Rohingya Refugee Crisis: The Role of Islamist Terrorists

Gatestone Institute:

• Although no one is recommending the horrors of murder or mass-expulsions, little attention has been paid to Rohingya ties to international Islamic terrorism.
• The Muslim world's condemnation of Myanmar should give the West pause before it joins in the widespread criticism of Myanmar. Al-Qaeda's call "upon all Mujahidin in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and the Philippines to set out for Burma to help their Muslim brothers" is accompanied with a threat that the Myanmar government "shall be made to taste what our Muslim brothers have tasted."
• In addition to fighting atrocities against innocent people, it is critical to protect the Free World, which, until the Rohingya crisis, Myanmar had made great progress toward joining.

Although the media has extensively covered the Burmese Army's expulsion of Muslim Rohingya people from Rakhine Province in Myanmar -- and although no one is recommending the horrors of murder or mass expulsions -- little attention has been paid to Rohingya ties to international Islamic terrorism.



Aided by foreign terrorist networks in Pakistan and support from Rohingya exiles in Arab Gulf States, Myanmar's Islamists and their foreign backers ultimately may want to establish a sharia state in Rakhine.



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