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Posts Tagged ‘Burmese Muslim Association’ (8 found)
Strong and Unequivocal Condemnation of Malicious Threats and Extremist Activities
1. The international terrorist group ISIS has made threats targeting the Prime Minister of Malaysia and other high government officials. It is especially worrisome and of great concern, that the State Counsellor of Burma Daw Aung Suu Kyi is also named as one of the targets […]
• • •Ignore Attempts to Incite Riots – Appeal to Burmese Muslims
1. Under successive military governments and until the time of U Thein Sein government, many historical old Mosques and Christian churches were desecrated by using various means […]
• • •Anti-Muslim Activities in Burma
This report prepared based on the information received from a Burma based monitoring network. The report mainly focused on the activities of anti Muslim Buddhist extremist groups and anti Muslim political parties such as Race and Faith Defence League (RFDL), Myanmar National Network (MNN), Peace and Diversity Party (PDP) and other incidents that effect minority Muslims in Burma.
Race and Faith Defence League is also known as Ma Ba Tha in Burmese acronym. Among these organisations and parties, RFDL is the largest organisation, which has a nation wide network, hierarchically structured, functioned by the monks, and supported by government. This is the organisation that proposed four discriminative laws – marriage law, birth control law, religious conversion law and polygamy law that President Thein Sein and the Parliament approving without hesitation. So far, the organisation has about 30000 members across Burma and a very strong network in grassroots level. Its members are available at every town, village, and streets […]
BMA Vehemently Condemn the Statement of Al Qaeda Leader
Burmese Muslim Association vehemently condemns the statement of the Al-Qaeda leader who threatened Burma in his latest video. BMA also condemn the terrorist group called, ISIS–Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, whose inhumane actions are totally contrary to Islamic beliefs and teachings. The marginalised minority Muslims in Burma will never accept any help from a terrorist organisation, which is in principle a disgrace and morally repugnant […]
• • •Statement on Anti Muslims Violence in Mandalay
Burmese Muslims Association strongly condemns anti-Muslim violence that has erupted in recent days in Mandalay, the second largest city in Burma. The violence that has occurred is not simply a result of sectarian conflicts. It is without doubt a well-planned operation, carried out by a group of well-trained thugs–which has tacit impunity and free license from the Thein Sein’s government–not only to cause a great deal of physical harm and injury against Muslims, a helpless minority group in Burma, but also to instil immense psychological terror and mental anguish, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan […]
• • •Burmese Muslim Association Statement on Violence Against Aid Agencies in Arakan State and the Census
Burmese Muslim Association (BMA) is deeply concerned by the recent attacks on international aid agencies in Sittwe, Arakan State, on 26th and 27th March 2014. BMA condemns these attacks in the strongest possible terms […]
• • •BMA Press Release on Latest Anti-Muslim Violence in Burma
President U Thein Sein promised on his recent visit to the UK and France that there would be no tolerance for religious extremism and sectarian violence in Burma. Unfortunately, a number of serious incidents have taken place in recent days which raise questions about the government’s ability to prevent and take action against sectarian violence […]
• • •ရွစ္ေလးလံုး အေရးေတာ္ပံု ၂၃ႏွစ္ေျမာက္ ေၾကညာခ်က္
ရွစ္ေလးလံုး အေရးေတာ္ပံုၾကီး ၂၃ႏွစ္ျပည့္ျပီ။ မိုင္းရာျပည့္ အေရးအခင္းက ၃၅ႏွစ္ ေက်ာ္ခဲ့ျပီ။ ဆဲဗင္းဂ်ဴလိုင္ ေသြးေခ်ာင္းစီးခဲ့ျခင္းက ၄၉ႏွစ္ေက်ာ္ျပီ။ ျပည္တြင္းစစ္မီး ဝါးျမိဳေတာက္ေလာင္ေနျခင္းက ၆၃ႏ်စ မကျပီ။ တိုင္းရင္းသားေပါင္းစံု ျပည္သူလူထုၾကီးက ဆက္လက္တိုက္ပြဲဝင္ေနဆဲ […]
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