The Outsiders: Burmese Muslims

The Outsiders

By Harry Priestley/Rangoon
January 17, 2006

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In a country where discrimination against minority groups is a fact of life, Muslims are bottom of the heap.
There is a saying that if you lose control of your bicycle in Burma’s western Arakan State, you shouldn’t worry as it will stop when it hits a kala.
Kala is Burmese [...]

BURMESE INDIANS: THE FORGOTTEN LIVES

 BURMESE INDIANS:
THE FORGOTTEN LIVES
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Easy Targets: The Persecution of Muslims in Burma

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Easy Targets
Easy Targets: The Persecution of Muslims in Burma
Karen Human Rights Group
May 2002

Report Cover Photo:  Muslim villagers from Dooplaya District of Karen State who fled to Thailand after being systematically forced from their villages by SLORC troops in 1997.  [KHRG]
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THE SITUATION OF MUSLIMS IN BURMA

THE SITUATION OF MUSLIMS IN BURMA
Jul 25th, 2007 by burmadigest
Taken from Burma Digest, A Campaign Journal for Human Rights of All Ethnic Nationalities in Burma

History
The dawn of Muslim settlements and propagation of Islam has been widely documented by Arab, Persian, European and Chinese travelers of the ninth century AD.
The current population of Burmese Muslims are [...]

Myanmar’s Muslim sideshow

Myanmar’s Muslim sideshow
(Note: This was an old article before latest real Monks protests. The monks reported in this article are Military Intelligent Agents, disguised as monks)

By Cem Ozturk
Southeast Asia
As the world continues to glare at Myanmar’s ruling junta for its ongoing oppression of the country’s popular democracy movement, it is hardly by coincidence that tensions [...]

The Role of Muslims in Burma’s Democracy Movement

The Role of Muslims in
Burma’s Democracy Movement

From Irrawady
By Shah Paung
November 12, 2007
Although the September protests in Rangoon were led by Buddhist monks, Burmese Muslims were among the first to offer water to the monks as a means of showing support for the peaceful demonstrations.
“I saw some Muslims kneel down and pay respect to the [...]

Ch 3: 12 Equality Before Law, Ch 3:13 Rulers Not Above the Law

Ch 3: 12 Equality Before Law,
Ch 3:13 Rulers Not Above the Law 
 Ch 3: 12 Equality Before Law
Islam gives its citizens the right to absolute and complete equality in the eyes of the law. As far as the Muslims are concerned, there are clear instructions in the Holy Quran and hadith that in their rights [...]

Ch 3:11. The Right to Basic Necessities of Life

Ch 3:11. The Right to Basic Necessities of Life  
Islam has recognised the right of the needy people that help and assistance will be provided for them.
“And in their wealth there is acknowledged right for the needy and the destitute” (51:19).
In this verse,

the Quran has not only conferred a right on every man [...]

Ch 3:8 Conscience, Conviction, 9 Religious Sentiments, 10 Imprisonment

Ch 3:8 Conscience, Conviction,
9 Religious Sentiments, 10 Imprisonment  
Ch 3:8. Freedom of Conscience, Conviction  
Islam also gives the right to freedom of conscience and conviction to its citizens in an Islamic State.
The Holy Quran has laid down the injunction:
“There should be no coercion in the matter of faith” (2:256).

No force will be applied [...]

Ch 3:5 Tyranny, 6 Freedom of Expression & 7 Association

Ch 3:5 Tyranny,
6 Freedom of Expression &
7 Association

Ch 3:5. The Right to Protest against Tyranny 
Amongst the rights that Islam has conferred on human beings is the right to protest against government’s tyranny.

Referring to it the Quran says:
“God does not love evil talk in public unless it is by someone who [...]

Ch 3:4 The Security of Personal Freedom

Ch 3:4 The Security of
Personal Freedom  
Islam has also laid down the principle that no citizen can be imprisoned unless his guilt has been proved in an open court.

To arrest a man_

only on the basis of suspicion

and to throw him into a prison

without proper court proceedings

and without providing him [...]

Ch 3:2 Honour, 3:3 Private Life Sanctity & Security

Ch 3:2 Honour,
3:3 Private Life Sanctity & Security  
Ch 3:2. The Protection of Honour 
The second important right is the right of the citizens to the protection of their honour.
In the address delivered on the occasion of the Farewell Hajj,
the Prophet did not only prohibit the life _

and property of the Muslims to one another, [...]

Chapter 3: Rights of citizens in an Islamic State

Chapter 3:
Rights of citizens in an Islamic State
Ch 3:1. The Security of Life and Property 
In the address which the Prophet delivered on the occasion of the Farewell Hajj, he said:
“Your lives and properties are forbidden to one another till you meet your Lord on the Day of Resurrection.”
God Almighty has laid down [...]