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Hugh Fitzgerald: The Rohingyas, Aung San Suu Kyi, and the Maligning of Myanmar

Mar 19, 2017 11:55 am By Hugh Fitzgerald

According to most of the world’s media, an unfathomable tragedy has been slowly unfolding in Myanmar. The Buddhist majority, inflamed by sinister monks, has been persecuting, killing, even massacring, members of the entirely inoffensive Muslim Rohingya minority in the northern state of Rakhine (formerly, and in some places still, known as “Arakan”). The term “Rohingya” refers, as Professor Andrew Selth of Griffith University has noted, to the “Bengali Muslims who live in Arakan State…most Rohingyas arrived with the British colonialists in the 19th and 20th centuries.” Some call the attacks a “genocide.”

According to almost all reports from non-Burmese, these attacks on the Rohingya are completely indefensible and, indeed, inexplicable, the result of hysteria – assumed by one and all to be without any conceivable justification –whipped up by Buddhist monks, headed by a sinister senior monk, Ashin Parathu, who has been accused by The Guardian of “stoking religious hatred across Burma. His paranoia and fear, muddled with racist stereotypes and unfounded rumors, have helped to incite violence and spread disinformation.”

Particularly disappointing for many reporters has been what they regard as the unforgivable silence of Aung San Suu Kyi, currently the head of the Myanmar government. For Aung San Suu Kyi was formerly the leader of the nonviolent opposition to the Burmese military, placed under house arrest by the generals, then freed and awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. For more than two decades she was, for her continued defiance of the generals, and willingness to endure that house arrest, a darling of the international media. She has held a number of important government posts and is now both Foreign Minister and State Counsellor (equivalent to Prime Minister) in Myanmar.

But in her continuing refusal to condemn outright the attacks on the Rohingya, and in her insistence that in Myanmar there has been “violence on both sides,” Aung San Suu Kyi is now seen by many outside Myanmar in quite another light. Many have criticized Aung San Suu Kyi for her silence on the 2012 Rakhine State riots, when Buddhists attacked Muslims, and castigate her for what they see as her general indifference to the ongoing mistreatment of the Rohingya by Burmese Buddhists. Twenty-three Nobel laureates and other “peace activists” signed a letter in November 2016 asking Aung San Suu Kyi to speak out about the Rohingya: “Despite repeated appeals to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, we are frustrated that she has not taken any initiative to ensure full and equal citizenship rights of the Rohingyas,” their Open Letter states. “Daw Suu Kyi is the leader and is the one with the primary responsibility to lead, and lead with courage, humanity and compassion.”

Prime Minister Suu Kyi has refused to address accusations that the Muslim Rohingya may be victims of crimes against humanity, and in an interview with the BBC’s Misha Husain she refused to condemn violence against the Rohingya and denied that Muslims in Myanmar have been subject to ethnic cleansing. She insisted that the tensions in her country were due to a “climate of fear” caused by a “worldwide perception that global Muslim power is very great.” And apparently, according to some reports, she was angry that the BBC had chosen a Muslim to interview her.

What shall we make of this attitude from someone who had previously been put on a Nobel Peace Prize pedestal? Has she metamorphosed from being a moral exemplar to becoming a moral monster who needs correction, someone who, as researchers on state crime at St. Mary’s University in London claim, is “legitimising genocide”? It’s not surprising that for the giddy globe’s Great and Good, as The Economist put it, her “halo has even slipped among foreign human-rights lobbyists, disappointed at her failure to make a clear stand on behalf of the Rohingya minority” and to “give details on how her government intends to resolve the violence faced by the long-persecuted Muslim minority.” Or might it just be conceivable that the well-educated Burmese liberal Aung San Suu Kyi knows more about the Rohingyas, and the past history of Muslims in her own country, Myanmar, than do her critics, and that that knowledge makes her more studied and nuanced in her judgments, more doubtful about the Rohingya claims of innocent victimhood, and more sympathetic to the fears of the Buddhists of Myanmar?

If we examine the last 150 years of Burmese history, we may find that Madame Suu Kyi has more of a point than her foreign critics think. In 1826, after the Anglo-Burmese War, the British annexed Arakan (Rakhine State), where many of the 1.3 million Rohngyas now in Myanmar still live, to British India. And they began to encourage Indians, mainly Muslims, to move into Arakan from Bengal as cheap farm labor. They continued to encourage this migration throughout the nineteenth-century. In Akyab District, the capital of Arakan, according to the British censuses of 1872 and 1911, there was an increase in the Muslim population from 58,255 to 178,647, a tripling within forty years. At the beginning of the 20th century, migrants from Bengal were still arriving in Burma at the rate of a quarter million per year. In the peak year of 1927, 480,000 people arrived in Burma, with Rangoon in that year surpassing New York City as the greatest migration port in the world. And many of these migrants were Indian Muslims.

The Buddhist Burmese looked on helplessly at the arrival of these hundreds of thousands of Muslims, but there was nothing they could do against the policy of their British colonial masters. During World War II, the British retreat in the face of the Japanese led to a power vacuum, and simmering inter-communal tensions erupted, with the Arakanese Massacres of 1942, when 50,000 Buddhists were killed by the Rohingyas in Rakhine (Arakan) state. The Buddhists managed to mount a resistance, and some claim that they killed as many as 40,000 Rohingyas in revenge raids.

In May 1946 Rohingya leaders met with Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the Muslim leader who founded modern Pakistan, and asked that part of Rakhine state be annexed by East Pakistan. Then, when Jinnah refused to interfere in Burmese matters, they founded the Mujahid Party in in northern Arakan in 1947. The aim of the Mujahid party was initially to create an autonomous Muslim state in Arakan. The local mujahideen – that’s what the Rohingya warriors proudly called themselves — fought government forces in an attempt to have the mostly Rohingya-populated Mayu peninsula in northern Rakhine State secede from Myanmar (then Burma), and after that secession, the Rohingyas hoped that territory would be annexed by East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh). Fighting between the Rohingya and the Burmese state, then, is not a new thing; it has been going on intermittently since 1947. The Rohingya revolt eventually lost momentum in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and many of the Rohingya surrendered to government forces.

But the Muslim insurrection by the Rohingya did not disappear. It was revived in the 1970s, which in turn led to the Burmese government mounting, in 1978, a huge military operation (Operation King Dragon) that inflicted great damage on the mujahideen, and bought a decade of relative calm. But again the Rohingya rose up against the Burmese state, and in the 1990s the “Rohingya Solidarity Organisation” attacked Burmese authorities near the border with Bangladesh. In other words, this insurgency by the Muslim Rohingya has been going on – waxing and waning – for more than half a century. It is in that context that Buddhist fears of a Muslim takeover of northern Myanmar should be viewed, and taken seriously. The Burmese monks who have recently been whipping up anti-Rohingya sentiment, and attacks on them, are not behaving out of motiveless malignity; they are keenly aware of all this history. They do not want the Rohingyas to obtain citizenship, for they fear – as so many outside Myanmar do not comprehend – being swamped by Muslims outbreeding the Unbelievers. They look around the world, see that 50 million Muslims are now in Europe, that everywhere in the world Muslims are outbreeding Unbelievers, and don’t want the same thing happening to Myanmar, which they regard as the last real redoubt of Buddhism.

For them the Rohingyas are not a true indigenous people of Myanmar, but the descendants of the Muslims who began arriving from East Bengal in the 19th century. The very term “Rohingyas” only came into common usage in the last few decades. Today’s Rohingyas belong, for the Buddhist monks in present-day Myanmar who are leading the anti-Royingya campaign, to the same people who attacked Buddhists in Rakhine State in 1942, killing 50,000. They are descendants of the same people who, as self-described Jihadist warriors (“mujahideen”), conducted a violent Jihad against Burmese authorities that began in 1948 and lasted more than a decade, in order first to make Rakhine an autonomous state under Muslim control, and then to have it annexed by Pakistan. For these Buddhist monks, the Rohingya are simply Bengali Muslims who migrated south to northern Burma, and are merely the local branch of the world-wide Muslim umma that has been in continuous warfare against Buddhists and Buddhism for centuries, and is again becoming more aggressive and violent all over the world.

When those Burmese monks look next door to India, they remember that in the 12th century, Muslim invaders pillaged Buddhist monuments and monasteries, leading to Buddhism’s final decline in that country. The monks know too that the last large group of Buddhists still remaining in the subcontinent, in the Chittagong Hills tract in Bangladesh, are in danger of completely disappearing because of repeated attacks by Muslims.

They remember the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan by the Taliban, and that gigantic act of cultural vandalism reminds them of the thousands of Buddhist temples and statues and stupas and monasteries that were destroyed over the centuries by the Muslim invaders of India and its neighbors.

And then they think, too, of what Muslims have done to Hindus, in Pakistan, and Bangladesh, and especially in Kashmir, where 50,000 families of Kashmiri pandits, Hindus indigenous to Kashmir, have been forced out – to escape death — by Muslims. The mass killings of the Pandits, which almost no one in the West seemed to notice or care about, were taken note of by the Buddhists in Myanmar. They read about such things as this:

The days that followed the night of January 19, 1990 saw Kashmiri Pandits being killed in scores every day. Atrocities against KPs had become the order of the day. From Budgam to Brijbehara, from Kupwara to Kanikadal there was hardly a day when Kashmiri Pandits haven’t been killed. Most brutal forms of torture from gouging out of eyes, to cutting genitals, to burning bodies with cigarette butts and even chopping off body parts were used to kill Pandits. Sarwanand Kaul Premi, a noted scholar had nails hammered in place of his tilak. BK Ganjoo was killed in his home and his wife was asked to eat the rice soaked in his blood. Sarla Bhat a nurse was gang-raped before being killed and her naked body was thrown on the street. The killers of Ravinder Pandita of Mattan danced over his body. The bodies of Brijlal and Choti were tied to a jeep in Shopian and dragged for 10 km.

Girja Tikoo, a school teacher in Bandipora, was gang-raped before being killed. There are hundreds of such stories. One can almost write a book on the people who suffered at the hands of the terrorists while the meek and feeble Indian state looked the other way. A notorious terrorist named Bitta Karate alone killed more than 20 Pandits and had no shame accepting the same. …More than a thousand Pandits were killed, tortured and raped.

The exodus meanwhile carried on.

The Buddhists of Myanmar also noticed the long-running terrorism of two Muslim groups, Abu Sayyaf and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, in their attempt to gain independence for Muslim-majority islands in the Philippines, and have been responsible for more than 100,000 dead. And they know about the more than 30,000 attacks by Muslim terrorists since 9/11, against many different indigenous non-Muslims – Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, atheists — in China, India, Australia, Bangladesh, Russia, Israel, Great Britain, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, the United States, and the persecution and killings of Christians by Muslims in Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Pakistan, Nigeria, Algeria, Afghanistan, Tunisia, Somalia, Yemen. And every day brings fresh news, from somewhere in the world, of atrocities committed by Muslims, whether members of the Islamic State, or of Al-Qaeda, or of other groups under other names, or by lone-wolf muhajideen determined to fulfill their duty to engage in violent Jihad and kill Infidels. And they begin to think, given that so many powerful countries in the West seem unable to handle their domestic Muslim problems, and the unwillingness of the non-Muslim peoples to band together in a counter-Jihad, that they can rely only on themselves, and that history teaches them that they must strike preemptively, by way of encouraging the Rohingyas to leave Burma for the Bengal from which, the Burmese believe, the Rohnigyas originally came.

Is it any wonder that those Buddhist monks feel that it is they, their religion, their Buddhist culture, that are now imperiled, by Muslims following the same texts as those who put a virtual end to Buddhism in India, and who have carried out attacks on the last remnant of Buddhists in present-day Bangladesh, and destroyed so much of the art and artifacts of Buddhist culture in India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, China? For these monks, who are aware of how destructive a triumphant and triumphalist Islam has been for Buddhism, it is the Buddhists in Myanmar who are on the permanent defensive and, some believe, to protect themselves should preemptively strike against, and attempt to drive out, the local representatives of Islam, an aggressive and fanatical faith.

This recapitulated history is not meant as approval of any unprovoked attacks on the Rohingya. It is to suggest, rather, that before condemning the Buddhists of Myanmar with such ferocious certainty, one ought to consider the history of the Muslims in that country, when and from where they arrived, and how they have behaved toward the indigenous Buddhists over the past century. History tells a tale far more complicated than is acknowledged by those issuing these blanket denunciations of the Burmese Buddhists. If those who are now demanding of Aung San Suu Kyi, with such self-righteous indignation, that she “must” speak out about the Rohingya, were to learn a bit more about the history of Myanmar, they might not be quite so ready to denounce her. She knows what the Muslim migrant-invaders have meant for the indigenous Buddhists, and she is not unsympathetic to the fear so many Buddhists in Myanmar now feel, not because of a present threat, but of what the past has taught them about Muslim behavior, and not only in their own country, and what they fear the future may bring.

Should the history of Muslim-Buddhist relations in Myanmar be better known, with journalists taking it upon themselves to learn about, and then to transmit, this history, it is possible that the “international community” would address the current violence quite differently. Imagine the effect on Myanmar’s anxious Buddhists if those now lecturing them so unsympathetically instead demonstrated by their statements that they were well aware of the flood into Myanmar of Muslim migrants over a half-century, recognized that the inter-communal violence in 1942 had started with attacks by the Muslim side, conceded that the Rohingyas had tried for many years, as self-described mujihadeen, to seize part of Myanmar and to make it an autonomous Muslim state, and that this past, as well as the actions of Muslims toward Buddhists and Hindus, deeply affected how the Burmese Buddhists viewed their own situation.

That might help calm the Burmese Buddhists down, make them feel less anxious, now that their fears were not being cavalierly dismissed but given a sympathetic hearing. And they, in turn, might cease to attack, as they have been, the Rohingyas. After all, anyone who looks around the world today cannot avoid noticing that Muslims have been aggressively on the march, and while terrorism garners the most attention, their chief weapon is relentless demographic conquest, the very weapon that Muslims have wielded, for more than a century, in Myanmar, until the Buddhists, sufficiently alarmed, began recently to push many of them out.

Aung San Suu Kyi has steadfastly refused to denounce Myanmar’s Buddhists, a denunciation ardently desired by those who know so little of that country’s history, and she has suffered for it.

Instead of continuing to malign Aung San Suu Kyi, why not give her a chance to explain publicly why she thinks so many Buddhists are anxious about the Rohingyas. In her BBC interview mentioned earlier, she referred to a “climate of fear”(among Myanmar’s Buddhists) caused by a “worldwide perception that global Muslim power is very great.” Isn’t that “worldwide perception” correct? Isn’t that “climate of fear” one that many people, not just in Myanmar but in the most advanced states of Western Europe, now experience? Let her tell the story of the Muslim Bengali immigrants, of the Arakan Massacres of 1942 and of the Rohingyas fighting the Burmese government as mujihadeen for more than ten years, and take seriously her suggestion that all this recent history ought to be taken into account by those so quick to pronounce judgement on the conflict between the Buddhists and the Rohingyas. Giving the Buddhists that kind of hearing should bring an increase in calm, if they feel that their fears are now being taken seriously. It will be good for the Buddhists who now feel besieged in Myanmar, and salutary for Unbelievers elsewhere to be reminded that Muslim aggression is directed not just against the West, but against all the rest. Surely hearing this history lesson is worth a try.

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  1. Alexander Malinowski says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 12:27 pm

    The whole hysteria about Rohingyas is fake Muslim war propaganda. I don’t understand Western media are buying in, despite the fact that most of the proofs have been demystified as fakes like photos etc.
    Very interesting is the fact that Muslims from abroad are giving helping hand the Rohingya refugees.
    How? For example, if the family pays the human traffickers to go to Malaysia and the traffickers find an attractive young girl they take them hostage and advertise 60-years old Muslim who is eager to pay ransom in order to marry the girl. If she resists they threaten with rape that would diminish price future husband pays for a virgin.
    60 years old gets out with the new wife and feeling the Muslim charity well spent.

    • Custos Custodum says

      Mar 19, 2017 at 4:12 pm

      Note what is studiously ignored that in all the Rohingya “refugee” stories created by the Rohyngias’ Western post-modern propagandists:

      (1) Rohyngias could simply move back to next-door Bangladesh from where their ancestors immigrated. There, of course, they would have to live under a Muslim government and among the over-population caused by Muslim breeding customs.

      (2) The doctrine of jihad (after which the Rohingya call themselves muhajid) requires that Muslims kill and be killed rather than give up Muslim territory.

      (3) India manages to maintain a measure of peace between Muslims and Hindus outside flashpoints like Kashmir only because Muslim violence communities risks violent by Hindus. In other words, the relative communal peace in most of India is akin to a street gang truce.

      • Custos Custodum says

        Mar 19, 2017 at 4:14 pm

        Editing error corrected:

        India manages to maintain a measure of peace between Muslims and Hindus (apart from local flashpoints like Kashmir) only because violence by Muslim communities risks immediate violent retribution by Hindu communities.

      • Zenobia van Dongen says

        Mar 20, 2017 at 4:17 am

        Although much of what you say is true, nonetheless Burma has a long tradition of religious persecution against Christian ethnic minorities that preceded the current dustup with the Mohammedans. ,

      • Mirren10 says

        Mar 20, 2017 at 1:27 pm

        Excellent points, Custos. Especially number 1.

      • JMM says

        Mar 30, 2017 at 11:48 pm

        I am not sure that Bangladesh is interested in the Rohingya moving back. They are not considered Bangladeshi, being instead “an internal Myanmar problem”. So no, they can not just up an leave. By the way the birthrate in Bangladesh is currently 2.2 children per woman. Hardly expansive breeding.

    • Biff H says

      Mar 20, 2017 at 7:23 am

      Reserve your judgment until you read this link –

      http://shoebat.com/2017/03/18/mass-exodus-of-christians-one-hundred-thousand-christians-flee-the-buddhist-nation-of-myanmar-to-flee-major-buddhist-reign-of-terror/

      Hindus in India as well as Buddhists in Myanmar do not reserve their hatred for the other, i.e., just the Muhammadanian.

      • alex9234 says

        Mar 20, 2017 at 10:25 am

        Do not trust Shoebat. Their material is unreliable and in many cases, untrue.

        • Alakanuk Rusty says

          Mar 20, 2017 at 7:56 pm

          Thank you for pointing that out. The much maligned Hindu kings are the same who gave refuge to exiled Jews of Palastine, land for their temple, upkeep and even money to start trading again. And for next two thousand years people of Jewish religion flourished in various part of India without ever facing discrimination or persecution either for their religion or because of their race neither from the rulers, nor clergy nor common people – making Hindu India only country in the world with a spotless record as far as anti-Semitism goes. Though when Portuguese colonialist occupied Goa on India’s western coast they did murder and hound the Indian Jews out of their territory.
          The first Muslim mosque after Mecca was again built on donated land and money by a Hindu king in Kerela after he saw Arab traders praying in open in a harsh weather – didn’t stop Muslims to start butchering Hindus immediately after that and taking the toll to more than 100 million dead by the most conservative estimates in next 1000 years.
          The Zoaroastrians fleeing Arab Muslim onslaughts on Persia found refuge again on the western coast in the state of Gujarat where the local Hindu ruler settled the last of Parsis in the world giving out both land and money for their first fire temple out of Persia, settlements and to start business.
          Within 60 years after the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, Orthodox Christian preists arrived at the southern coast of India and they too recieved land grants to build their churches and settle down. Very soon one of the oldest Orthodox Syrian Church was functioning in India. There were no serious issues between Indian Christians or Hindus till the extremist evangelists appeared on scene. Even today in a country with almost 78% Hindu populations the Catholic Church is the biggest land owner and most of this land belongs to government of India on which the CoI is squatting upon yet there has never even been a demand to return it back. A Christian lady (Antonio Maino/Sonia Gandhi) just finished her ten year rule over the country elected by the same Hindu majority India, some of the most important portfolio like the Defence Minister was held by a Christian. Many of the.states including Hindu majority states in India regularly elect Christian chief ministers.
          However the bigoted abusive and unscrpluous evangelists have been busy vitiating the atmosphere and have indeed injected some bad blood between Christians and Hindus today though not between common Christians or common Hindus as yet. But how,?The anger is against the crude evangelists who abuse Hindus, their religion, traditions, gods and goddesses openly in the filthiest manner, publish hate literature against them and distribute it, lure poorest of Hindus with money to convert and then instigate them against their own non- converted brethren. They have been providing money and other means to the largest terrorist insurgency in India ie that of Maoist terrorists in the huge forests of Central India and in North East states of India in lieu of free pass to convert animist aboringinal forest dwelling tribal people. And once wherever they gain numerical superiority they start converting people by force similar to the Jehadis – giving families option to either convert or be socially, politically, economically and professionally ostracised. Ironically these evangelist and their harvested souls are aligned with the Islamists and communist terrorists and leftists thugs in India – which kind of sums it up what kind of Christians we are speaking about. There is only one major Hindu nation in the world. It’s people are friendly towards the west and Christianity both – infact Christianity arrived, was welcomed and has flourished here much before it reached Europe but if some people out of their zealotry and bigotry like Shoebet who believe that these billion plus Indians are headed to hell for eternity because they refuse to follow their alien cult then do the Hindus have a right to be not happy with them, protest and protect themselves in their own home or not? I think Hindus need the real Christians who follow the spirit of Christ not the dogma of a Church as their friends just as they have the Jews and the Israeli nations in their resistance against the Islamist and bigoted Evangelist who have no issues getting into bed with the Islamist and Communist terrorists once they reach the Indian subcontinent.

        • alex9234 says

          Mar 20, 2017 at 9:32 pm

          Thanks for the info, Alakanuk. You want to know something else about the Shoebats? They support Communist China, despite the fact that they are one of the worst offenders when it comes to Christian persecution, as well as Putin’s Russia, where preaching the gospel outside of a church can get you thrown in jail. Did you know that they’ve also smeared Shinto worshippers as well? Check the site – you’ll see what I mean.

          Walid and Theodore Shoebat are not actually evangelists. They are Catholic and represent an extreme militant faction within the Catholic Church. which is why they’ve been spreading hateful venom about the other religious groups who have been fighting Islam, and they hate all branches of Christianity except Catholic and Eastern Orthodox. The Shoebat site is a troubling matter – a site full of misleading information, Russian and Chinese state-run conspiracy propaganda points, and occasional leads that are worth pursuing. Frankly, I’ve always considered them untrustworthy, which is why I stopped reading their site over a year ago.

        • Ursula says

          Mar 20, 2017 at 11:55 pm

          When the Shoebats published an article about a year ago in which they justified Catholics driving out and killing evangelical Christians in Mexico and other South American countries, because only Catholics apparently are ‘the’ true religion and all others are evil, I unfollowed them in disgust.

          According to them, all protestant Christians go to hell. On the other hand, in my opinion, Catholicism is a cult, and their branch of it, a rather dangerous one.

        • alex9234 says

          Mar 21, 2017 at 1:01 pm

          Are you serious?! Wow, that is just, well, psychotic.

          Did you know that they also support Communist China as well?

          I’m glad I’m not the only one who sees that there’s something wrong with them.

    • S.Arasu says

      Mar 20, 2017 at 9:54 am

      @Milinowski: There may be some among the Rohingya who become Jihadis, but does that justify the murder of civilians, mass rape, and burning of villages by the Myanmar army?
      I would like to see some evidence to support your anecdote about the 60 year old Muslim etc. We should not trivialize the sufferings of these unfortunate people or mock them.
      You may want to read this article, which is closer to the truth about what happens to Rohingya who try to flee from their misery in Myanmar : https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-04-18/human-traffickers-find-easy-prey-among-myanmars-minorities

      • Raja says

        Mar 21, 2017 at 3:29 am

        No definitely not but Myanmar has no luxury of time to sieve through who is a militant and who is not.

    • pandainc says

      Mar 20, 2017 at 10:59 pm

      First, great column, Hugh, one of your best.

      One comment: “…’foreigners’… were to learn a bit more about the history of Myanmar, they might not be quite so ready to denounce her.”

      Yes, they would, unfortunately. NGOs, the international power elite, the so-called progressives, et al, are supporting these ragheads as their surrogate army. I have no idea how they think they’ll control them.

      The only way the Buddhists are going to win this little to-do is to eliminate, i.e., KILL every stinking one of them. If not, they will ultimately overcome … if it comes to push and shove, the moderates will not break away from the cult.

    • Lorna Salzman says

      Mar 21, 2017 at 1:28 pm

      Please check out Saskia Sassen’s article in the January 2017 issue of The Guardian. She makes a good case that the military are persecuting the Rohingya not for religious reasons but to carry out major land grabs on behalf of foreign investors and other development interests. Of course it is in the interest of
      Aung San Syu Ki to allow characterization of the persecution as religion-based because it disguises the
      real interest involved, which would also benefit the government. As usual the explanation is more complicated than the media imply. But in no way does this excuse what is going on. Religion is being used to cover up the truth.

  2. Irene Brekelmans says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 12:27 pm

    We don’t know for sure what is going on there, but even if half of everything is true, it is more then enough
    what muslims are doing. May be pretty soon they can ask the non muslim students to wash their feet,
    that will cost them even less time, take an example of the pope how he does it. There should not be any religion in schools. Religion you do at home and there never have to be so mosques for al the people, we did not have that many churches either, you can have different services at different times, so you don’t have to demonstrate your so called holiness out on the streets especially if you commit so many atrocities
    That does not become you and we know you are not the truth and so does God. Your laughing will go away soonAs it is the time to have peace all over the world now, you will not mess it up, otherwise you will be taken of this planet and have to start all over again somewhere else. And that is the Cosmic law , from our God which is your Allah, it is the same God, not the prophetes. I would not want to stand in your place and praise ourselves so happy, that we have a God of LOVE plus nobody dears to leave Islam because they are oppressed so much. It is so shameful.

  3. Alec Rawls says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 12:34 pm

    Orthodox Muslims are engaged in a world war with non-Muslims and should be at the least forced out of all non-Muslim countries. Not all Muslims are orthodox but those who are not are generally afraid to identify as non-orthodox, since explicit rejection of ANY of the endless murder-cult demands of orthodox Islamic sharia law is punished as apostasy and blasphemy, both death penalty crimes under orthodox Sharia law, making it very difficult to separate out the non-murder-cult Muslims for different treatment than the murder cultists. The main imperative has to be to get rid of the murder cultists and given the warring history of the Rohingyas the only way to do it is probably to send all the Muslims back to Bangladesh.

  4. AnneCrockett says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 12:42 pm

    Thank you, Hugh. The destruction of Buddhism in its Indian homeland is worthy of a post in itself. Textbooks cover it much the way that they cover the mysterious disappearance of the Coptic language in Egypt.

    I have always been quite taken with the Burmese tradition of having all the young men spend at least a little time living as Buddhist monks. It is such a beautiful country.

    • Ursula says

      Mar 20, 2017 at 11:59 pm

      The Coptic language in Egypt disappeared, because the Muslims outlawed it when taking over the country by force.

  5. tpog says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 12:43 pm

    THANK YOU for this article, Hugh Fitzgerald. How dare Western “intellectuals” go into Myanmar and criticize when they know nothing of the HISTORY!!! For Buddhists (the most peaceful people on earth) to target violent islamists says volumes. Are the Buddhists attacking other religious minorities? I don’t think so.

    I know a couple of Indian Hindus and they are wringing their hands about the future (particularly with regard to their kids and grands) that the Western world is barrelling towards with their appeasement of islam. They’ve mentioned fascism, barbaric sharia law, financial ruin because of increased security and welfare, freedom of speech, etc. They know!!!

    Kudos to PM Ang Sang for her strength. WHEN WILL THE WEST WAKE UP????

  6. SK says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 1:21 pm

    https://www.wycliffe.org.uk/blog/2016/12/seven-days-of-prayer-the-ro-of-myanmar/

    Honestly? I think I would understand putting down the insurgency, but the Burmese government is doing a lot more than that.

    • umbra says

      Mar 20, 2017 at 2:54 pm

      This is a cultural war between Buddhist Myanmar and ROP bangladeshi. Those native Burmese aren’t rolling over like europeans. When neither side in a cultural war backs down, the ultimate end result is the elimination of the defeated group. Native Burmese know this. Other indo-Chinese group know this, East Asians known this. The only ones that seem to be oblivious to this are “enlightened” europeans. Perhaps to much relativism garbage being drilled into their heads.

  7. mortimer says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 1:23 pm

    The jihad goes on as individuals are murdered by jihadists who see their murders on non-Muslims as holy war. The names do not appear in international newspapers nor the statistics of those killed every year, so the JIHAD AGAINST NON-MUSLIMS in the East goes largely unreported. It now seems that the jihad is now reported IN THE REVERSE. Counterjihad is criticized while the reason for the counterjihad would not exist if there were no JIHAD in the first place.

    That is the missing ingredient in the news: a realistic recognition of JIHAD.

  8. Vikram Chatterjee says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 1:43 pm

    Fitzgerald should refer to the country as Burma, as that is what the people prefer it to be called.

    As Aung San Suu Kyi said in an interview:

    “Well, I think it’s up to you. I’ll explain why I use Burma. Burma was known as Burma since independence. Suddenly, after the military regime took over in 1988, one day, just like that, out of the blue, without so much as a by your leave from the people, they announced that Burma was going to be known as Myanmar in English from now on officially, and it would be Myanmar at the U.N. and so on. And the reason they gave is this, that Myanmar referred to all the peoples of this country whereas Burma, first of all, is a colonial name; and secondly, it had only to do with the ethnic Burmese.

    To begin with, I object to a country’s name being changed without reference to the will of the people, without so much as the courtesy to ask the people what they might think of it. That of course is the sort of the thing only dictatorships do. So I object it to it on those grounds.”

    http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/interview/lets-not-be-overoptimistic-about-burma/article4091223.ece

    • Mac-101 says

      Mar 19, 2017 at 2:22 pm

      Thanks for the history of the name and WHY the ELITEs insist on continuing to call Burma Myanmar.
      .
      Is there a chance Burma can gain protection under the Chi-Coms. As much as I despise the Communist, they may be a better ally in the short run till the Muslim crisis explodes world wide!
      .
      So what is the population growth of the Buddhist compared to the Muslims? If the Globalist really worried about the Planet, THEY would highly encourage, and NOT reward, population growth throughout the world, especially in the poorest of the 3rd world. Muslin’s exponential population growth alone will destroy the world, let alone their barbaric behavior.

      • Angemon says

        Mar 19, 2017 at 3:09 pm

        “Is there a chance Burma can gain protection under the Chi-Coms. ”

        Because that worked so well for Tibet?

        • Mac-101 says

          Mar 19, 2017 at 3:13 pm

          True. However Burma has a little more of a history of independence from China than Tibet did. As it stands now the Globalist will sell Burma down da river in a NYC minute.

  9. Sam says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 1:55 pm

    “Poor Muslims” again.

    Forever and ever!!!!

  10. Crusades Were Right! says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 2:19 pm

    Once you understand the commie “mainstream” media are out to de-stabilise the planet to facilitate communist tyranny, then will you understand why they are so enamoured of Mohammedans.

    • Mac-101 says

      Mar 19, 2017 at 2:25 pm

      These Elites only use “Useful Idiots” under Neo Bolshevik policies to gain Total control of the sheeple, and eventually the world, to establish Satan’s Beast’s 42 month rule of the NWO!

    • Custos Custodum says

      Mar 19, 2017 at 4:38 pm

      What the globalists want to achieve is not so much 20th century communism as totalitarian power in the hands of a narrow “elite” of billionaires and an Aztec-like ruling caste with a priesthood physically sacrificing common people.

      If you think the idea of human sacrifices is overwrought, ask yourself how the propaganda lackeys of the “Left” deal with instances of individual resistance to their power. Notice how, e.g. the murder by cops of Eric Garner for selling loose cigarettes in defiance of New York’s tobacco tax has long given way to the more narrative-enhancing death of Trayvon Martin at the hands of a private individual acting in self-defense.

  11. AleX says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 2:26 pm

    Martyrdom in the name of pislam. A mujaheed that has to die in his fight against the kuffar is simply axiomatic. Hence, logically, a good jihadi is a dead jihadi [and I hope I won’t offend the religion of peace adherents].

    • Mac-101 says

      Mar 19, 2017 at 2:35 pm

      Isn’t it rather interesting that you rarely ever hear about a old devout Muslim with Terminal Cancer, let alone a major Muslim Religious leader, blowing himself up to gain ALL dem virgins? LOL!

  12. Jovial Joe says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 2:41 pm

    Notice the BBC’s vindictive little role in this story. Notice, also, the British colonialists’ role – the globalist elite of their day – in importing mass cheap labour with zero regard for the consequences. Nothing has changed there then. Finally, notice that you don’t have to be white to be accused of ‘racism’ for the ‘crime’ of seeking to preserve your non-Islamic culture. Seeking to preserve your Islamic culture is fine, however, as demonstrated by the total lack of protest regarding the genocide of the Hindu minority in Kashmir. So it is permissible for muslim majority countries (and we are talking majorities approaching 100% here due to their cleansing of every other culture within their borders), but dare to oppose Islam within ur own country and you will be considered the scum of the earth. So how to explain this double standard? In plain terms, it is a certifiable mental illness – ‘pathological altruism’ to be precise – which is the act of proving how virtuous and tolerant you are by defending or embracing those who are the most likely to kill or conquer you. Does anyone fear being killed or conquered by Buddhists? No? Then they and their concerns are disregarded and thrown under the bus along with the rest of us by those who declare themselves the most ‘tolerant’ and compassionate among us.

  13. Anon says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 3:06 pm

    I appreciate HF’s current style. I avoided reading his articles for years, because he used to write incredibly long run-on sentences. His expertise has always been admirable, and now it is enjoyable to read his articles.

  14. Pal says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 3:18 pm

    I wish ti thank Hugh Fitzgerald for his great piece of analysis.
    When there was no Rohingya in Burma,
    There was no problem in it.

    • SK says

      Mar 19, 2017 at 11:37 pm

      You’ll notice that Burma also somehow has a problem with their other minorities wanting independence, such as the “Wa” people of Shan state, not to mention the Kachin and Karen peoples, all three of which have armed groups wanting independence, but are not Muslim at all. I’m aware that with Muslims, this kind of thing often ends up with intricately connected theological overtones which attract foreigners.

      So the Burma conflict is actually bigger than just Rohingya Muslims.

  15. brane pilot says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 3:52 pm

    Islam uses demography as a weapon of conquest.
    The West uses demography as a path to self annihilation.
    It is a perfect storm, and will not end well.

  16. No Fear says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 4:53 pm

    Thanks Hugh. I did not know about the history of the Rohingya.

  17. Richard says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 5:05 pm

    This is just an incredible web site!! There is so very much here I had never heard of. You are doing a great service. The British also imported thousands of Indians into Africa. I do not know if they were/are Muslims. I suppose you know when India and Pakistan were partitioned for the Hindu/Muslim religious reasons, trains carrying the expelled populations from one nation to another were stopped and men go on and cut off women’s breasts so their babies would starve. I don’t know which side did this, or if both did.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Mar 19, 2017 at 5:35 pm

      Under the British raj – some of whose bureaucrats were infected with Islamophilia – many Indians were moved to Fiji in the South Pacific also, and to British Guiana in Latin America, and of course, to East Africa. Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean is another spot where Indians migrated or were encouraged to move.

      Some were Hindus or Sikhs, and have caused no particular problems. But not a few were Muslims; and over time, of course, they have multiplied (some among them might well have deliberately taken advantage of the opportunity to move, in order to spread Islam by ‘migration) and now they are getting more aggressive and dangerous in all of those places. Trinidad and Fiji are particularly problematic.

  18. Michael Copeland says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 5:11 pm

    “You can be full of love and peace but you cannot sleep next to a mad dog”
    Ashin Wirathu, Buddhist monk, Myanmar

  19. Rosewood11 says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 5:19 pm

    Let’s see. There are muslims killing Christians and Jews in the Middle East, muslims threatening Christian Russia, muslims attacking Christians in the Philippines–among other religious groups, muslims fighting with Hindus in India, muslims attacking Christians and animists in Africa, muslims now going after Buddhists in Myanmar. Does anyone detect a pattern here?

    And let’s talk about the Buddhists–who gave the world the Dali Lama!!! Yes, I’m sure there are violent incidences in their past just like with the other religions named above, but overall, the Buddhists are known for promoting peace. The muslims have even managed to get the Buddhists’ knickers in a wad,” and that takes some doing.

    Here’s my solution: Deport all muslims from whatever country they are in back to their home country. They are then forbidden from ever leaving it, and other countries are forbidden to travel to where they are. Let them eat their oil, and fight with each other. Put a WALL around them, and give them all the guns and ammo they need to kill each other off. Or once you have them back “home”, “nuke ’em til they glow, then shoot ’em in the dark.” Not terribly Christian, but effective.

    • Alakanuk Rusty says

      Mar 21, 2017 at 11:23 pm

      Well said! You know according to the first census conducted in Pakistan in 1951 (4 years after it’s formation) there had a robust minority population upwards of 15% in West Pakistan (now just Pakistan and 15%+ minority population of predominantly Hindu, Sikh, Christian and lesser of Buddhists, Jains, Parsi and even few hundred Jews) and a whooping 36% in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh with Hindus, Christians and Buddhists making up most of that 36%).

      However in just two generations or 50-55 years they have successfully decimated 15%+ to barely 2.5% in Pakistan And managed to reduce the 36 % to less than 8% during the same period – through silent yet relentless and effective genocides, forced conversion, rampant abduction of girl child from non Muslim families and ethnic cleansing by forcing the non Muslims into exile. Not to forget together these two countries have a total population of anywhere between 350 to 400 million. Which means from a 27% combined non Muslim population reduced to 5.5% in in just 50-55 years (getting rid of approximately 80 million people!!)

  20. Eric Jones says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 5:25 pm

    This is an excellent article. i have waited for this situation to be addressed in the Western press for some time. In many websites and magazines you will see an ad about Rothingya refugees. In the ad you see a picture of a young girl standing outside a refugee camp. Rothingya men with weapons are never shown.

    Obama went to Myanmar a number of years ago. I was afraid that he would try to sneak some Rothingya refugees into the USA. I do not know if he succeeded or not. Congress and Trump must be alerted not to let any Rothingya into the USA. I concur that the violence is tragic in all regards.

    Eric

  21. pdxnag says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 5:50 pm

    All I see is that calm can be had only after the last Muslim invader is expelled. Always demand no less than apostasy from Islam. There is no alternative anywhere.

  22. RodSerling says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 5:57 pm

    Thanks for this historical context, Hugh.

  23. Pauline says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 7:05 pm

    It is a pity that this article cannot achieve a wider audience other than with those who read Jihadwatch or New English Review. When the Rohingya problem first came to light a few years ago I did read articles in the MSM that explained the history of their presence in Burma, but not any more. Now there is a world wide push to vilify the Buddhists there and portray the ‘victimhood’ of the muslim population. If the truth is not more widely known, Burma may soon become as internationally marginalised as Israel.

  24. Baucent says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 8:42 pm

    As someone who lives in Asia and has taken an interest in this issue for some time, I think the writer has rather misunderstood that the rise of Buddhist militancy is not exclusively a Burmese Muslim immigrant issue. In fact a strain of militant Buddhism is on the rise, for some time now in particularly Sri Lanka and also Burma and some lessor extent in Thailand. In is notable that the issue is encroachment of other religions but that includes Christianity as well. There are cases particularly in Sri Lanka of Buddhist monks and followers attacking churches as well as mosques. A few isolated attacks on churches have occurred in Thailand in recent years by monks. Whether this militant Buddhism grows into something like the militant Hinduism seen in parts of India, remains to be seen. But what has happened in Burma, should not be exclusively seen as just a reaction solely to Islam. That is an oversimplification. Christianity in Burma has been curtailed for many years.As it has in Buddhist Laos.

  25. jewdog says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 8:47 pm

    As usual, the liberal-left refuses to seriously consider the justifiable concerns that people have about Muslims. The result is the creation of a political vacuum which tends to be filled by those who do take those concerns seriously. Hence the rise of Wilders and the his colleagues in Europe, and more demagogic elements elsewhere.

  26. TheOldOligarch says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 9:51 pm

    I don’t know anything about Burma and I don’t care. Obviously the Muslims are the problem, as they are everywhere, and the Buddhists are just defending themselves. I have no intention of doing the work of looking into it to verify that.

  27. JMB says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 9:54 pm

    The Rohingyas, another minority group of Muslims all seeking refuge in the west. They already have a very active and established community here in Australia.

    But, what about PM Aung San Suu Kyi in all of this? The “International community” lobbied tirelessly for her cause and reinstatement into Burma’s political system for many decades. Surely it is up to PM Ang San to sort out this problem without it becoming yet another Muslim refugee crisis. Incidentally these people all look like Bangladeshis, perhaps that is where they belong, not in suburban Melbourne or Montreal.

    It is strange that there was no Rohingya problem when the generals were running Burma.

  28. Matthieu Baudin says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 10:36 pm

    “… Or might it just be conceivable that the well-educated Burmese liberal Aung San Suu Kyi knows more about the Rohingyas, and the past history of Muslims in her own country, Myanmar, than do her critics, and that that knowledge makes her more studied and nuanced in her judgments, more doubtful about the Rohingya claims of innocent victimhood, and more sympathetic to the fears of the Buddhists of Myanmar?..”

    After spending so long working towards civilian rule and getting the military back into the barracks, why shouldn’t ethnic Burmese in Burma stand up to possible encroachment by Jihad Sympathisers in an age of International Jihad Terror. Thanks Hugh for giving some credit to Suu Kyi and others for their determination not to make hurried judgements and statements about this conflict while under considerable pressure from foreign agencies and groups.

  29. Northern Virginiastan says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 10:44 pm

    I have read that Rohingya Muslims are settling in Kashmir.

  30. reyol says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 11:46 pm

    Buddhist monks need peace in order to attain enlightenment. If there is no peace, their meditation is for naught. If they must take up arms, they risk severe karmic consequences. Mohammedans need war in order to gain paradise. If there is no war, their prayers count for little. If they avoid taking up arms, they risk severe hellish torment. That is why the whole narrative of “Buddhist majority, inflamed by sinister monks, has been persecuting, killing, even massacring, members of the entirely inoffensive Muslim Rohingya minority” makes no sense whatsoever. Since Buddhism has been a favored ABC (anything but Christianity) religion in the West, the people who write this pap should know that it is not possible for a Buddhist monk to go on the warpath without a very good reason.

    • reyol says

      Mar 20, 2017 at 10:40 pm

      Yes, that is true for Hindus too. They have a similar karmic consequence if they fill their hearts with hate and commit atrocities in combat. Not so for Mohammedans. Christians can wage Just War but not hate their enemies. Jews must observe strict ethical standards when they wage war. But I spoke of Buddhists because the the article is about the relationship of the Muslim Rohingyas and the Burmese Buddhists.

  31. Dacritic says

    Mar 20, 2017 at 5:12 am

    Islam is a fucking disease.

    • Jeanette says

      Mar 20, 2017 at 2:16 pm

      Islam is a Satanic cult.

      Allah is Satan parading as a different deity.

    • Ted says

      Mar 21, 2017 at 3:55 am

      I myself really don’t give a FUCK what these people do where they live, I only care about these assholes wanting to leave their countries because they have made their own so violent and intolerant. They now want to come into our countries and expect to continue this behaviour here. The only problem is we are not going to tolerate this and this will cause a problem and our countries will become what they couldn’t stand where they came from. Don’t ever let your Governments take your firearms. Don’t let our countries become what we see in Europe. I am an older immigrant from England and I was 2 when we came here and have lived here for 68 years. I have no-where to go and I like it the way it is here now.

  32. Don Foss says

    Mar 20, 2017 at 7:35 am

    The entire Infidel world has a lot to learn from the Chinese on how to deal with Muslim populations within their borders. The Japanese take a much less violent, but still effective way of dealing with Islam. They’re both smart. We’re dumb.

    • alex9234 says

      Mar 20, 2017 at 10:37 am

      Unfortunately, China has made Muslims exempt from the One Child policy and they allow them to carry knives as a cultural sop. They also censor counter-jihad sites to help “fight” terrorism:

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/11/china-says-internet-censorship-needed-to-fight-terrorism

      It is not just the West that appeases Islam. China is also one of the worst offenders when it comes to Christian persecution, and the Chinese also fund jihadists in Pakistan, and they sold U.S. made technology to Iran.

  33. Jennifer says

    Mar 20, 2017 at 7:54 am

    Muslims – causing nothing but trouble since 622.

  34. Mic Lawler says

    Mar 20, 2017 at 8:10 am

    Sadly the only time the mations and peoples of the earth have had peace with muslims has been when the islamic states have been beat down and held in check. Islam has been a pernicious instrument of barbaric ignorance, hatred, murder, mutilation, rape, and oppression since it’s inception

  35. Martel says

    Mar 20, 2017 at 8:59 am

    I was watching the Thai news on these matters and the poor victimized muslim narrative was nowhere to be seen. They mentioned the actions by the Buddhists as a form of defensive action after years of abuse to Buddhist communities.

    The Thai news editing being informed by years of hard lessons at the hands of violent Islamic jihadi in southern Thailand and recently in Bangkok at the hands of Chinese Uighar.
    The Chinese are building a Great iron wall around their restive Islamic state, and the Indians have already surrounded Bangladesh with the great Indo- Bangla security wall…Donald looks like he has a lot of like minded leaders in the world who realise what needs to be done to hem in rampant islamists.

  36. JIMJFOX says

    Mar 20, 2017 at 9:09 am

    O/T?- one Yasser Arafat also won a Nobel peace prize whilst heading the terrorist PLO.
    Don’t hear similar criticism of that bast@rd, do we?

  37. Anne Smith says

    Mar 20, 2017 at 9:20 am

    Mishal Hussain is an aggressive interviewer and seems to get very vocal when interviewing anyone who is not a left wing progressive. She does the Today programme and comes over as extremely pushy and pleased with herself.

  38. Troybeam says

    Mar 20, 2017 at 11:36 am

    Monks have a history of being peaceful however when threatened Monks will make a stand for themselves or they will see their population shrink by Islamic attacks, we in the west should pay attention to self preservation.

  39. solange silverman says

    Mar 20, 2017 at 12:32 pm

    Once the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the likes of Arafat and Obama, it ceased to have any true meaning or value and became a farce. So, this woman receiving the award means nothing. She is above no one.

    • umbra says

      Mar 20, 2017 at 3:09 pm

      The uselessness of the peace prize, when handed out to a PLO terrorist and a person who has not earned anything prior, says more about the committee than those recipients themselves.

      • Tom W Harris says

        Mar 21, 2017 at 12:07 am

        Maybe it should be renamed the “Piece Prize.”

  40. mark says

    Mar 20, 2017 at 3:01 pm

    Sickenly tv licence payers in the uk are funding the BBC’s, a now most loathsome entity, series of programs all designed to make out muslims are the victims in many countries, the latest being as per the article.

    I caught the fake news about the rohingyas tv program, maybe half way through…. but needless to say, I did not presume that the bbc had shown any pictures of the headless bodies of budhist men woman or children decapitated by the muslims.

  41. Dennis 4X says

    Mar 21, 2017 at 7:08 am

    Awesome Article. So detailed, and so poignant!

    It opens a window into the plight of Buddhists in the region.

    God bless Hugh Fitzgerald, and God bless Jihad Watch!

  42. ScottM says

    Mar 21, 2017 at 7:54 am

    Indonesian muslims have been committing a real genocide in West Papua for decades. Nobody seems to care, rarely even reported. The West , especially the UN and Australia have been absolutely complicit in allowing this happen and continue.

    The more you learn about islam, the more you realise that it truly is the most disgusting, evil thing ever invented by Man.

  43. Mazo says

    Apr 4, 2017 at 11:53 pm

    Hui Muslim Panthays live in Myanmar as peaceful citizens with Burmese Buddhists. The Burmese gave citizenship to Hui Muslim immigrants from China in the 1800s who settled and traded in Burmese cities. Now there are Hui Mosques in many Myanmar cities living peacefully next to the Burmese Buddhist people.

    The diseased and sick western media is trying to play up religious conflict with Rohingya terrorists as a religious war by Buddhists and Muslims and deny the existence of the Hui Muslim Panthay community which lives in Myanmar with no religious and ethnic conflict against Burmese Buddhist people.

    Rohingyas were agents of Britain, evil agents of the British empire and British imperialism.

    • Mazo says

      Apr 5, 2017 at 12:02 am

      Hui Muslim Panthays and Kamein Muslims in Myanmar wrote a letter telling Najib Razak to fu-ck off when he tried butting in to support the Rohingya.

      Western reporters can go into any Hui Muslim Panthay Mosque in Myanmar and ask them their opinion on how they feel about westerners maligning their country.

  44. Thein Maung says

    May 5, 2017 at 11:51 am

    This is an excellent article by Hugh Fitzgerald providing the background unbiased information to an otherwise complicated and for most an emotional issue.

    The article appropriately points to the British being responsible for the initial demographic invasion of Rakhine state, Myanmar, by Bengali Muslims (mostly from Chittagong district of Bangladesh). Since then a confluence of international interests have led to the crisis as we see it today.

    Bangladesh – Myanmar’s neighboring country, the most overpopulated country in the world (approaching 200 million) and a breeding ground for jihadi terror, needs to relocate 50 million to other parts of the world. It’s has an eye for the territory of Myanmar with only 50 million people with an area 10 times as large as Bangladesh.

    Saudi Arabia – With Salifi Islamic ideology and petro$$, Saudis are playing the game of “Godfather” to poor countries like Bangladesh and ever encouraging to the goal of islamization of the world.

    Pakistan – A failed islamic state and an arch enemy to India, acting as an agent of Saudi Arabia, providing logistic support to islamic terrorists in Bangladesh and Myanmar.

    Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) specifically Malaysia and Indonesia – Agents of Saudi interests and providing cover for jihadi terror in Myanmar

    US and western governments – In the book Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion and Foreign Policy, Kelly M. Greenhill, US foreign policy consultant, ..coercive engineered migration is a strategy which has been used by governments to gain concessions from other governments. In other words, (western governments, George Soros and their islamic collaborators) often use (Bengali Muslim) refugees as weapons in order to exert pressure on other governments (Myanmar) for political ends (to contain China and spread islam)…

    SUMMARY:
    In the 19th century the British Empire organised the mass migration of Bengali Muslims to Burma to work plantations in the predominantly Buddhist Rakhine State. The purpose of the migration was to create an artificial ruling class that would depend on the protection of the British Empire. The result was more than a century of tension with the indigenous Buddhist inhabitants and the Muslim settlers, a tension that has led to the ethnic cleansing of today, whereby Takfiri fanatics, financed by Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are committing genocide through muslim Bangladesh against local Buddhist peasants with the full complicity of UN, ‘human rights’ organizations and noble laureates, NGOs (George Soros) and the mass media as part of a US geostrategic initiative to “kossovise” the Rakhine State by separating it from Myanmar, thereby securing a foothold for Western neo-colonial interests in the highly strategic Bay of Bengal. The so-called ‘Rohingya crisis’ attests to a new phase in imperialist policy; namely, the ruthless weaponization of the refugee….

    REAL VICTIMS
    The real victim here are the small indigenous Rakhine ethnic people from Myanmar (of about 3 million) who remain voiceless and unheard from but who have been clinging to their Buddhist religion for over 2,500 years (the only people on earth who can claim that to be Buddhists since the time of Buddha) against the continuous onslaught of jihadi terror for centuries, while other predominately Buddhist and Hindu countries in south east Asia like present day Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, etc.. have succumbed to islamization.

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