So, where is Ummah now?

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There people are dying floating around on rickety boats & no Muslim country is willing to help them. BD has banned NGOs from helping them in refugee camps & Malaysia and Indonesia has turned them away to die in sea…now their only hope is Philippines.

Philippines says prepared to help sea-stranded Rohingya people - World - DAWN.COM

MANILA: The Philippines said Tuesday it was ready to help Rohingya and Bangladeshi boatpeople, as its Southeast Asian neighbours faced outrage for turning them away.

The Philippines is obliged to help the migrants, many of whom are fleeing persecution, because it is party to the 1951 United Nations convention on refugees, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima and foreign department spokesman Charles Jose both said.

“We have the commitment and the obligation to extend humanitarian assistance to these asylum seekers,” Jose told ANC television, without giving details.

De Lima stressed that “saving lives” was paramount.

“I think humanitarian consideration should transcend any other consideration. First thing is the humanitarian concern, saving lives,” de Lima said after meeting with the country representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Nearly 3,000 migrants have swum to shore or been rescued off Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand over the past week, with thousands more believed to be drifting on boats without food or water.

Explore: Myanmar’s abandoned Rohingya — Asia’s pariah people.

The three governments have sparked international outrage for driving away some of the migrant boats, who are believed to have been deserted by human trafficking rings after a Thai crackdown.

“It is not a crisis that can be solved by a single state. It’s a collective responsibility,” Bernard Kerblat, the country representative of the UNHCR, told AFP after meeting with de Lima.

President Benigno Aquino’s spokesman also said the Philippines was open to helping the refugees.

“As the only predominantly Catholic nation in Southeast Asia, it is our duty to provide succour to those in need,” presidential spokesman Herminio Coloma told AFP.

The Rohingya are a Muslim minority group in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar, where they have no legal rights, making them a target for human traffickers. Up to 1.3 million live in the western Rakhine state.

Malaysia and Thailand have called on Myanmar to stem the flow of the Rohingya but Myanmar has refused to take responsibility, claiming the group is composed of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.

Kerblat said the Philippines and Myanmar have been invited to attend a conference on the crisis to be hosted by Thailand on May 29, but both countries had yet to confirm their attendance.

Bangladesh, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Vietnam, Australia and the United States are among 15 other governments that are attending the meeting, he said, describing it as a “step in the right direction”.

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Pakistan is not entirely innocent of this. The persecution of the Rohingya began in the 1950s in the parts of Burma neighbouring Pakistan, but Pakistan was so focused on the plight of the Kashmiris that it turned a blind eye to how Burma was treating the Rohingya

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The ummah is currently not fully awake. Whenever it has been, the people have prospered, lives were protected, and minorities felt the safest within muslim lands. That past will return again.

Thank you Philippines for doing the right thing, and taking care of the helpless.

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^ Adding to the above Ummah is sleep walking and letting the world events pass by and not caring that one day they too may be made refugees seeking safety and shelter and the ‘so-called leaders’ are humiliating it with inaction or evil actions!

Tariq ibn Shihab reported: Umar ibn Al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him, left on a journey to Syria and with him was Abu Ubaida (ra). They came upon a creek, so Umar dismounted from his camel, took off his sandals and placed them over his shoulder, and then led the camel over the creek. Abu Ubaida said, “O commander of the faithful, are you doing this? You have taken off your sandals and placed them on your back and you led the camel through the creek yourself. I do not think it will be easy for me to get the people of this country to honour you.” Umar said, “If only someone else had said this, O Abu Ubaida! I have made this a deterrent for the nation of Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him. Verily, we were a disgraceful people and Allah honoured us with Islam, so if we seek honour from other than Islam, then Allah will humiliate us.” Al-Mustadrak ‘ala as-Saheehain 214

“We were the most humiliated people on earth and God gave us honour through Islam. If we ever seek honour through anything else, God will humiliate us again.” ― Umar ibn Al-Khattab ( may Allah be pleased with him)

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Sorry to say but Ummah is not going to be united, some miracle of Allah(swt) is an exception. Even majority of scholars from different schools of thought are not in favor of it. Each school wants recognition/influence.

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And where is united nations now?

And where is the san su chi, the Nobel Laureate?

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**Childrenwere not protected from oppression and rape.**Children were not protected from sexual abuseand rape in Rakhine.
The British Media Guardian reportedWednesday, According to doctors of the International Humanitarian AssistanceOrganization.
In this report, half of the Rohingya victimsin Bangladesh are under 18 or below in the country due to sexual assaults andrape in Myanmar. Among them, there are Rohingya children under 10 years of age.In the sexual and reproductive unit of Kutupalong Health Center at Doctors WithOut Border Bangladesh, several Rohingya girls are given medical and emotionalsupport. Since the operation of the Myanmar army in Rakhine State, Rohingyahave been repeatedly complaining of rape and sexual assault. But this time thenumber of children who have become victims of sexual abuse has been linked.

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Rohingya Muslims at Pakistan-What about them.About 300,000 Rohingya Muslims living in squalor in Pakistan’s largest city, during past two weeks is reviving painful memories of the violence that drove many of them here half a century ago.They have got word of relatives being killed in Myanmar’s Rakhine state or are not being able to contact family members.But at this moment more than 5 million Rohingya Muslims fled away to Bangladesh.

The community of Karachi’s Rohingya The community of Karachi’s Rohingya comprises migrants from an earlier era of displacement dating back to the 1960s and ‘70s. In spite of decades in a foreign land,
they have stayed in touch with family back home, through mobile phones and social media.

But Nearly 300,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh and 30,000 non-Muslim civilians have been displaced inside Myanmar after the military launched a counter-offensive
Following attacks by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) insurgents on 30 police posts and an army base on Aug. 25.

Most of the people living in the slum called Arakanabad were born in Pakistan or fled violence in their homeland decades ago. It’s named for Arakan, which was what Rakhine used to be called.