on this day this holy day of Eid Eid
al-adha day of sacrifice much Muslim
blood is being shed in Burma as
elsewhere the difference in Burma is
that the Muslims are not being modeled
by other Muslims they're being modeled
by Buddhists now many of you most of you
will have imagined that Buddhists were
very peaceable people who like to chant
and meditate well maybe they do in many
parts of the world but that's not what
they're doing in Burma or Myanmar as it
is now called I prefer Burma myself
because the Burmese fascism chauvinism
xenophobia which is fueling this
massacre now of thousands thousands of
Rohingya people that is the Muslim
people in Burma who once had a kingdom
of their own and then became a province
of Burma who are Burmese people whose
ancestors go back for centuries in Burma
are being systematically ethnically and
religiously cleansed and some of the
pictures and the videos that I have seen
today have been truly shocking
it's truly shocking when you see
innocent people being modeled for me
it's even more shocking when nobody
gives a toss about it now it doesn't
surprise me that the mainstream media in
Britain and in other Western countries
couldn't even tell you where Burma was
who the Rohingya people were wouldn't be
able to even begin to explain what's
happening there in Burma but there are
two important distinctions here the
first is that Burma's chief politician
is the former darling of the guardian
and liberals everywhere on sang-soo Chi
a Nobel Peace Prize winner no less and
she is the lipstick on the pig or
Burmese fascism she's the person going
on television to justify the massacre of
men women and children defenseless men
women and children in her own country
that's one distinction the second
distinction is this despite the fact
that there are two billion Muslims in
the world despite the fact that the
richest countries in the world are
Muslim countries despite the fact that
Muslim countries have millions upon
millions of men under arms have air
forces navies have armies armies that
you couldn't even begin to count and
which are at war against other Muslims
in Yemen and other places not a single
Muslim government has been able to raise
a finger in defense of the Burmese
Muslim community shame on them and not a
single jihadist has made their way from
a curry house in Amsterdam or Brussels
or South Wales not a single holy warrior
that has otherwise been plotting to kill
innocent people in Manchester or on
London bridges not a single one of these
so-called jihadists has been ready to go
to Burma to defend the Muslims being
massacred there right now no they prefer
the murder of innocent people in
Brussels and in Barcelona and in other
parts of Europe including our own I'm
disgusted by all of them and I hope
today as Muslims celebrate this II this
holy festival they just pause for a
moment and ask themselves this question
how has it come to be that with all that
wealth with all those armies the Muslims
are so pathetically in adequately
incompetently led
that the muslims in burma just have to
lie down by the side of the road and the
life's blood pour into the gutter just
ask yourselves that as you celebrate Eid
this morning this evening now