The 57-member Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has launched a major international campaign to put an end to the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslim minority in the Arakan state of Myanmar and protect their legitimate rights, writes P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR of Arab News on July 20.

OIC offices in Geneva, New York, and Brussels are making intense efforts to foster international intervention in the issue. The OIC is in touch with the United Nations, UN Human Rights Counci...

Islam, mainly of the Sunni sect, is practised by 4 per cent of the population of Burma, according to the government census. However, according to the US State Department’s 2006 International religious freedom report, official statistics underestimates the non-Buddhist population which could be as high as 30 per cent. Muslim leaders estimate that as much as 20 per cent of the population may be Muslims. Muslims are spread across the country in small communities.

The last Mughal Em...

Denouncing the ethnic cleansing of Muslims in Burma, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind has called upon the government of Myanmar to end the brutal killing of Muslims and treat them on moral and humanitarian grounds. In a press statement, Maulana Jalaluddin Umari, Ameer, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, expressed grief over the long term repression and oppression faced by the Muslims in Burma at the hands of the government and the military junta. Till now 20,000 Muslims have been killed and their houses and mosques a...

“Rohingya Muslims massacre has no comparison in the recent history but the silence of world community is shocking,” expressed Mr. Shafi Madani, All India Secretary of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind while speaking in a protest organised at the Myanmar Embassy in New Delhi.

The protest was jointly organised by Welfare Party of India, Janata Dal United, Lok Jan Shakti Party, Samajwadi Party, CPI, Indian National League and Students Islamic Organisation of India (SIO), APCR.   Mr. ...

The Muslim Council (MCB) has called for urgent action to halt killings, rapes and expulsions being carried out in western Burma against ethnic Rohingya (Muslim) Burmese citizens.

In a statement on July 26, MCB said: “We strongly condemn these attacks against the Rohingya in Burma and call on the British government, as well as other regional partners, to bring the matter to the United Nations’ urgent attention,” said MCB secretary general, Farooq Murad.

As sta...