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Obama: Myanmar won’t succeed if Muslims are oppressed
Reuters ^ | Sun Apr 27, 2014 5:05am EDT | Matt Spetalnick

Posted on 05/03/2014 7:51:37 PM PDT by Olog-hai

U.S. President Barack Obama said on Sunday that the rights of Myanmar’s minority Muslim population were not being fully protected and warned that the Southeast Asian country would not succeed if Muslims there were oppressed.

On a visit to Malaysia, Obama praised political reforms under way in once-isolated Myanmar, but said the danger of democratization was that it could unleash religious and ethnic conflicts and that such developments could move Myanmar in a bad direction. …

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: burma; myanmar; obama; rop
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To: Olog-hai

Burmashave


21 posted on 05/03/2014 8:12:12 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 ("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")
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To: fieldmarshaldj
I miss a Conservative, pro-American, pro-Judeo/Christian President.

Ditto.

22 posted on 05/03/2014 8:12:40 PM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: Olog-hai

the Karen tribe in Myanmar was given only 80% of food rations this tribe is catholic?it was explained to me by a priest in Mandalay city.


23 posted on 05/03/2014 8:13:22 PM PDT by philly-d-kidder (AB-Sheen"The truth is the truth if nobody believes it,a lie is still a lie, everybody believes it")
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To: Olog-hai

This guy is a total menace - we need to get his skinny butt out of office as quick as possible.


24 posted on 05/03/2014 8:17:31 PM PDT by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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To: Olog-hai

meanwhile, Christians are getting Crucified by some of the Muslims he is backing (with our $$) in Syria...


25 posted on 05/03/2014 8:20:36 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..))
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To: Logical me
Miss Romney yet?

Nope...Romney's one of them...

26 posted on 05/03/2014 8:23:18 PM PDT by Iscool (Ya mess with me, you mess with the WHOLE trailer park...)
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To: Olog-hai

Only 4% of Myanmar’s population are Muslims. That is low enough so they should seriously consider following in the footsteps of Angola, and outlawing Islam altogether.


27 posted on 05/03/2014 8:23:49 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (WoT News: Rantburg.com)
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To: Iscool

Don’t you love those false choices ? We can either have the execrable Communist Mohammadan in the White House... OR we can have the execrable Socialist phony who gave the Communist Mohammadan a second term !


28 posted on 05/03/2014 8:41:16 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: philly-d-kidder

Always admired the Karen people and the way they stood up to the military junta in Burma. On a side note a few of their people were arrested here in South Australia the other day for hunting possums and koala seems that nobody told them about not hunting our furry little endangered wildlife - I am sure they will get off with a warning! Hopefully!

Mel


29 posted on 05/03/2014 8:44:22 PM PDT by melsec (Once a Jolly Swagman camped by a Billabong.)
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To: Olog-hai

BURMA can’t succeed unless the Muzzies ARE repressed.


30 posted on 05/03/2014 8:45:24 PM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: Olog-hai

Is this idiotic ‘experiment’ over yet??

Can we get ADULTS back in charge, please.

Oh, and make it adults who give a damn about Americans.


31 posted on 05/03/2014 8:47:53 PM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: Will88
ah heck, practically all Moslem majority nations. I can’t name them all.

That would be the 57 that Obama referred to in relation to his visiting US states.

32 posted on 05/03/2014 9:04:49 PM PDT by spokeshave (OMG.......Schadenfreude overload is not covered under Obamacare :-()
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To: Olog-hai

“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”

FUBO


33 posted on 05/03/2014 9:28:27 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: Olog-hai

I wish the dirtbag president had the same attitude about standing up for the Christians in Syria that are being killed by the terrorists that Obama and McCain are supporting.


34 posted on 05/03/2014 9:29:04 PM PDT by boycott
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To: Olog-hai

I’m yet to heat on fate of African Christians from Obama.


35 posted on 05/03/2014 9:48:28 PM PDT by wetphoenix
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To: Logical me

But he is a peaceful Muslim.


36 posted on 05/03/2014 10:16:30 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: BenLurkin

They’re like family to him!


37 posted on 05/03/2014 10:28:46 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: tumblindice

Look at the size of the snout on that Muslim and then tell me Neanderthal genes aren’t present.


38 posted on 05/03/2014 10:35:37 PM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est - because of what Islam is and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: Olog-hai

Oh, yeah! The muzzie head choppers need to be free to rape and kill Buddhist monks and Burmese peasants. How can they be happy if they can’t do that?


39 posted on 05/03/2014 11:35:41 PM PDT by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: Olog-hai

!


40 posted on 05/03/2014 11:48:57 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Bathhouse/"Rustler" Reid? :-)
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