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Thread #76827 Message #1367774
Posted By: CarolC
31-Dec-04 - 12:09 AM
Thread Name: BS: earthquake, related tsunami bring death
Subject: RE: BS: earthquake, related tsunami bring death
As far as sums of money go though, check this one out. As far as impressing the Muslim community - yeah right, see what the Muslim community does for its own.
Ok, I did. Here's the text contained in your link:
RIYADH, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Oil-rich Saudi Arabia pledged on Tuesday a $10 million aid package to victims of the tsunami disaster in Asia, which officials say has killed more than 59,000 people and affected millions of others.
A statement on the official Saudi Press Agency said the country would donate $5 million worth of food, tents and medicine, to be transported and distributed via the Saudi Red Crescent.
Another $5 million in funds will be given to several international aid groups such as the Red Cross and the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, the statement added.
Neighbouring Gulf country Kuwait has pledged a little over $2 million in aid. The United Arab Emirates will donate 30 tonnes of food, blankets and clothing to the victims.
Aid agencies struggled on Tuesday to cope with the scale of the disaster. The United Nations said communities would require billions of dollars to help them recover.
The GDP of Saudi Arabia is approximately 31 percent of the GDP of the US (the GDP being a fairly good measure of available resources of a country). According to the article in your link, Saudi Arabia has committed 10 million dollars. According to the figures given in the posts preceding yours, the US had committed 35 million dollars. So that would mean that the amount committed to by the US as of the time of your post (as far as we can tell using the information in this thread), was only about three percent greater than that of Saudi Arabia in terms of percentage of available resources.
I have some difficulty understanding why you would choose a thread about a tragedy of the magnitude of this one to make such a bigoted hatemongering post.