Page 91 - Beautiful Rohingyas

Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya) 89

he Rohingya Muslims have lived in a region including
Rakhine in Myanmar for hundreds of years, and his-
tory shows these lands belong to them. Yet these
innocent people are being maltreated in their own
lands, exiled and persecuted using the most barbaric
methods. This is genocide, one that the world is ignor-
ing. But it is impossible not to see this crime against humanity being
committed with ever more horrifying means, because access to infor-
mation is today a simple matter, and the Internet is a university all by

itself. It is therefore not at all difficult to obtain information about the
history of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and the persecution
they are facing in those lands.

Islam first came to Rakhine [formerly Arakan], part of the Far East
and inside the borders of Burma through Muslim trav-
elers to the region in the 8th century. When Bengal
adopted Islam in 1203, Arakan came under Muslim
rule. Between 1430, when the region was con-
quered by Muslims, and 1638, with a
few exceptions, the rulers generally

chose to live by Islam. The Muslims
settled in Arakan are therefore the
descendants of Sulayman Shah,
who was placed on the throne by
the Bengali Sultan Jalaluddin
Muhammed Shah. 1