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Islamic Republic of Pakistan fueling unrest against Buddhists in Myanmar

Sep 16, 2017 2:30 pm By Robert Spencer

“The international community has questioned Myanmar for the crisis but has forgotten the bloody contribution of Pakistan-based jihadist groups to this catastrophe. There is now evidence that little known AMM had emerged from Harkat-ul-Jihad Islami Arakan (HUJI-A), a Pakistan-based extremist outfit involved in espousing the Rohingya Muslim cause in Myanmar….Intelligence agencies believe that Rohingya militant activities concentrated in Bangladesh’s Chittagong area and Thailand’s Mae Sot, Tak province have the sanction of the Pakistani deep state.”

We have seen Pakistani government involvement in jihad activity before, notably in connection with the Mumbai jihad massacre.

“Pakistan is fuelling unrest in Myanmar’s backyard,” by Shishir Gupta, Hindustan Times, September 15, 2017:

The UN Security Council has criticised the Myanmar government for condoning violence against Rohingya Muslims in its Rakhine State leading to a humanitarian crisis with lakhs fleeing to neighbouring Bangladesh fearing persecution. The current crisis is the fallout of a coordinated attack on multiple police posts on August 25 by more than 150 Rohingya militants in Maungdaw, Buthidaung and Rathedaung townships in the north Rakhine State.

The same night, 12 Myanmarese troopers died after militants claiming to belong to Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army tried to attack an army base. More than 80 Rohingya Muslims died in the attack. Last year on October 9, the Rohingya militants attacked three police posts in Maungdaw Township, resulting in the death of nine policemen and looting of arms and ammunition.

Myanmar President Htin Kyaw held Rohingya militant group Aqa Mul Mujahideen (AMM) responsible for the attack. The Rohingya crisis has turned State Councillor Aung San Suu Kyi, once a darling of the West into a devil, for not being able to stop the tribal violence against the minority community. Apart from the UNSC, Pakistan issued a statement on September 3 expressing deep concern over the growing number of deaths and forced displacement of Rohingya Muslims. Islamic fundamentalists such as the Afghan Taliban, Al Qaida’s Yemen Branch, Lashkar-e-Tayyeba, Jaish-e-Mohammed and other groups have called for attacks on Myanmar authorities in support of the Rohingyas.

There is an urgent need for de-escalation in levels of violence in Rakhine State as there is a strong possibility of other displaced Rohingyas being radicalised by Sunni fundamentalist groups including the Bangladesh chapter of the Islamic State to take to arms. The Rohingya displacement is a matter of serious concern but the root cause of increased animosity among the Burmans and other ethnic groups against the minority community should also not be glossed over. The international community has questioned Myanmar for the crisis but has forgotten the bloody contribution of Pakistan-based jihadist groups to this catastrophe. There is now evidence that little known AMM had emerged from Harkat-ul-Jihad Islami Arakan (HUJI-A), a Pakistan-based extremist outfit involved in espousing the Rohingya Muslim cause in Myanmar. The HUJI-A is headed by Abdus Qadoos Burmi, a Pakistani national of Rohingya origin, closely associated with LeT chief Hafiz Saeed for militant and explosive training for radicalised Rohingya cadres. According to information available with intelligence agencies in Bangladesh and Myanmar, AMM leader Hafiz Tohar aka Abu Aman Jununi was recruited by Burmi from Kyuak Pyin Siek village of Maungdaw and trained in Pakistan. After training a few AMM recruits, new cadres were recruited from among the Rohingya youth in Rakhine State and refugee camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazaar. The AMM cadre was trained along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, which saw large-scale testing of improvised explosive devices in 2014. The role of Pakistan-based groups was revealed during an IED blast at Buthidaung Township on May 4 this year. Investigations revealed that two out of four killed while assembling the device were Pakistani nationals and the remaining two were local Rohingyas from the same township. The Pakistani nationals of Rohingya origin were identified as Abdul Rahim and Anarthullah, who had returned to Rakhine State after spending 20 years away in Af-Pak region.

Intelligence agencies believe that Rohingya militant activities concentrated in Bangladesh’s Chittagong area and Thailand’s Mae Sot, Tak province have the sanction of the Pakistani deep state. Frequent movements of Maulana Ustad Wazeer aka Noor Kabir and Fareed Faizullah, both Pakistani nationals of Rohingya origin, to the Thai border have been noted by intelligence agencies for getting cadres indoctrinated and trained in insurgent activities. In May 2016, Omar Faruk aka RSO Faruk of the LeT-backed Rohingya Solidarity Organization (RSO) was arrested from Chittagong for attacking the Bangladesh ANSAR camp at Teknaf, looting weapons and killing the troop commander….

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  1. Dennis says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 2:48 pm

    I lived a peaceful life in Myanmar, going to Buddhist meditation centers and temples. the Burmese, though having a poor economic level were extremely kind and gracious inviting me into their homes and sharing their food. I can not believe that they intentionally, without reason attack the Rohinghas. I am sure that there are foreign Muslim agitators there stimulating hatred and violence against anyone who is not Muslim. I also lived in southern Thailand where the Muslims were killing and stirring up violence against the local Buddhist population. Muslims are always placing the blame on others. A friend of mine in
    Bangladesh wrote me several years ago about how Muslims came into his Buddhist neighborhood, burnt down two temples, killed an aged monk and set fire to most of the Buddhist homes. that i believe did not make western news. when the Buddhist people rose up and burnt down a mosque, set fire to homes,etc. that did make news causing the western people to blame the Buddhists, but not the Muslims.

    • eduardo odraude says

      Sep 16, 2017 at 8:50 pm

      It’s harder for the radical left to equate Buddhists and Muslims than to equate Christians and Muslims, though in reality the latter comparison is just as ridiculous as the former.

      Don’t Zen Buddhists have a saying, “if you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him” ? The Muslim clerics tell very different stories about Muhammad, about all the people he killed on the road.

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 16, 2017 at 9:53 pm

        Eduardo, that Buddhist saying is *not* a call for violence–it is a reference to the Buddha being sought within oneself, and not without.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 16, 2017 at 9:54 pm

      Thanks, Dennis.

    • Malon says

      Sep 17, 2017 at 6:08 pm

      There indeed is foreign agitation. It’s all about to slander the Myanmar government, with the aim to get control over the country.

      Myanmar “has become a very strategic piece of land in China’s new Silk Road … any country that’s important to China becomes an object of exceptional interest to the elites in Washington D.C.”

      MSM “completely missing – or deliberately avoiding – the potential roles of oil/gas pipelines, geopolitical US-China tug of war, and Saudi Arabia’s subversive influence in that region.”

      “Western media is NOT going to shed crocodile tears for some people in a far away place such as Myanmar, unless there is some HIDDEN AGENDA related to billions of dollars and the DEEP STATE.”
      https://www.lightonconspiracies.com/rohingya-genocide/

  2. 762x51FMJ says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 3:02 pm

    Buddhism is the antithesis of Islam in that the Buddhist Monk protests by pouring the gas on himself whereas the Islamic mullahs and Imams demand their adherents pour the gas on everyone else.

  3. Jeay Sindh says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 3:44 pm

    The world sleeps when Muslims brutalize non-Muslims. UN is not concerned about the genocide of Yazidis perpetrated by Muslim terrorists in Iraq, or mass killing of Christians by Muslims in Egypt and Iraq. Hindus and Christians are being slaughtered by Muslims in Pakistan and Bangladesh but the United Nations Human Right and Organisation of Islamic Countries are silent. But all of a sudden they wake up when non-Muslims retaliate and fight back against Islamic terror. Myanmar Buddhists are defending themselves from Muslims terrorists.

  4. Pet Charles says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 3:50 pm

    This is an excellent piece of journalism. No Western media would carry that story on their AP wire.

  5. Jaladhi says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 6:04 pm

    Pakistan is a failed state and that too a terrorist one! Their only aim for existence is to terrorize the world and spread Islam!

    • Joe says

      Sep 17, 2017 at 4:25 am

      And yet, the USA gives them military aid.

      • TL says

        Sep 18, 2017 at 10:22 am

        The USA was born bad. Early evidence of the badness is the equality clause of the Declaration of Independence, but it’s “self-evident” that some people have no right to rule due to low intelligence, aversion to learning, vulgar character, unstable temperament, and so on. (It btw that the war for independence, which had its roots in civil war begun a few years before 1776, was financed with funny money.)

        Within just a few years, the Articles of Confederation were declared to concentrate the power of the new, rising secular badness of humanists, merchants, land speculators, and other busy bodies. Just a few yrs after that, power was concentrated a great deal more with a populist rag which begins with the deceitful phrase “We the People” and includes, in Article VII, clever sophistry about the rag being a source of law concerning “Establishment” of the rag as the “supreme Law of the Land”.

        As ever, however, Reality is that which doesn’t consider the preferences of humanists, egalitarians, and populist republicans.

  6. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 6:33 pm

    To the Myanmar Army:
    Do not let any foreign agencies into the region. Pay no attention to all the duplicitous words from the so-called international community.
    Finish clearing the region of all Mohammadins (including those of Chinese descent), secure the border and watch the border. If anything gets through the mine fields, blow it to kingdom-come.

    • Nancy Albert says

      Sep 17, 2017 at 7:27 pm

      GOOD ADVICE!

      I was in Libya in 1974. Turks tried to seize the Greek half of the island they shared, Cyprus. The BBC and International Herald Tribune, our only news sources, supported the muslims. Just goes to show you the romance of left, media & islam goes way back.

  7. John Hawk says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 9:41 pm

    I don’t know what these Islamophobic Buddhists are getting in such a twist about. After all, the Buddha and Mohammad were pretty much the same.

    Except Mohammad was a mass murderer, a hater, a pedophile, a thief, and a rapist, and the Buddha was not. There is that, I guess.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 16, 2017 at 9:48 pm

      Grimly hilarious, John.

  8. gravenimage says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 9:50 pm

    Islamic Republic of Pakistan fueling unrest against Buddhists in Myanmar
    ……………………….

    All too few realize that this in Myanmar is just another Jihad against the Infidels.

  9. Kepha says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 10:53 pm

    Yes, Islam’s unabashed theological justifications for military and para-military aggression coupled with an overcrowded Bangladesh leaching illegal migrants into Myanmar’s Rakhine state leave Myanmar with a point that has not been appreciated by the UN, MSM, and a lot of others. Further, figuring out how much of the Bengali-speaking Muslim Rohingya people are long-settled, bonafide inhabitants of northern Rakhine and how many illegal squatters from Bangladesh is not going to be easy. Also, there definitely has been Muslim predation against the Buddhist population living in both the Chittagong area of B’desh and the Rakhine area of Myanmar.

    At the same time, I write as someone who holds no candle for Burmese militarized Buddhist Socialism. It has been nasty to Christian minority peoples in Myanmar ever since independence, and even under U Nu, who has been treated as a secular saint by way too many.

    Further, if we have problems with illegal immigration, consider a Myanmar with 51.5 millions facing the potential of being the “safety valve” for an overcrowded Bangladesh of 153 millions!

    A final note: I read a Gospel Coalition report that the Christian apologist Nabeel Qureshi is dead at the age of 34, having succumbed to stomach cancer. RIP.

  10. Baucent says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 11:19 pm

    It’s clear from the 25 August attack on Police posts that the Rohingyas are receiving military training from somewhere. It’s textbook insurgent stuff. Attack isolated Police posts primarily to a gain arms and ammunition. Next they will murder the Burmese government officials and teachers in Rakhine State.
    Undoubtedly Pakistan’s intelligence agency has a hand in this through it’s sponsored Jihadist groups, but I also suspect significant support is coming from Bangladesh. Though the Government of Bangladesh tries to deny it, Jihadist groups are growing in influence there and are probably working in the Rohingya refugee camps on the border.
    Whatever the origin of the conflict was, it is now clear Rohingyas believe they are as much victims as the “Palestinians” and that victim mentality will fuel recruitment to the Jihadist cause.

  11. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Sep 17, 2017 at 1:55 am

    Chrystia Freeland says, “this looks a lot like ethnic cleansing.” (She would know; her grandfather was a high ranking Nazi in the Ukraine.)

    http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canada-to-speak-up-for-rohingya-at-un-freeland-1.3592855

  12. Mahendra Singh says

    Sep 17, 2017 at 2:21 am

    The Rohingias are now a threat to India. The Muslim sympathetic Congress party admitted 14000 Rohingiyas into various locations in India in 2012. In a mere 4 years now their population has swollen to 40,000. Particularly of concern is one of their camps is in Jammu, where they have already built 10 madressas. The security agencies of India give a strong warning of their involvement in terrorist activities including collusion with Al-Queda, and ISIS. so the government, prudently, has decided to deport the illegals. You should see the fury of the communists, Islamic organizations and the opposition parties only.

    Rohingiyas are proud of the traces of Arab blood in them. In the 16th century Arab soldiers and preachers used to make brief halt in Burmese coast on way to Indonesia and the Malay peninsula, where they used to cohabit with native women, who were abandoned when the men left. Thus most of them are the bastard children of Arab travelers.

    • Sarah says

      Sep 17, 2017 at 4:22 am

      “Rohingiyas are proud of the traces of Arab blood in them. ”

      Its interesting that you say this. I’ve read on multiple sites and heard from many different Indians about how the Pakistanis love nothing more than to sit down and proudly recite their bloodlines, looking for who has the most Arab blood in them.

      Given how the Arabs are the ‘most excellent’ Muslims, according to ole Moe. Who was, ironically – and I’m sure, completely co-incidentally, (lol), an Arab himself.

      The inferiority complex that these Muslims across that region must live with for their entire lives, as a result of this, is truly, pathetic.

      I would be very curious to confirm whether or not the African Muslims do a similar thing. I don’t really have any Africans in my social circle, let alone community, in order to ask first hand.

  13. Anti-jihad says

    Sep 17, 2017 at 3:07 am

    Good for the Buddhists in Myanmar for standing up to and fighting this evil that is Islam!

  14. Sarah says

    Sep 17, 2017 at 3:26 am

    http://www.news.com.au/world/asia/violence-in-myanmar-shows-the-world-needs-to-stop-romanticising-buddhism/news-story/37bf65e55ec59eb1922f82942576161a

    This new article from news.com.au is incredibly deceptive. If I’d read that and nothing else on this situation (which will be many Aussie’s, no doubt), I’d be thinking that the poor Rohingya just want a safe space to live in and be happy.

    But it all boils down to the same old chestnut. Whenever Islam is involved – you only need to just barely scratch the surface and soon enough, the full picture will unfold in front of you.

    I’ll condemn the Burmese and the Buddhists etc – the day I see the Rohingya step up to the plate and admit to their years of horrific atrocities against those who they invaded and swarmed and treated utterly sadistically.

    So far, all I see are Rohingya bitching about not being given more food – and like every Muslim on the planet, ever – playing the eternal victim.

  15. brane pilot says

    Sep 17, 2017 at 4:06 am

    The Rohingya, like all Muslims, have a very high birthrate. Higher than that of their hosts.
    Myanmar is a crowded, fully populated Buddhist country.
    The only way the Rohingya can expand their Islamic no-go zone is by terrorizing their Buddhist neighbors and forcing them to abandon their communities.
    Unfortunately for the Rohingya, the Buddhists of Myanmar know what happened to the Buddhists of Iran, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Indonesia.
    The Buddhists of Myanmar are not Europeans. They intend to remain Buddhists, practicing their religion and culture in their ancestral ethnic homeland, forever.
    And they are doing exactly what will be done to them if they do not act.
    So call them names.
    The UN is protesting that Islam is not expanding in Myanmar.
    The same way Islam expanded in Iran, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Indonesia…
    Outbreed, displace, overwhelm, exterminate. Allah Akbar.
    It is always a big issue with the UN when that does not go according to plan.

  16. Valkyrie Ziege says

    Sep 17, 2017 at 9:18 am

    ; When people, specifically Muhammadans, are being retaliated against by Buddhist monks, it’s because Buddhist monks have reached the end of their patience with Muhammadans, and it’s time for Muhammadans to get humble, shut-up, and leave.

  17. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Sep 17, 2017 at 7:07 pm

    Once again only proves that all the leftist/globalist-owned presstitutes in the enemedia are on the side of the jihadis and so are also all traitors to rationality, civilization and humanity itself.

  18. Wakeup says

    Sep 18, 2017 at 7:37 am

    Time they all left as one of their monks said, “you may be full of peace and love but you cannot sleep next to a mad dog”

    They don’t have any right to be there by any consensual relationship with the Burmese population they are illegal immigrants they should not be there, they should be gently but firmly ejected.

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