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in Hong KongHong Kong Muslim community including leaders and Imams generously helping the Rohingya refugees with nearly HK$2 million raised so far
More than half a million Rohingya people have fled to the southwest of Bangladesh in the last two months fleeing the violence and persecution from the Burmese soldiers and lynch mobs. Women bring with them stories of gang rapes, their children being burned in front of their eyes and other horrible barbarity. The Rohingya Muslims […] More
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in Heartwarming
For Rohingya refugees, alongside Muslim charities, Sikh charity workers providing food aid at Myanmar-Bangladesh border
Muslims have naturally been helping the Rohingya. Here we have a heartwarming story of a team of volunteers from a Sikh organisation Khalsa Aid that reached Bangladesh-Myanmar border Sunday night to provide relief to the tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslim families fleeing Myanmar. Speaking to The Indian Express over phone, Amarpreet Singh, managing director, […] More
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in Islamophobia
“As a Buddhist, I condemn the Burmese government alongside the extremists and I stand with the Rohingya,” exclaim a number of Buddhists
Don’t judge a whole community by the actions of a few. We hear this time and time again in relation to different communities worldwide. The Muslim community is the biggest victim of this. Currently, it’s the Buddhist community who is facing the fire as the government, military and local mobs of the Buddhist majority country […] More
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In solidarity with the Rohingya, 16 Hong Kong Muslim organisations and public sent a powerful letter of condemnation to the Myanmar Consulate in Hong Kong
Rohingya. It’s been the talk for the global community over the last week. The devastation and utterly inhumane treatment of the most persecuted miniority in the world continued as hundreds of innocents have been killed and more than 150,000 have fled their homes in Burma fearing for their lives by the Burmese government, military and […] More
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In 1913, during WW1, Rohingya Muslims sent aid to Turks’ Ottoman army, showing the long solidarity between the two communities
The solidarity between Rohingya Muslims and the Turks dates back to the First World War, when the former provided material and emotional support to the Ottoman Government, a document released by Deputy Prime Minister Fikri Işık showed Friday as reported by Daily Sabah. According to records obtained from the Ottoman archives, Rohingya people sent 1,391 […] More
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Turkey’s first lady visiting Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh as the country sending 10,000 tons of aid supplies
Turkey’s first lady is visiting Bangladesh to meet Rohingya Muslims who fled persecution in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. Deputy Prime Minister Hakan Cavusoglu said in a live interview with Turkish broadcaster ATV on Wednesday and reported by Anadolou Agency: “Mrs. Emine Erdogan is in Bangladesh where she is meeting with our Muslim brothers who fled oppression in […] More
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500 Hindus fled Burma after 85 were killed for not joining the Burmese army in the killing of Rohingya Muslims
Dhaka: Hindus from Myanmar have joined streams of Muslim Rohingyas to seek refuge in Bangladesh after the killing of 86 people from their community in the ethnic violence in the neighbouring Buddhist-majority country. Officials said nearly 500 Hindus arrived in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar, bordering Myanmar, along with tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims amid escalated […] More
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Turkey to Bangladesh: Open your doors to Rohingya Muslims, we’ll cover all expenses
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has called on Bangladesh to open its doors to Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state. Speaking at a Justice and Development Party (AK Party) Eid al-Adha celebration event in the Mediterranean province of Antalya on Friday, Çavuşoğlu reiterated Turkey’s call to Bangladesh to open its doors to […] More
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Rohingya Muslims – The Orphans of Asia
Over the last few years, the heart-tormenting news regarding Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar (Burma) by boat and on foot reminds us the world’s most forgotten people’s wretched life. Background The Rohingya people live in Burma, and they are indigenous to the state of Rakhine, bordering Bangladesh on the Bay of Bengal, while others claim that they […] More
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in Asia
The Journey of the Rohingya ‘Boat People’
The ‘Boat people’ – thousands of Rohingyan Muslims drifting on rickety boats for 7 days or more, braving a journey for months to reach a land of hope, to escape persecution, to a better life in Malaysia. With them, Bangladeshi nationals escaping extreme poverty in the hope of a better life. For both groups, this […] More
