Posted on 07/26/2012 9:58:48 PM PDT by tsowellfan
After decades of isolation under military rule, Myanmar is opening to foreign investment and forms of democracy for the first time in a generation. The reform process, however, is now being attended by unanticipated consequences and influences, both internally and from abroad, that could undermine the country's new trend towards openness.
Recent sectarian fighting between Muslims and Buddhists in Myanmar's western Rakhine State has caught the attention of militant Islamists in South and Southeast Asia. Since May, the amount of jihadi propaganda directed towards Myanmar, a country previously unknown in the world of jihadi antagonists, has surged...
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And so the 21st century continues its slide into tyranny.
well, the Muslim minority has been treated terribly by the locals and the government, even though many have lived there for hundreds of years.
I’m not really sure who I’d root for in the fight...
'Muslim Brothers plotting overthrow of Gulf states'
"Dubai police chief warns of "international plot" against Gulf states, says Iran, Syria and MB must know Gulf is a red line.
It appears that those (myself included) who keep warning about the 1,400-year effort of Islamists at Global Hegemony and the dangers this vile, eeeeevil, cult, posing as a "religion" poses (most notably right here in the good ol' U.S. of A.) are ignored by most and dismissed as "fear mongers" or Islamaphobes in spite of the mountain of evidence we are exposed to daily.
I only hope and pray that enough wake up before its too late.
Root for the side that is not communist and not muslim.
LLS
Maybe we should root for the Buddhist Monks who oppose the government.
I remember when Marcos was in charge of the Philippines, and the "liberation theology" catholics were spreading propaganda that only the communists could boot him out. As a result, Reagan backed Marcos...until Cory Aquino and a million Pinoys singing hymns showed the world that there was a third alternative, and Reagan told Marcos it was time to go.
Maybe we should root for the Buddhist Monks who oppose the government.
I remember when Marcos was in charge of the Philippines, and the "liberation theology" catholics were spreading propaganda that only the communists could boot him out. As a result, Reagan backed Marcos...until Cory Aquino and a million Pinoys singing hymns showed the world that there was a third alternative, and Reagan told Marcos it was time to go.
I remember that well.
LLS
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