Justified fears & concerns or simply widespread and deep-seated Islamophobia among millions in Myanmar?
The earlier blog post from Rian Igos
Philippine Big Banks Accepted & Protect Billion$ of Dirty Money?
Imagine a country like the Philippines, with a thousand more sea-going vessels than Myanmar, falling into some anarchy, civil war or total breakdown in law & order: Hundreds of all types of boats sailing to all parts of the world, & so many getting stranded. Far-fetched, at least for now. We hope it remains so...
When attitudes and behavior are shaped by deep-seated beliefs (fears, intolerance, etc.) the problem requires "surgical procedures" to remedy, if "long-term therapy" can spell phyrric victory to remedy, that President Aquino & his peace advisers and negotiators labored to make possible.
The following from an article at The Guardian of London
(http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/19/why-is-aung-san-suu-kyi-silent-on-the-plight-of-the-rohingya-people):
“Muslims reproduce like rabbits; they want to kill us with swords; they want to conquer us – we have to defend ourselves and our religion,” he insists, explicitly identifying the Rohingya with Islamist terrorism around the world. " A senior monk says of the Muslim "hordes" encroaching on Burma.
While insisting that he is against violence, Ashin Wirathu and those like him have fuelled and exploited tensions between Buddhists and Muslims in Rakhine state, promoting the belief
that Islam is penetrating the country to install sharia law and leave Buddhists as a minority.
Sadly, the same fears are echoed by not a few in the Philippines too. However, there's no such allegedly organized persecution of Muslims in the country. The apartheid of inequality in the country is the far greater problem even in-between the Muslim people.
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