{"id":9891,"date":"2010-09-20T09:44:55","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T13:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=9891"},"modified":"2010-09-20T09:44:55","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T13:44:55","slug":"bishop-michael-bishop-nazir-ali-on-pakistan-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/bishop-michael-bishop-nazir-ali-on-pakistan-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Michael Bishop Nazir-Ali on Pakistan aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/news.smh.com.au\/breaking-news-national\/bishop-warns-of-aid-naivety-20100920-15iug.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A senior Christian leader has warned much of the aid flowing into Pakistan to help deal with massive flooding may never be used for relief.<\/p>\n<p>Retired Anglican bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, a Pakistani national who has spent much of his life in Britain, is visiting Australia to discuss issues around Islam and its growth in the West.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The misery that the (Pakistani) people are in has been caused, to some extent, by corruption and incompetence,&#8221; Bishop Nazir-Ali told reporters in Canberra on Monday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Much of Western aid to third world nations seems to be used to prop up corrupt and despotic regimes. Short of a civilising colonial incursion, there probably isn\u2019t a solution and, as Malcolm Muggeridge used to say, \u00a0Western aid tends to earn its givers the undying contempt of the recipients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: A senior Christian leader has warned much of the aid flowing into Pakistan to help deal with massive flooding may never be used for relief. Retired Anglican bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, a Pakistani national who has spent much of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/bishop-michael-bishop-nazir-ali-on-pakistan-aid\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[325],"tags":[502,1195,2283],"class_list":["post-9891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-western-aid","tag-bishop-michael-bishop-nazir-ali","tag-pakistan","tag-western-aid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}