Hyderabad, May 5 -- From the shocking reports of Saudi Arabia deporting Uyghur Muslims back to China to be persecuted, to seeing bearded Muslim men of Chechen militia led by Ramzan Kadyrov fighting Russian President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine, the question returns: why are the leaders of the Muslim World silent and inactive in the face of Muslim persecution?

"Some have made Washington their Kaaba, while others have turned towards Moscow," was a remark made by Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi, a 20th century Islamic thinker during the start of the cold-war about leaders of the Muslim world (Kaaba located in the holy city of Mecca is the direction in which all Muslims turn towards while worshipping). The cold-war has strictly speaking ended. Howe...