Eminent thinker, historian, and writer-extraordinaire Victor Davis Hanson eviscerates critics of America’s response to the tsunami disaster in his latest article, posted at the National Review Online. Hanson points out the hypocrisy of wealthy Muslim countries’ pathetic “donations” to the victims of the tidal wave catastrophe. The supposedly devout Muslims who rule the Arabian Gulf nations are in fact the top wrung in the Islamic caste system. In comparison to millions of U.S. dollars pouring into the disaster area, the Gulf States have thrown pennies “to aid the ravaged homelands of their Islamic nannies, drivers, and janitors.” Here are some snippets from Hanson’s article:

So an entire mythology has grown up to accommodate this false world of ours — sadly never more evident than during the recent tsunami disaster, a tragedy that has juxtaposed rhetoric with reality in a way that becomes each day more surreal. The wealthy Gulf States pledge very little of their vast petrol-dollar reserves — swollen from last year's jacked-up gasoline prices — to aid the ravaged homelands of their Islamic nannies, drivers, and janitors. Indeed, Muslim charities advertise to their donors that their aid goes to fellow Muslims — as if a dying Buddhist or Christian is less deserving of the Muslim Street's aid. In defense, officials argue that the ostracism of "charities" that funded suicide killers to the tune of $150 million has hampered their humanitarian efforts at scraping up a fifth of that sum. But then blowing apart Americans or Jews is always a higher priority than saving innocent Muslim children.

So even in death and misery, the world's pathologies remain — as Israel is disinvited to help the dying as the most benevolent United States, which freed Afghanistan and toppled Saddam, is supposedly under scrutiny to "regain" its stature for its "crimes" of jailing a mass murderer and sponsoring elections in his place. Last year alone the United States gave more direct money to Egypt and Jordan than what the entire billion-person Muslim world has given for the dead in Indonesia.

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