Press TV September 9, 2017 Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak says Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar face systematic atrocities, including torture, rape and murder, which have recently forced several hundred thousands of members of the persecuted minority to seek refuge across the border in neighboring Bangladesh. The Malaysian premier made the remarks while speaking with journalists
September 7, 2017: Hundreds gathered in Kabul to protest the recent killing and persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Burma, the country also known as Myanmar. (RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan) Copyright (c) 2017. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave NW, Ste 400, Washington DC 20036. Related Some 164,000
Press TV September 4, 2017 A Nobel laureate and several Muslim nations have strongly denounced and staged protests against Myanmar’s government over persecution of Muslim Rohingya minority in the western state of Rakhine. Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate, said in a statement posted on social networking website Twitter that her “heart
Press TV September 1, 2017 An activist believes Eid al-Adha (the Feast of the Sacrifice) is a greatopportunity for Muslims around the globe to unite and stop the ongoing “havoc” in the Islamic world. “It is a great opportunity for all Muslims to open to each other, to listen to their problems and solve [them]
The Huffington Post: Over 200 displaced individuals spent the night in ISGH’s [Islamic Society of Greater Houston] makeshift shelters on Tuesday, said Mohammad Amin Moola, the group’s vice president. The number was rapidly rising on Wednesday, he added. “We will definitely be opening more,” Moola said. “We are not turning anyone away. Whatever we have, we are
Press TV / August 11, 2017 India is planning to deport tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims it says are living in the country illegally. A government spokesman said on Friday that New Delhi was in talks with Bangladesh and Myanmar about its plan to deport around 40,000 Rohingya Muslims. “These things are being discussed
Daily Beast: Saturday’s bombing of a Minnesota mosque was just one violent incident in a long string of them. When will they get the attention they deserve? If a Christian church in America were bombed in what the state’s governor labeled an “act of terrorism” and countless other churches were intentionally burned to the ground over the past
The Huffington Post: Minnesota’s governor on Sunday called the early morning bombing of a mosque in Bloomington an “act of terrorism.” “What a terrible, dastardly, cowardly act was committed,” Gov. Mark Dayton (D) said during a visit to the Dar al-Farooq Islamic Center. “It is a criminal act of terrorism.” The FBI is leading the investigation into the
The Huffington Post: I scrutinized many details about my assigned religion of Catholicism. First, I never could bring myself to believe that Jesus was God. Yes, I love Jesus, and I wholeheartedly believe that we should proactively seek to obtain the extraordinary human qualities that he possessed, but in my eyes, there is only one God,
Press TV July 26, 2017 American Muslims say they have experienced deep suspicion about their faith since Donald Trump took office in January, a survey shows. Almost three-quarters of US Muslims see Trump as unfriendly toward them, shows a Pew Research Center report released Wednesday. The Pew survey, which is its third on American Muslims