all those whom they considered obstacles in their way. They have been using religion as a tool to get political benefits.
Internal rivalries among the Muslim states are striking example of inept leadership. Saudi Arab being the centre of the Muslim world is not ready to accept Iran as a nuclear country, though they accepted Pakistan as first Muslim nuclear country. Saudis used all gimmicks to contain Iranian Nuclear Uranium Enrichment policy and also relinquished the non-permanent seat in UNSC because of the negotiations between Iran and P5+1 over Iranian nuclear problem. Ironically, Saudi Arabia, like Israel, tried to pressurize USA to contain Iran. It simply means that Saudi Arab has partially accepted the sovereign existence of Israel.
The Syrian civil war has consumed tens of thousands of civilians. Iran, Hezbollah, and other Shia majority countries support Assad regime while Saudi Arabia and other Sunni-dominated countries support the rebels. The internal enmity has badly weakened the collective strength of the Muslim countries.
No Muslim country is safe and capable enough to run its affairs independently. The incompetent rulers have proved to be a curse for the Muslim world. Lack of democracy, poor education, oppressed media, meager health facilities, extreme poverty, huge foreign debt, etc., are the ‘golden gift’ from the leaders of Muslim world. The Muslim world is in dire need of strong, educated and loyal leadership to lead the Muslims otherwise it would be more difficult for them to survive in future.
