If you don’t know about the Rohingya, you better learn quickly! You can start your education with my over 200 posts here at RRW.
We have admitted almost 20,000 Rohingya to the US in the last ten years and as their numbers increase they become (like all Islamic ethnic groups) political activists.
This article from the Phoenix New Times features a 25-year-old Rohingya Muslim refugee living in Phoenix who wants to get his mother and 10 siblings here (but for that mean old Donald Trump).
A few things you need to know before reading this story, which the Leftwing media will never tell you.
~The Buddhist government contends that the ‘Rohingya’ are not some special group, but are illegal aliens from Bangladesh (a Muslim country) who decades ago illegally arrived in Burma. The Buddhist leaders of Burma want the country to remain Buddhist and don’t want to be demographically conquered by Muslims.
~Aung San Suu Kyi, the famous Burmese freedom fighter, has not rallied to the Rohingya’s cause which infuriates the Left.
~The Organization of Islamic Cooperation is trying to get its foot in the door in Burma to defend their people and agitate against the government.
~The round of violence that began in 2012 (often cited by the mainstream media) was ignited when a gang of Muslim men raped and murdered a Burmese Buddhist girl (something the media never tells you now), and the Buddhists retaliated.
~As we learned here yesterday, the newest wave of violence was from a Burmese military response to attacks by a Rohingya armed group.
Now to the political agitators at Arizona State.
Here is what I want to know, if they are “ethnic cleansing” in Burma (aka Myanmar), why is that our problem?
Why is that a reason to spend billions of US taxpayer dollars bringing people like Islam here, apparently not to add much to American society, but to political organize for Muslims back home?
BTW, Trump will be supplying more Rohingya activists for mosques and Islamic centers when the first Australian rejects get here (see my earlier post).
From the Phoenix New Times, a new cause, not the Syrian Muslim victims (that was oh so last year), but Rohingya:
Here in Phoenix, Rohingya refugees are wondering why no one seems to be paying attention.
Among those trying to spread awareness about the crisis is Sheraz Islam, whose own father died less than a month ago while trying to flee the country for Bangladesh. His family lost their home, their land, and everything they own, he says. And convincing Americans to care, when they may or may not even be able to point to Myanmar on a map, is a challenge.
“Most people, they don’t know who the Rohingya are,” he says. “When we talk to people, we explain that we are an ethnic minority, and the government [of Myanmar] denied us our citizenship.
“We’d like to live in our own country, but unfortunately we had to leave because we are Rohingya.”
Islam is one of roughly 600 Rohingya refugees currently living in the Valley. They make up less than a quarter of the total number of Burmese refugees who have been resettled in Arizona since 2001. Most are Muslims, and arrived after 2012, when attacks on the Rohingya intensified after decades of discrimination.
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After landing in a refugee camp in Sri Lanka, he applied for asylum through the United Nations. The U.S. State Department approved his application, and, a little less than six years ago, he arrived in Arizona. Lutheran Social Services helped get him set up with a job and apartment, and taught him how to turn the lights on and off — he’d never had electricity before.
“We don’t have these kind of things back in our country,” he explains. “They came and they guided us how to use the oven, how to use the microwave, how to use the bathroom.”
Here we go! Rally organized by Islamic Community Centers, what a surprise!
On Sunday night, he and other Rohingya refugees held a vigil on the Old Main Lawn at Arizona State University.
Organized by the Islamic Community Center of Tempe and Islamic Center of the Northeast Valley, it drew a diverse crowd of student activists, local faith leaders, and refugees from around the world. They held up signs calling on Aung San Suu Kyi — the country’s de facto leader, and, ironically, a former winner of the Nobel Peace Prize — to put an end to the violence against the Rohingya.
Lots more here if you feel like reading it.
Again, my Rohingya Reports category is here, posts extend back ten years.
