Rational Muslims ridicule pious brethren for blaming Nepalese natural disaster on Muslim persecution

 

FAIR-MINDED Muslims have picked up the guts to rebut their so-called narrow-minded brethren who flooded the social media attributing Wednesday’s (Aug 26) catastrophic flash floods and mudslides along the Nepal-Tibet border to “Nepalese Hindus burning down mosques and Muslim homes” a fortnight prior to the devastation.

A non-plussed Sunni Muslim Threader hit out at his Malay Muslim brethren for their inconsiderate sweeping remarks as if Nepal deserves the destruction that has befallen the nation situated right along the central and southern slopes of the Himalayan mountain range.

“The behavior of some Malay Muslims is extremely bad. How can one simply justify the mudslide tsunami disaster that hit Nepal that caused 500++ lives to be lost with an impromptu ‘You burn Quran and mosque, now Allah destroys you ’ comment,” berated one Jaja bink (@jamil_tuan).

Added the self-proclaimed 48-year-old “Anti-Madanon/Walaun”:

How do you know that the dead person is the same person who burned down the mosque? It was Hindu extremists who burned it. There’re many peaceful Hindus around. Same goes to Muslims.

 

The (mental) cancer that has infected the Malay Muslim community in this country is very bad. Very bad!!  RIP to the victims.

One non-Muslim applauded the poster for speaking up at a time when rightist Muslims would tick off the nons to stay away from Muslim affairs or “go read the Quran”.

“TBH (to be honest), it’s scary to know that many Malaysians have such low EQ (emotional intelligence) … Merdeka (independent) from the British but still colonised by their (narrow) thoughts and bad hearts,” she observed.

Fallacious divine retribution

Thus far, experts are linking the flooding devastation to glacier collapse and instability in the Himalayan mountain range with climate change also being considered as a factor.

If so, the question arises as to how it is possible that 51 Malaysians who have never been responsible in the so-called heinous act of persecuting Nepalese Muslims were among 51 of the 537 foreigners who were still missing after the flash flood disaster as per the figure released by the Nepalese tourism authority yesterday (Aug 28).

Editor’s Note: According to the country’s disaster relief agency cited by a BBC live reporting, at least 1,924 people were still missing in Nepal at the time of writing with death toll in Nepal having risen to 579 while at least five people have died in Himalayan neighbour Tibet with 558 reported missing there.

Elsewhere, Nancy Jane88 (@maizun_mastura) wondered if by the same weightage can the annual monsoon floods that devastated Kelantan be likened to divine wrath against the PAS-ruled state for having derailed from the teaching of Islam?

“Or how would you justify the bad floodings in Mecca (which is surrounded by deserts) last year,” jibed the self-proclaimed secularist and radical feminist.

“The country (Nepal) has already been hit by a terrible disaster and there’re Islamic fascists out there justifying the disaster as serve ’em right just because non-Muslims are rioting against Muslims there.

Interestingly, likeminded Muslins, too, mocked their conservative brethren for the double standards of attributing disasters that struck non-Muslims as “well-deserving” but “will regard the disasters as test (from God) when they’re at the receiving end”.

Another even clarified that the so-called sweeping statement is misplaced given that “the disaster-affected areas aren’t even close” to where Hindutva elements were accused of attacking, vandalising and setting fire to Muslim-owned properties and a historic mosque during communal unrest in southeastern Nepal in late July 2026.

Going by that argument, why did the catastrophe strike non-sinners? This is where another Muslim Eman (@amri_kiyema) chastised his brethren against becoming “the spokesman of God for once in your life”.

No need to dig up what happened three days or theee months ago just to declare, “See? This is God’s punishment”. 

 

God gave us a brain to think and a heart to empathise, not to judge people who live differently from us.

Disasters occur, people lose their homes, families, lives. … But you’re busy making your own divine conspiracy theory.

 

Maybe practise compassion first. God’s judgment isn’t your portfolio.  – Focus Malaysia