Day to day in many parts of the Islamic world like Syria,
Egypt, Palestine, Iran, and many others there is a growing violence against the
people. People are losing faith in democracy ,sectarian violence reinvigorating,
rulers metamorphosed in adamant tyrants ,spreading bloodshed ,total devastation
of towns and cities into mere debris of ashes, mass exodus, lawlessness,
uncountable live losses and what not ?this is the ugly shape of many Muslim
nations ,this is the heart wrenching situation of people there? Why is this
happening? What happened to these nations whose fault is this? Who’s wrong and
who’s right? When will this strove will end? When will peace returns to these
lands and when will people smile again? When will……………….?
The rulers
are made for the people. When the same people don’t want them ,there is a moral
obligation up on the rulers to abdicate the throne in favour of a person of people’s
choice though he might be elected by the people democratically though he might
have proper tenure, yet when people demand he should resign from the position .That’s what true
democracy means .There is no meaning in sticking to the throne even when
the subjects cursed the ruler at the cost of the nation, ruing it politically
and economically and bringing the total devastation .Let us consider the
situation prevailing in few of the nations.
Syria portrays a worst situation among the nations
currently facing the civil unrest and lawlessness. Its president’ Bashar al
asad ‘is very adamant in getting down. His adamantine nature has caused death
of more than two lakh people in the country. Yet the heart of the tyrant is not
melted it seems. Several thousands have fled to neighbouring countries of Jordan,
Lebanon, and turkey as refugees. Whom he wish to rule in the graveyard they
made out of massacres? Isn’t his against the spirit of “republic”.
According to’ Chanakya ‘the great Indian political
thinker nearly more than 2000 years ago said in his “Arthashasthara” [the
science of polity] that “ in the
happiness of his subjects lies the kings
but not in happiness of king lies the happiness of his subjects and a king
shall not do anything against the wishes of his subjects”. But Bashar al asad
is following this the other way! At least now he should relax his iron fist and
save the struggling nation.
Egypt showcases a different picture. Egypt had a
first democratically elected government after almost thirty years of hoisin Mubarak’s
despotic rule. The ecstasies haven’t reminded for long, the Mohamed Morsi
government had just completed one year of its rule.
And now a civilian unrest has broken, military
intervened again to restore peace, the government was dissolved. The reasons
for the situation in Egypt seems to be socio political in nature .no
improvement in the status of unemployment, raising inflation, growing fear of anti-secular
policies of the government, and finally the failure of president to meet the
expectations of the people. All this have led to mass demonstrations at Egypt’s
famous tharir-square. Ultimately bringing doom to morsi lead Muslim brotherhood
government. In this case at least the blood shed is reduced with military
siding with people instead of its rulers. The situation might have ended on a
better note if morsi had resigned before the military coup. This had brought
utter defamation over his reputations which lead him to the presidential chair.
In The recent elections in Iran the people elected a
moderate president Hassan rohani and gave a blow to Ahmadinejad whose enticing
acting brought Iran to the verge of war and deteriorate d economy and nation as
well as the people proved smarter here. They must be appreciated for the change
they brought in a perfect way.
Pic:
rohani after winning polls
In the desert kingdom of Saudi
Arabia the government passed “nitaqat” law recently .this law makes it compulsory for the local
employer to employee the local youth at 10 % in total companies’ work force.
This is a major step to thwart the growing unrest among the youth of the
kingdoms, though at the cost of immigrant cheap labour from third world
countries. This suggest that the kingdom ‘s people can no longer enjoy the
medieval king size life with the dwindling of its oil resources and decreasing demand
due to development of alternate sources of energy. This is also an indicator
for an upcoming unrest in the kingdom.
The unrest in Turkey is of a different kind. People
demonstrated against the government’s decision to convert the green gezi park
at CBD in Istanbul in to a concrete tower. Ultimately the people won against
the will of government making peace.
Pic:
the Gezi Park
The conflict faced by Palestine is well known. How
much they have to suffer, till how long they have to suffer only god knows. The
problem is following with politician’s wrong ideologies instead of people’s
aspirations.
The Arab spring which kindled the reforms among many
Arab nations needs to rekindle for newer which are more people centric.
These geographically disadvantaged nations of west
Asia and Middle East instead of fighting against the common enemies of terrorism,
poverty, women oppression, despotism, evils of climate change, desertification,
etc…, they keep fighting with their own people and among themselves leading to
chaos in the region.
The issue ‘s of these nations is being
internationalised when big powers like the USA ,UK ,Russia and china take
sides.it resembles the cold war era grouping which will further create fear
confusion among many other nations.
These big powers must help to restore democracy in
these regions. But they are interested in only strategic advantages, resource
mobilisation, resource exploitation, etc... But not genuinely interested in the
plight of the people of these regions and their problems. A mere geographical
and political entity doesn’t make a nation. A nation means people and people
mean everything for a nation.
Pic:
make earth a place to live in peace holding together.
Hence the
rulers must strive for the wellbeing of its people instead of theirs and thus
cope up for the sustainable development of these regions and people spreading
happiness and prosperity which is the sole essence of life. The purpose of life
is to live. Let us live it more cheerfully and giving life a meaning.
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