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Obama says ‘Rohingya,’ displeasing Myanmar hosts (name of Burmese Muslims)
Associated Press ^
| Nov 14, 2014 9:05 AM EST
| Todd Pitman and Julie Pace
Posted on 11/14/2014 8:37:11 AM PST by Olog-hai
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He just could not resist, could he.
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posted on
11/14/2014 8:37:11 AM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Good for the Burmese for not bowing down to the moslems!
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posted on
11/14/2014 8:42:38 AM PST
by
MeganC
(It took Democrats four hours to deport Elian Gonzalez)
To: Olog-hai
Maybe they misunderstood him because he was chewing gum at the time.
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posted on
11/14/2014 8:43:54 AM PST
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
( When dems win, it's a mandate. When we win, we must compromise.)
To: Olog-hai
Some of the most persecuted people on earth. Right next to Christians in the middle east and africa. Any mention of them?
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
11/14/2014 8:49:27 AM PST
by
Iron Munro
(DHS has the same headcount as the US Marine Corps with twice the budget)
To: Olog-hai
"He just could not resist, could he."
I guess the call of his co-religionists was just too great.
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posted on
11/14/2014 8:49:35 AM PST
by
Truth29
To: Olog-hai
Myanmars minority Rohingya Muslims are among the most persecuted people on earth... I don't suppose the authors have any evidence available to back up this claim...
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posted on
11/14/2014 8:51:47 AM PST
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
To: Olog-hai
The Burmese muslims are getting thumped because they started it. Now they have been given a deadline to hit the road. Memo to western countries.
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posted on
11/14/2014 8:54:52 AM PST
by
lurk
To: Olog-hai
Myanmars minority Rohingya Muslims are among the most persecuted people on earthI have no idea the answer to this, but how many have been beheaded in the last year?
To: WayneS
Can’t you just hear the guffaws of American conservative Christians?
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posted on
11/14/2014 8:56:49 AM PST
by
edpc
(Wilby 2016)
To: Olog-hai
Christians are also a persecuted minority in Burma...but he failed to mention them (unless I somehow missed it).
But then Obama is not a Christian, so why should he care.
To: Olog-hai
Discrimination against the Rohingya or any other religious minority does not express the kind of country that Burma over the long term wants to be, Obama said, in response to a reporters question about the status of reforms in Myanmar...
How nice of The Won to speak for other nations.
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posted on
11/14/2014 9:00:50 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: tnlibertarian
How many bombs are thrown into Burmese mosques during worship?
How many Burmese moslem girls have been kidnapped and gang-raped?
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posted on
11/14/2014 9:51:39 AM PST
by
henkster
(Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
To: Olog-hai
The Burmese have reached the conclusion that Muslims do not share in their values, at all, and in past the Muslims sought to betray Burma to the Japanese. Likewise they want to tear off the part of Myanmar they live in and make it another home to Taliban types.
So the Burmese are now inviting the 1 million or so Muslims to leave. Unless they can show they have lived in Burma for 60 years or more, they are going to be deported.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/07/world/asia/rohingya-myanmar-rakhine-state-thailand-malaysia.html?_r=3
So Myanmar is going the way of Angola, to outlaw Islam and kick out Muslims as being harmful to their society.
This makes you wonder what countries will be next to do this.
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posted on
11/14/2014 10:00:34 AM PST
by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
The AP article did mention that Myanmar’s government says that the Rohingya are mostly illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
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posted on
11/14/2014 10:04:31 AM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
“Rohingya Muslims are among the most persecuted people on earth”
Perhaps they are seen in Burma for what they are, post WWII invaders of a Buddhist country.
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posted on
11/14/2014 10:53:46 AM PST
by
JimSEA
To: armydawg505
Exactly right! Not a peep about them.
To: Olog-hai
The vast majority of people in Bangladesh are ethnically Bengali, but these Muslims are ethnically Rohingya. Historically, the Burmese kick them into Bangladesh, and the Bengali kick them right back, give or take a century.
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posted on
11/14/2014 10:57:18 AM PST
by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
To: Olog-hai
Perfect example of why obaba gets no rspect:
Instead of bringing up the issue man/man w/ the Burmese leader he makes a quip on his way out the door.
what a putz.
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posted on
11/14/2014 12:26:43 PM PST
by
Pietro
To: Olog-hai; fieldmarshaldj; Clintonfatigued; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA; sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker; ...
Never heard of them. Seems they are a cause celeb on twitter or some shite. Apparently the Junta doesn’t like to call them by the name they claim for themselves, which appears to be recently invented.
The word Obama should have said is BURMA, the real name of the country.
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posted on
11/14/2014 2:10:32 PM PST
by
Impy
(They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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