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Muslim Double Standards
[National Post-Canada] Tarek Fatah - This week, more than 100 Muslims have died and thousands more have been arrested in China. Yet not a peep of protest has been heard on the streets of Cairo, Karachi or Tehran. Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei, it seems, is too busy imprisoning and herding Iranian Muslims to jail to hear the outcry in Xinxiang. This is not the first time the so-called ummah has shrugged off the massacre of fellow Muslims. The genocide of Darfuri Black Muslims at the hands of the Arab janjaweed militia and the Sudanese government has passed unnoticed by the larger Islamic world. Egyptian-American journalist Mona Eltahawy mused: If Israel invaded western China, maybe the rest of the Muslim world would wake up. We Muslims need to wake up to an ethical challenge. It is immoral for us to stay silent when Muslim-on-Muslim violence takes place, but yell at the top of our lungs when the victims suffer at the hands of non-Muslims. This is a double standard that the Koran prohibits. The writer is author of Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State.