We Muslims just love to get up and protest when they have nothing better to do. There I have said it. But why do we pick and choose our grievances?

Why do we feel so aggrieved when only Muslims are victims? And more importantly why do we pick our battles and wars?

In recent weeks there has been widespread condemnation of the atrocities being committed in Burma. And rightly so. I, like many others, would demand the Burmese government be tried for war crimes.

This is genocide plain and simple.

There have been the familiar faces raising their heads on social media trying to rally up other Muslims to this ‘new cause.’ But it isn’t a new cause is it?

It isn’t something that has ‘just happened.’ It has been going on for years. Just because a few media outlets have finally bothered to highlight these killings we find ourselves drawn to the cause.

What I find a little puzzling is that we kind of stayed quiet when the Saudi Arabians dropped bombs on Yemen and we as the British Government, our allies and the Russians have been bombing homes in Syria for the best part of three years.

The point is we Muslims have become the reactionary types who want to do things in the hope it will a) help to quell my guilt for being completely helpless and b) let other people know that I actually did something – ideally through my social media postings and c) we feel that we are in some helping the ‘Muslim Ummah.’ Don’t tell me that ‘we must do something then.’ Because I actually feel you should. But don’t just sit up and try to back the 'trendy' causes.

We won’t say anything about the Yemen slaughter because many of us are privately supporting the slaughter of Shia’s. The victims are Shia’s and we could not possibly get our banners out for them.

Palestine is quite clearly the ‘coolest’ cause of the lot because it ticks all the boxes. It allows some Muslims to secretly vent their frustrations on those of another faith and also to highlight the double standards of western policies in the region.

The whole process of demonstrations is tied in with the charitable campaigns. Soon enough the Muslim charities will be badgering us for money and we know full well that most of you cannot possibly get to the disaster zone.

Want to donate to the cause – give it to the established international charities not to those that falsely claim that 100% of your money will go the victims.

We know this is simply not possible in this day and age yet we will fall for it every time. The only way that is happening is if you get up off Playstations and travel into the heart of the refugee camps yourself.

I am all for protests and demonstrations and letting the powers that be know we actually do care.

But let’s not kid ourselves. We like to sit up and gets a conscious when it suits us.