Just an interesting bit of information I noticed yesterday in looking at our stats—-lots of people are looking at a 2009 post about the State Department having identified Burmese Rohingya people as being connected to Islamic terrorist groups. For some reason that three-year-old post is getting a lot of attention. Unfortunately, the State Department has removed the link for the terrorist group list.
There is another post in 2009 here that also mentions the Rohingya connection to Islamic extremists.
As I’ve mentioned before, we’ve written over 100 posts on the Rohingya, categorized here. My primary interest over the years was whether we would bring Rohingya refugees to the US, but now that we are and no one is paying attention it doesn’t matter much (until something goes wrong!).
By the way, several of those testifying at the May 1 State Department meeting were pushing Rohingya resettlement, including Anastasia Brown, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops representative.
An afterthought: I have New Hampshire on my mind (next post) and I wonder if NH got its contingent of Rohingya this past year?