Organization of Islamic Cooperation wants
international pressure on Burma over Rohingya Muslims, by Ann Corcoran 5/10/18
My
first thought when I saw this news, that the OIC was again ginning up a PR
campaign to paint the Burma (Myanmar) Buddhist government as a bunch of
Islamophobes and human right abusers, was this:
So why aren’t any of you big mouth countries displaying Muslim charity
and inviting Rohingya to live in your countries? Where are you Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the
UAE?
No fear! Burmese monks marched against
the OIC in 2012:
http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=51,11144,0,0,1,0#.WvQvj4gvw2w
Readers
DO NOT FORGET! The US has invited 14,882 Rohingya in the last ten years to live in
your towns. And, they are still arriving now even under the Trump Administration.
But, they are not being
“welcomed” in to rich Muslim countries!
Here
is the news from AFP: Islamic nations seek global pressure on
Myanmar over refugee crisis. Islamic foreign ministers on Sunday launched a
campaign to mobilize international support for action against Myanmar over the
Rohingya refugee crisis, officials said. Foreign ministers and diplomats of the
53-member Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) set up a campaign committee
during two days of talks in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka.
Al-Othaimeen said Muslim nations had to
“pressure the international community” to come down hard on Burma’s
Buddhists! OIC secretary general Yousef bin Ahmed Al-Othaimeen called the
move a key step toward ending a crisis caused by the exodus of about 700,000
Muslim Rohingya from Buddhist-majority Myanmar into camps in Bangladesh.
He
said the new committee would “mobilize and coordinate international political
support for accountability for human rights violations against the Rohingya
community.”
“This
is very important. This is one of the concrete steps that has been taken to
alleviate the problem for our (Rohingya) brothers and sisters,” he said.
Hey!
One concrete step would be for you, member states of the OIC, to resettle the
Rohingya community in your countries!
AFP
continues……Al-Othaimeen
said Muslim nations had to “pressure the international community”. The Rohingya have been persecuted for
decades in Myanmar, where they
are regarded as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and denied citizenship.
More here.
I
have been following the Rohingya controversy for over ten years (223 previous posts!) and can assure you that on many
occasions the Rohingya were not the victims, but the perpetrators of violence.
The OIC is smarting because Burma (Myanmar) refused them entry to the
country a few years ago.
If
there is to be a media pressure campaign, it should be a campaign against
the members of the OIC for not taking in their Muslim “brothers
and sisters.”
Cut the BS! We all know this is about the hijra and turning one nation
after another in to an Islamic country!
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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