Why Are Western Countries Made To Apologise for Slavery & Colonialism but Islamic Countries aren't?

[Anglojew]

The current social milieu sponsored by the leftist dominated academia, the mainstream media, aid and human rights organisations and international political institutions -such as the UN and World Bank- is that Western, European, countries alone are responsible for colonialisation and the post-colonial legacy. The contemporary post-colonial Zeitgeist has it that Westerners all share a collective guilt for imperialism (which is out of fashion and considered almost entirely in negative terms) and as such have a duty of responsibility towards former colonies economic and social welfare.

Similarly, the contemporary West is viewed almost universally -thanks to a Marxist inspired education system- as guilty of historical "evils" such as slavery and multiple past genocides. Why are Westerners viewed as collectively guilty but Muslims and Muslim countries never viewed as responsible their own imperialist pasts?

-As many African (not to mention European slavery) slaves went to the Islamic world as the European colonies in the Americas.

-Slavery was only outlawed in many Muslim countries in the 20th century, and in places like Mauritania, still exists.

-Arab, Turkish and other Muslim powers world continues to colonise and occupy many territories (such as Kurdistan, Western Sahara, Cyprus).

-Turkey is seldom asked to apologise, or pay compensation, to its former colonies in the Balkans, and elsewhere, and has not apologised or paid compensation to the victims of the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek genocides.

-The Arabs don't have post-colonial guilt imposed on them by academic, media, political, human rights and aid organisations for their brutal historical occupations of huge swathes of territory from Spain to India, slavery and genocides.

Why does this double-standard exist?

[JoeyGee8688]

It is because when such institutions demand "apologies", they actually mean reparations, largely monetary. The Muslim world as a whole is not as rich as the West either financially or in terms of infrastructure, and one cannot demand blood from a stone; additionally, the Muslims have not yet grown soft and self-deprecating regarding their history and cultural values, so they are less likely to cave to such demands and the rest of the world knows it.

[Tooting Carmen]

Why does Israel still get "compensation" from Germany? I don't see Latin American countries getting compensation from Spain and Portugal, or African countries and India getting compensation from Britain, or North African countries from France, despite the numerous atrocities inflicted on all the above. And why do we have a Holocaust Memorial Day, but not a Gulag Memorial Day or a Colonialism Memorial Day? Now, those are egregious double standards that do indeed need investigating.

[Bloodsport]

Muslim countries were far worse slave owners than any Western country.

[Tooting Carmen]

On the other hand, I do agree that trendy NGOs tend to be often implicitly, if not explicitly, anti-Western and anti-White in their outlooks.

[Anglojew]

It is because when such institutions demand "apologies", they actually mean reparations, largely monetary. The Muslim world as a whole is not as rich as the West either financially or in terms of infrastructure, and one cannot demand blood from a stone; additionally, the Muslims have not yet grown soft and self-deprecating regarding their history and cultural values, so they are less likely to cave to such demands and the rest of the world knows it.

[Anglojew]

Why does Israel still get "compensation" from Germany? I don't see Latin American countries getting compensation from Spain and Portugal, or African countries and India getting compensation from Britain, or North African countries from France, despite the numerous atrocities inflicted on all the above. And why do we have a Holocaust Memorial Day, but not a Gulag Memorial Day or a Colonialism Memorial Day? Now, those are egregious double standards that do indeed need investigating.

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/sho...-The-Holocaust

[Sikeliot]

I'd like to also see Islamic countries apologize for their barbaric treatment of LGBT people and women, but you won't see that happen either. I absolutely hate seeing LGBT people in the West demonize Christianity and then defend Islam, when both are two sides of the same coin as far as oppression goes.

[JoeyGee8688]

Well yes. I know Qatar and the UAE aren't poor, so that's why I said "as a whole."

[Methmatician]

Doesn't answer every country but:

In Nigeria, some tribal leaders have taken the position that since slavery occurred long ago, the perpetrators of the crime own their sins and did not bequeath remorse to their descendants. In 2009, when Nigerian tribal chiefs sought a constitutional amendment formalizing their influential role in the country’s governance, the Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria, a human-rights organization, encouraged them to apologize for their role in the Atlantic slave trade.

These efforts failed—in declining to apologize, one elder told a Nigerian newspaper that his people were “not apologetic about what happened in the past,” explaining that the slave trade was “very very legal” when his forebears were involved in it. Henry Bonsu, a broadcaster researching African apologies for slavery, told The Guardian at the time that among those he interviewed in Nigeria, “People aren't milling around Lagos … moaning about why chiefs don't apologise. They are more concerned about the everyday and why they still have bad governance.” Public opinion polls reflect this concern. The corruption watchdog Transparency International ranks Nigeria among the most corrupt countries worldwide; in 2013, 72 percent of Nigerian respondents to the NGO’s corruption-perception survey reported that the problem was getting much worse.