July 16, 2012

Indonesian Muslims vow jihad for Rohingyas

After the genocide in Myanmar which killed thousands of Rohingya Muslims and left many homeless, the Indonesian Muslim have called for Jihad.

Hundreds of Muslims protested in Indonesian capital Jakarta on Friday outside the Myanmar embassy and demanded to stop the genocide of Rohingya Muslims.

The communal violence between Buddhist Rakhine and local Muslims, including the Rohingya, swept Myanmar’s Rakhine state in June, leaving dozens dead and tens of thousands homeless.

According to an AFP report the protesters around 300 Muslims from organisations, including the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) and Jemaah Anshorut Tauhid (JAT), threatened to storm the Myanmar embassy in Jakarta as some 50 police officers guarded the building.

Shouting “Allahu Akbar” the protestor says that “If embassy officials refuse to talk with us, I demand all of you break into the building and turn it upside down.”

The Protesters carried banners that read “FPI is ready to wage jihad” and said “Every drop of blood that is shed from a Muslim must be paid back. Nothing is free in this world,” the man shouted,
Myanmar President Thein Sein told the UN on Thursday it was “impossible to accept the illegally entered Rohingyas, who are not our ethnicity,” saying they should be sent to refugee camps or be deported.

According to United Nations, decades of discrimination have left the Rohingya stateless, with Myanmar implementing restrictions on their movement and withholding land rights, education and public services.

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