What is happening to the Arabs and Muslims? Why do they get defeated all the time? Why has victory become a far-fetched dream? The tears of men, women and children in the Gaza Strip caused me unbearable pain when I saw them on satellite channels and in the newspapers. Like all people in Gaza, Egypt, the Gulf, the Arab Maghreb, Pakistan, India and Indonesia, I raise my hand in the sky and ask God to help the Gazans.
I heard a woman who lost her children saying: "We do not want anything from the Arabs, we only ask God." However, God does not respond. Does God hear us? Is he angry at us because we are corrupt or because our rulers are corrupt? Does the Almighty God get angry when He sees the Israelis killing children, women and the elderly? Why does not He retaliate against them? Why does not He destroy the Israeli assailants and occupiers with the Hamas rockets?
Does not God know that Bush is an unjust and despotic man who sponsors injustice and aggressors and kills millions of Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine? Or does God see that Bush has a gentle heart that has been filled with grief when his daughter's cat died, as he said from the White House?
Were Al-Zaidi's shoes enough divine punishment for Bush for his crimes? Does not Hamas adopt Islamic slogans? Do not the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in Egypt and the Shiite Hezbollah and Iran pray for Hamas? So, what is the problem? Does God punish Hamas because it rebelled against Fatah? What about the Iraqi Sunnis and Shiites and the Muslims of Bosnia and Pakistan?
Indeed, we deserve death everywhere, but do America and Israel deserve victory from God?
Our rulers are corrupt. They rob us, sponsor corruption, monopolize their countries' wealth and fight democracy? But the question now is: What About Us?
Are mosques and churches not filled with prayers? Do not many women wear hijab (headscarf) and niqab (full-face veil)? Do not we pray for God while we lie and take bribes? Do not our voices reach the sky?
Why does not God respond to our prayers? It is sure that it is the problem of the sender. The message does not reach the doors of Heaven that are closed because God is angry at us. God would not change people's behavior if they did not change themselves! Unless we change ourselves, God would never grant us victory!
