Just a reminder - it was his wise understanding of the refugee
situation that helped launch Mr. Trump's campaign. If you know people
who don't get it, send them articles about what is really going on in
the world - like this one:
European ship headed to Asia to help rescue Rohingya (why you should care)
by Ann Corcoran
If you are saying to yourself, ho hum, this doesn't affect me, think again!
Rohingya Muslims by the tens of thousands are piling up in countries
like Malaysia and Indonesia (both safe Muslim countries!) and we end up
bringing thousands to America.
Rohingya at sea
It
isn't just Syrians we should worry about. Rescued Rohingya are being
resettled in the US by the thousands. They can't possibly be screened
any better than Syrians!
You don't hear much about it
because the Rohingya are slipped into your towns and cities right along
with the Burmese Christians and other ethnic minorities and all are
labelled simply Burmese. Last fall we learned that 13,000 Burmese
Muslims were already in the US.
This is the rescue ship story
which is really a ho hum story, but I'm mentioning it since we haven't
talked much about Rohingya lately, although we have an entire category,
here (185 previous posts), devoted to the subject.
From the International Business Times:
A rescue ship credited with saving thousands of migrants stranded in
the Mediterranean Sea is to embark on a new mission in south-east Asia.
The MY Phoenix, owned by charity Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS),
has been used to rescue almost 13,000 people making the perilous journey
from north Africa and the Middle East to Europe.
But now its
crew is sailing the 40-foot vessel to the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea,
where it will spend four weeks helping rescue Rohingya refugees. Last
year tens of thousands of migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh attempted
dangerous sea crossings to reach Malaysia and Indonesia.
By all means, save them at sea, but resettle them in Muslim countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia!
About the photo: It is here in a story from May 2015. The story
tells us about the latest round of violence between the Rohingya and the
Buddhist Burmese and leaves you with this line (below) that gives the
impression that all the deaths and displacement were on the Rohingya
side of the ledger. It just isn't true!
We followed the conflict
as it boiled up in 2012 and it started when Rohingya men raped and
murdered a Buddhist girl! But, in the retelling, the pro-Muslim
propagandists never tell you that! Buddhists were among the dead and
homeless!
Clashes in 2012 between the state’s Buddhist community
and Rohingya Muslims, a long-oppressed linguistic and ethnic minority in
this majority Buddhist country, left hundreds dead and more than
140,000 people homeless.
Visit our 'Rohingya Reports' category.
In 2013 the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (testimony here) asked the
US State Department to bring in more Rohingya (it is only 'fair,' they
imply, since we have resettled so many Christians!). Doesn't it make
enormous sense to bring in the centuries-old warring factions? Not!
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