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on this day this holy day of Eid Eid

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al-adha day of sacrifice much Muslim

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blood is being shed in Burma as

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elsewhere the difference in Burma is

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that the Muslims are not being modeled

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by other Muslims they're being modeled

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by Buddhists now many of you most of you

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will have imagined that Buddhists were

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very peaceable people who like to chant

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and meditate well maybe they do in many

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parts of the world but that's not what

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they're doing in Burma or Myanmar as it

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is now called I prefer Burma myself

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because the Burmese fascism chauvinism

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xenophobia which is fueling this

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massacre now of thousands thousands of

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Rohingya people that is the Muslim

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people in Burma who once had a kingdom

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of their own and then became a province

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of Burma who are Burmese people whose

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ancestors go back for centuries in Burma

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are being systematically ethnically and

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religiously cleansed and some of the

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pictures and the videos that I have seen

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today have been truly shocking

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it's truly shocking when you see

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innocent people being modeled for me

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it's even more shocking when nobody

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gives a toss about it now it doesn't

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surprise me that the mainstream media in

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Britain and in other Western countries

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couldn't even tell you where Burma was

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who the Rohingya people were wouldn't be

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able to even begin to explain what's

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happening there in Burma but there are

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two important distinctions here the

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first is that Burma's chief politician

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is the former darling of the guardian

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and liberals everywhere on sang-soo Chi

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a Nobel Peace Prize winner no less and

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she is the lipstick on the pig or

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Burmese fascism she's the person going

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on television to justify the massacre of

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men women and children defenseless men

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women and children in her own country

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that's one distinction the second

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distinction is this despite the fact

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that there are two billion Muslims in

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the world despite the fact that the

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richest countries in the world are

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Muslim countries despite the fact that

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Muslim countries have millions upon

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millions of men under arms have air

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forces navies have armies armies that

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you couldn't even begin to count and

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which are at war against other Muslims

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in Yemen and other places not a single

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Muslim government has been able to raise

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a finger in defense of the Burmese

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Muslim community shame on them and not a

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single jihadist has made their way from

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a curry house in Amsterdam or Brussels

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or South Wales not a single holy warrior

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that has otherwise been plotting to kill

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innocent people in Manchester or on

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London bridges not a single one of these

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so-called jihadists has been ready to go

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to Burma to defend the Muslims being

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massacred there right now no they prefer

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the murder of innocent people in

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Brussels and in Barcelona and in other

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parts of Europe including our own I'm

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disgusted by all of them and I hope

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today as Muslims celebrate this II this

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holy festival they just pause for a

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moment and ask themselves this question

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how has it come to be that with all that

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wealth with all those armies the Muslims

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are so pathetically in adequately

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incompetently led

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that the muslims in burma just have to

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lie down by the side of the road and the

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life's blood pour into the gutter just

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ask yourselves that as you celebrate Eid

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this morning this evening now