Anger Mounts as Haiti Sees Little Sign of Aid

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Anger mounts as Haiti sees little sign of aid
AFP January 15, 2010, 11:41 am


US President Barack Obama sought to lift up a despairing people, facing acute shortages of food, water and shelter, offering 100 million dollars in immediate assistance.

"To the people of Haiti, we say clearly and with conviction, you will not be forsaken, you will not be forgotten," he said.

Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, along with Brazil and Canada and other concerned nations are planning to hold an international conference on Haiti's reconstruction, the French presidency said.

Comment:

I wonder what OIC or Dubai, or Saudi Arabia, or other oil rich countries would do? Or donate to help relieve the earthquake victims in Haiti? (Will it be more than 100 million dollars? 50 million dollars, maybe? 20 million dollars?). Maybe they will say, oh… WE don’t have that kind of money.

Personally for me, the 100 million dollars that US contributed to the earthquake victims in Haiti is a small sum, compare to their GNP and GDP which annual up to trillion of dollars. But its a good start.

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Burj Khalifa (Burj Dubai)

Burj Khalifa (Burj Dubai)

Thousands of cheering, clapping spectators watched as a tally projected on huge screens at the opening ceremony revealed the tower's most closely guarded secret -- its height of 2,717 feet (828 metres). That made it more than 1,000 feet (305 metres) higher than the skyscraper known as Taipei 101 in Taiwan, which at 1,667 feet (508 metres) had been the world's tallest since 2004.

Comment:

IT’S A brilliant and excellent achievement, the ‘tallest building’ in the world, right here in Dubai. It’s a monumental landmark since the fall of the Ottoman Empire in Turkey, and the continual downfall of Muslim intellects, but their raise especially in the 1990s and 2000s are also encouraging. With Muslim countries producing many local intellects.

Thus, I would just wish that Dubai, United Arab Emirate, Saudi Arabia, and other oil rich countries in the middle-east would provide generous ‘International Scholarships’ to international students (especially Muslim), so that they can take up academic candidature (or residential) at established universities in the middle-east and/or in Europe, USA, UK, Japan, South Korea, and so forth.

It is only through these generous scholarships offer to deserving Muslim that the world Muslim intellect can grow and prosper, and once again redeem the excellency of the teaching of Islam, which promote not only the teaching of the verses of the Quran and Sunnah, but also the development of science and technology - knowledge and innovation.

The tallest building doesn’t mean anything to other Muslim if it just stand where it is and not baring any ‘fruits’ to its inhabitants or other Muslim.

The tallest building doesn’t mean anything if it is just mean only for ‘showmanship’, that costs billions of dollars.



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