Terrorists Attack In London: Fury and Protest

One week after the attack in London and a 25-year-old soldier Lee Rigby had been killed, the anti-Muslim protest is still marching on. With the backlash of anti-Muslim in London, there have been over 2,000 people joined into this protest. The protest is headed by EDL, English Defense League. However, Imam of Brighton said there is nothing to worry about, the British people are still uniting together. There has been a while since last terrorists attack in London, but it does not mean the conflicts between British religions had been long gone. And this attack and death just re-spark the anti-Muslim war for London citizens. Although majority in London still believe there will not be further conflicts going on, the situation London Muslims have to face currently is still not positive. I think London government and the leader of London Muslim community have to work through this together, otherwise the misunderstanding between London Muslims and average citizens will cause more conflicts and chaos. 

President Obama: Stop Violence Against Muslims in Myanmar

President Barack Obama urged the president Thein Sein of Myanmar on last Monday to halt violence against a Muslim minority and called for an end to the killings of Rohingya Muslims in western Myanmar's Rakhine state. As I wrote on last week’s post, the conflicts between Myanmar Buddhists and Muslims have drew attention from all over the world. The violence by Buddhism has caused at least 192 Muslims been killed and over 140,000 are still homeless. Obama said praise economic and political reform is the primary goal Myanmar should focus. Although president Obama show his concerning on Muslims, the comments under the news make people upset. Many people criticize Obama on this because it seems he is standing on the side of Muslims but not Christians. This is sad that many people judge Muslim refugees as terrorists. As I said all the time, most Muslims are no different from us, they want peaceful life but the fact is they are currently homeless. How can people be so cruel and want to wipe out all the Muslims just because their religion? This will only make them become no different from terrorists, too. Give Muslims who in misfortune some caring, all you need is love.

Buddhism and Islam: Why We Hate Each Other?

As I blogged on April 30^th, Myanmar, a Buddhism country, which its religion requires its followers to not kill and love peace. However, the Buddhist monks extremely hatred Muslims and there had been several bloody shambles happened. So why monks hate Muslims so much? Well, the primary reason is hard to say, but many people think monks think Muslims are guilty because they slain animals when they celebrate their festivals. Also, Buddhist monks think the large sizes of Muslim families are dangerous and they are potential risks of society. However, as I considered, because Islam is a niche religion in Myanmar and the followers there are few, so Buddhists cannot take the risk that Muslims may effects Buddhism’s dominating position. So in one word, whatever how the rules says, Myanmar Muslims are just another victim in benefit conflicts.  

Katherine Russell: Dangerous Muslim or an Average Girl

Katherine Russell, wife of Boston Marathon bomber suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev now is still under Fed's scrutiny and watching. From the Boston bombing until now, different news medias have different voices about Katherine. Most people think she is just a innocent average girl who just brainwashed by her husband and any over judgement is unfair. “She was a great girl, and a good student, and normal,” a person who is familiar with the Russell family says. Any story written about her childhood would be boring, the person assures a reporter. “She was normal.” However, because Katherine converted into Islam, some news medias think she also took part in the bombing. Anyway, we still can not judge a widow participated the terrorist attack or not depend on her religion, like my previous posts said, most Muslims are average people just like us.

Muslim victims of Myanmar: Conflicts and Homeless People

Myanmar is a predominantly Buddhist country, but about 5 percent of its 60 million people are Muslim. They face a growing campaign of anti-Islamic sentiment led by radical Buddhist monks. In Myanmar's central heartlands, justice and security is elusive for thousands of Muslims whose homes were destroyed by Buddhist mob during conflict in March. During the violence, 43 people were killed and most of them are Muslims. In additional, Buddhist monks make nearly 13,000 Muslims had to leave their home and move to prison-like camps. "It's for their own security," said a police officer at a camp inside a sports stadium on Meikhtila's outskirts. However, the live situation there is not well. The Muslims in Myanmar currently are still isolated from the majority.
So as a Buddhism dominated country, I think this kind of tragedy is happening because the government has bias on Muslims. Because the government members in Myanmar are mostly Buddhists, so they may have hatred to Muslims even themselves. So I think if even the government of a country abandoned its niche religion believers, for those homeless people, there is no other way to survive but leave the country and ask for foreign help.

Muslims helped foil alleged Canada-America train bomb plot: They also stand on the side of justice

According to NBC News, April 23, 2013, a bomb plot which target on a rail road cross America and Canada had been successfully stopped thanks to the tip from Muslim community in Canada. The Canada police said that the bomb plot planner Chiheb Esseghaier, of Montreal, and Raed Jaser, of Toronto had been arrested. Muhammad Robert Heft, a Muslim community leader in the Scarborough area of Canada's biggest city, told the Toronto Sun newspaper that "There is going to be backlash,” because of the bomb plot and people will concerning Muslim threat again. "But I want to reiterate. Who was the one who tipped the RCMP off? It was our community." He said. Muslims are not play the role of criminals and terrorists, many of them also stand on the side of justice.

Boston Marathon Bombings: Don't Always Blame On Mulims

On April 15th, 2003, there were a bombing attack during Boston Marathon, two died and hundred injured. After the attack, the most questions people asking are"who is responsible for this?". American Muslim organizations are condemning the Boston Marathon bombings and urging Americans of all faiths to join them in praying for the victims and their families right after the attack. And CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper says it's unfortunate that Muslims are often instantly considered suspects in such attacks. However, Erik Rush, Conservative Columnist, made some bad Muslim joke after Boston Marathon explosions, and caused many people commented to against him.A Libyan called Hend Amry wrote, "Please don’t be a ‘Muslim.’" on her twitter, explained how sad nowadays many Americans think Muslims are always responsible for all bad things. Muslims are not criminals, they are average people like us.

Egypt Muslim Brotherhood: Be Hatred

For the Muslim Brotherhood, the long awaited dream come true is turning into a nightmare. Having survived 80 years of persecution to achieve power democratically, they suddenly find themselves the focus of widespread popular hatred. Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, however, is not about to give up and make way for new presidential elections. The Brotherhood will spare no effort to stay in power. The civil war in Egypt seems caused deep effects in economy and political crisis, and Muslim Brotherhood is hatred by anti-Morsi protesters. The picture above is the riot in Egypt. The Islam in Egypt seems to be treated as the threat of democracy this time.

Time Square protesters: all you need is LOVE

On Dec 17, 2012 in Time Square, New York, a pastor called Terry Jones made an anti-Islamic speech. The speech described how evil the Islam religion is, and it’s a time-bomb inside the America. However, not everyone in Time Square agreed what Terry Jones said. There are some voices of different opinions. People knew not all Muslims are terrorists, and those protesters stood out and countered this speech by singing the Beatles. They told Terry Jones a message,"all you need is love". Although people in New York had being though 9/11, Time Square bomb and many threats by Muslim terrorists, but most of they still believe Muslim is an important part of America, and that is how different nation be together, become the United States of America.

Innocence of Muslims: Unfair Description

"Innocence of Muslims" is the title attributed to an anti-Islamic movie trailer. The movie is reported to have been written and produced by Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, using the pseudonym of "Sam Bacile".The 14 minutes trailer uploaded on July 2012 on YouTube begins with describing the increasing persecution of Copts and poor human rights in present day Egypt, including growing religious intolerance, sectarian violence and church-burnings. The content is very anti-Muslim and the facts the movie described mostly are nonsense. So the movie caused many Muslims protests in many nations, through Islamic countries in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa as well as the United Kingdom, France, Netherlands and Australia. Also the violent mobs provided a backdrop and a cover for the terrorist attack that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three of his staff at the U.S. mission to Libya on the 11th anniversary of 9/11. It is just so sad that a director’s unfair opinion caused such big chaos. 

Tragedy in Lahore：The conflicts between Christians and Muslims still happens

On March 10th 2013, over 3,000 Muslims protesters who against Christians live in Joseph Colony area in Lahore, Pakistan went on street. Later on the protest turned violent and the angry Muslims protesters burned out over 100 Christians' houses in the eastern city of the Lahore. The picture above is a Christian family stand in their burnt house. According the local police office’s report, 178 houses, 18 shops and 2 churches were damaged by fires and hundreds of people became homeless. Although in the last two weeks I was trying to explain sometimes Muslims are victims, the conflicts they caused are still serious problems. Many Muslims, especially the Muslims in middle-east area are easy to be in rage and then lock their attacking targets on innocent citizens. The conflicts among Islam and other religions still continues, and it seems no one can stop it.

Rohingya Muslims: In Danger and Homeless

For the week 2, I am going to focus on the Muslims in Myanmar. There are about 800 thousand Muslims in Myanmar, but the Myanmar government regard them as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. Muslims in Myanmar can not get citizenship and jobs. On Feb 1st 2013, because of the war ,130 Rohingya Muslims escaped from Myanmar by ship, but they got trapped on the sea for 25 days and 97 of them died of hunger. The picture above are the survivors in that ship. One survivor said that they paid 465 dollar per person to get on board. Although they know it is a dangerous tour, but they need jobs and a place to survive. The UN Refugee Agency also concerns the increasing death of Rohingya Muslims. They suggest Myanmar government should protect Rohingya Muslims' basic human rights in action. Just like what I said in week 1, although Muslims' religion may be different from the primary religion in many countries, they just seek a good and peaceful life like other average people, and most of them should not be treated like heresy.

Muslims: They are looking for a peaceful life like we do

 

              Although Osama Bin Laden has been killed in action for almost two years, the problems with Muslims and effects from 9/11 still exists. It has been more than 11 years since 9/11, but Americans still very sensitive with Islam and they are nervous about the situation in middle-east. Start this week, I will focus on the stories of American Muslims and news about America's activities in middle-east. Although many Americans worry with the number of American Muslims keep increasing, finally they will affect even overwhelm America's normal life and safety. People think this guess is reasonable because their impressions of Muslims mostly are criminals and terrorists, but this judgement is unfair. Although there are differences among cultures, but Muslims' wishes for a good life should be as same as us. So I hope I can prove this throughout this semester.