Extra, Extra, read all about it:
SAUDI ARABIA HAS 100,000
AIR CONDITIONED TENTS THAT CAN HOUSE 3 MILLION PEOPLE SITTING EMPTY ...., YET HAS
TAKEN ZERO REFUGEES!
(While
Europe takes the burden of the migrant crisis.)
Folks, Wahhabism is the brand of Islam that Saudi Arabia is exporting to the rest of the world with their oil money ....., and it is this sect that is responsible for the vast majority of terrorist acts around the world, AND YET SAUDI REFUSES TO TAKE IN ANY OF THE REFUGEES THAT THEIR FANATICS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR!
BUT: While
European countries are being lectured about their failure to take in enough
refugees, Saudi Arabia –
which has taken in precisely zero migrants – has 100,000 air conditioned tents
that can house over 3 million people sitting empty.
The sprawling network of
high quality tents are located in the city of Mina, spreading across a 20
square km valley, and are only used for 5 days of the year by Hajj pilgrims. As
the website Amusing Planet reports,
“For the rest of the year, Mina remains pretty much deserted.”
The tents, which measure
8 meters by 8 meters, were permanently constructed by the Saudi government in
the 1990’s and were upgraded in 1997 to be fire proof. They are divided into
camps which include kitchen and bathroom facilities.
The tents could provide
shelter for almost all of the 4 million Syrian refugees that
have been displaced by the country’s civil war, which was partly exacerbated by
Saudi Arabia’s role in funding and arming jihadist
groups.
However, as the Washington Post reports,
wealthy Gulf Arab nations like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and others have
taken in precisely zero Syrian refugees. Although Saudi Arabia claims it has
taken in 500,000 Syrians since 2011, rights groups point out that these people
are not allowed to register as migrants. Many of them are also legal immigrants
who moved there for work. In comparison, Lebanon has accepted 1.3 million
refugees – more than a quarter of its population.
While it refuses to take
in any more refugees, Saudi Arabia has offered to build 200 mosques for
the 500,000 migrants a year expected to pour into Germany.
Saudis argue that the
tents in Mina are needed to host the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, but
given that the Arabic concept of Ummah is supposed to offer protection to all
Muslims under one brotherhood, surely an alternative location could be found so
that Mina can be repurposed to house desperate families fleeing war and ISIS
persecution?
The likelihood of the
Saudis inviting Syrian refugees to stay in Mina is virtually zero, but the
thousands of empty tents serve as a physical representation of the hypocrisy shared
by wealthy Gulf Arab states when it comes to helping with the crisis.
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