At a time during a blessed Ramadan month, where thousands of Muslims around the world are expected to sit down to break their fast with their family, waiting to consume that oh-so delicious water and the mouth watering food that your stomach has been deprived of for the whole day, there are thousands of Muslims around the world, who will not receive that privilege. They fast while they can, but fasting for them is not only for one month. Fasting for them is a lifestyle whereby they do not even have the money or resources to drink or eat at any time of day, let alone the time to break your fast.
What makes this even more sickening and upsetting is that some of these Muslims are living in war and unstable countries.
Take for example Syria, a civil war between modernists and Islamists. There are hundreds of homeless people seeking refugee from the conflict, yet countries such as Iraq, Jordan and Turkey risk turning Syria into an open-air prison. I understand that they do not want to face the trouble of Syria's conflict, but surely they cannot someone's basic right to seek asylum from persecution and other abuse?
What frustrates me even more is that no other international government has stepped in to try and resolve this conflict that is killing thousands of people and making the rest of the country's population into a path of starvation.
US, UK, any other of the big gun countries have not lifted a finger to help. And why should they? Well, they automatically try to help other countries in despair but a country within the Middle East is not in their radar. I wonder why that is?
Blair actually said that the UK should try and step in and rightly so. But I do not think this will happen anytime soon, let alone that these starving people will find comfort during this year's Ramadan amongst the wars and conflict.
The Girl of the 21st Century
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