Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 November 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade
Situation in Syria and Middle East: Dr. Nader Hashemi
2:55 pm
Jim Walsh (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
Why do so few Muslim leaders and Muslim states condemn these atrocities? The condemnation of these atrocities seems to be absent. Dr. Hashemi referred to the role of Saudi Arabia, but Qatar has a role. Not alone are these countries funnelling the ideology, they are also funding it.
Looking at other authoritarian regimes in the Arab world, when they move to what appears to be more democratic structures, it transpires that the minorities, who had lived there peacefully for 1,000 years under some of these authoritarian rulers, now find themselves being targeted and rooted out. That is a major scandal.
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