What happened to democracy in South East Asia?
Southeast Asian fall? Aug 02,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Gwynne Dyer A quarter-century before the Arab Spring of 2011, there was a democratic spring in South-East Asia: The Philippines in […]
Rohingya and the Burmese generals
Nov 17,2015 – RAMZI BAROUD – JORDAN TIMES Writing in the New York Times in the article titled “Myanmar generals set the state for their own exit”, Thomas Fuller expressed his and the media’s failure to recognise the total fraud that is Burmese democracy. “The official results are still […]
Aung San Suu Kyi’s Comments on Muslims Expose Endemic Anti-Muslim Prejudice
by Tun Khin President of the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK HUFFINGTON POST Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s interview with the BBC during her visit to the UK, has shocked many of her admirers. Despite being repeatedly pressed to do so, she repeatedly avoided giving a clear unequivocal condemnation of the […]
Naypyidaw must fight religious violence, says UN
It is always the same pattern. A few days ahead of time, there are rumors about which mosques will be hit. Then, on the evening it happens, there is a power cut and the telephone lines go dead. Shortly after midnight, or in the early hours of the morning, is […]
Myanmar needs a new nationalism
Source:Asia Times. By Matthew J Walton Many outside observers have been shocked to see Buddhists in Myanmar leading recent violent actions against Muslims. Our recollections of tens of thousands of Buddhist monks chanting loving-kindness while demonstrating peacefully against the former military government in 2007 clash with recent images of monks […]
OIC chief to visit Myanmar soon to address Rohingya concerns
JEDDAH: NADIM AL-HAMID ARABNEWS Wednesday 19 December 2012 Organization of Islamic Cooperation Secretary-General Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said yesterday that he would soon visit Myanmar as the head of a high-level delegation including OIC foreign ministers as part of efforts to stop the attacks against Rohingya Muslims. Addressing a press conference, […]
King invites Iran president for summit in Makkah
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Sunday 5 August 2012 Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah yesterday sent an invitation to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to attend the emergency Islamic summit […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Myanmar celebrates Prophet’s day
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Myanmar celebrated Prophet’s day on 11th March 2012. Six hundred guests attended the function, out of which around 300 were guests and 300 members of the […]