Why don't muslims do anything about ISIS, and only protect their own kind?

[Mangokiwi]

Originally Posted by lexdiamondz1902

Their goal isn't to spread Islam everywhere, because if it was then they wouldn't be attacking and pillaging in Muslim countries. Don't be daft, their goal is to gain political control and they're using Islam as a means of rallying support from disenfranchised men in the region to do so. If they were really fighting for Islam, they'd be attacking the West, not other Muslims.



Part of it is an issue of not their country, not their problem. But the other side of this is the fact that most of these countries can't actually afford to go to war right now.

The United States, a country with the biggest economy in the world that has the capacity to print endless sheets of currency with relatively few repercussions is thinking twice about putting troops on the ground because of the economic and social costs of doing so. Why would a possibly unstable third world country bankrupt itself going to war with ISIS when ISIS isn't their problem? Not everyone else in the world is like the US and has a large army with an unlimited stockpile of bombs...these things cost money, money which most ME countries don't have. The countries that DO have money, such as Saudi Arabia and Iran, are already fundamentalist states so they're not going to stop ISIS.

You keep placing the onus on Muslims to do something about ISIS. What exactly do you expect people with limited resources to do when major military powers are sitting on their hands?

As for "reacting like we do"...cut the crap. If the United States was so brave and so driven to fight for justice, then North Korea & Iran would have been taken out already. The US is just as cowardly as any other group of people, so let's get off of our high horse now.

I love all the excuses you make for them.

How can they not afford it? The Gulf States are some of the wealthiest countries in the entire world. Do you know how rich Saudi Arabia is? Have you been living under a rock for the past 100 years?
How can they afford not to do something? You think they should just allow themselves to be invaded by ISIS because they couldn't find the money? LOL

They can well afford to do something, and as I mentioned as the recent development, The Kingdom of Jordan has stepped up to take responsibility. Good for them. They didn't make any excuses like you are making. Religion of "peace", more like religion of denial of the problem.

[lexdiamondz1902]

Originally Posted by Mangokiwi

I love all the excuses you make for them.

How can they not afford it? The Gulf States are some of the wealthiest countries in the entire world. Do you know how rich Saudi Arabia is? Have you been living under a rock for the past 100 years?
How can they afford not to do something? You think they should just allow themselves to be invaded by ISIS because they couldn't find the money? LOL

They can well afford to do something, and as I mentioned as the recent development, The Kingdom of Jordan has stepped up to take responsibility. Good for them. They didn't make any excuses like you are making. Religion of "peace", more like religion of denial of the problem.

You obviously don't know anything about the Middle East and seem to think that it's all one big country when it's not, and you sound like a dumbass making statements like these.

Saudi Arabia is basically a fundamentalist state that more or less sponsors terrorism...in what world would the Saudis ever help fight ISIL? More likely they're the ones funding them in the first place. As for the rest of the Gulf States...most of them are TINY. You remember Kuwait? They got steamrolled by Saddam in the 90's. None of them have the millitary capabilities to actually fight anybody, regardless of whether or not they have money. Most of their population isn't even local, it's made up of foreigners. So who's going to fight?

And anyway, they aren't the ones being invaded by ISIL. Syria, Iraq, Libya and Lebanon are, and the only reason they are is because they all just had major regimes toppled & revolutions, and there's nobody in those countries specifically to stop them. Jordan is fighting them because Jordan has an equiped and competent army, and because ISIL directly threatened them.