THE SAGA OF A DREAMLAND
By Maung Tha Hla
The
illegal immigrant Bengali Muslims of the Rakhaing state (Arakan) in
Myanmar rose in rebellion for North Arakan Free Muslim state in 1948,
and the abortive outcome has compelled them to live with the sentimental
fantasy of the Muslim freehold ever since. The recent political reforms
that took place in Myanmar stirred hope among the Bengali separatists
who mused over the prospect of their fantasy, and obviously invoked the
self-idolized Muslim academics to cautiously tone down the inflammatory
rhetoric, who otherwise chronically fomented enmity with the government,
having notoriously bent on dwelling upon moral bankruptcy, engaging in
the hate speech and name-callings.
On
the other hand, behind the scenes, the glimmer of hope, however, evoked
an emotional debate that played out across the immigrant Bengali
community over the remonstrance against the Anti-Rohingya Union (ARU)
for the contentious principles, particularly "indivisible Arakan state",
which literally meant the abandonment of the dream of Islamic freehold. Following
a much heated discussion, a decision was reached by a near consensus to
uphold the delusive desideratum of dreamland, only to be entangled in a
violent quarrel over the question of representation on a Citizen
Advisory Committee being deputed to make a prepositional assessment with
regard to the Islamic secessionist movement. At the insistence of Dr.
Ali Butcher Islam, a professor emeritus, the matter was settled
resorting to a compromise and the committee was formed with a
representative each from the Bengali Refugee Organization of the United
Kingdom (BROUK), the Anti-Rohingya Netizens Organization (ARNO), the
Rohingya Sufi Organization (RSO) and the Bengali Refugee Association of
North America (BRANA). It goes without saying that Dr. Ali Butcher Islam
appointed himself Chair-man of the committee, who made public the white
paper:-
FLICKERING
HOPE: Hoping for an Islamic freehold is an unrealistic wish and
unattainable goal, which we did not achieve in the past seventy years.
It was an epic failure; perhaps the timely reminder of the end of the
centuries-long aspiration. Nevertheless, by a curious twist of events,
our jihadist separatist movement seemed to have limped back to a hopeful
future, after having gone through the greater part of our miserable
life. Given the much-heralded democratic reforms undertaken by the
infidels whom we called the beasts, the light of our fabulous freehold
is now presumably at the end of the tunnel, which we never hoped would
have happened. Yet we should
not let ourselves thrown into the wildest excitement by the optimism of
rickety future. Perhaps, the irony of fate might have played an unfair
trick upon us, the alien Bengali separatists. It
is not crystal clear that the evil of non-citizenship issue, which
ironically originated from the British colonial rule, would come to an
end. We never know when our dream will come true. It might not be in our
lifetime or never. Maybe there is just the tunnel, but no light; hence
we shall not at any time be legalized as bona fide citizens paving the
way for recognition of our fake ethnicity, which in turn without
question is the essential prerequisite to the Islamic dreamland. However, nothing must lead our efforts astray.
ELEMENT
OF PROXY: Our goal is to have us, the illegal immigrant Bengalis,
recognized as an ethnic group with the constitutional right to a free
Islamic freehold. In order to achieve our objective attempts were made
to bring the separatist movement into the vortex of international
politics having duped ourselves in the precedent of Kosovo. On that
account we made desperate efforts to boost political influence, through
the powerful Islamic lobbyists, using various sources at different
levels, such as the heretical apologists and publicists, the liberal
media, the accommodating NGOs, the regional and United Nations
organizations as well as the Western governmental and law making
institutions, one after another in the flight of fancy that the latter
was more influential than the former. Unfortunately, after all these
unproductive efforts we finally ended up with hypocritical and
controversial Muslim patrons, whom we thought most authoritative
believing in their ludicrous illuminism.
It
remains an open question whether our objective will ever be
materialized through the Western proxies; courting them has evidently
become a tall order in the light of their changing attitudes towards
Myanmar, who were intrigued to promote their own interests and clearly
circumspect to connive at advancing our illicit movement. Moreover,
there is a bone contention of the integrity of so-called influential
Muslim patrons, who prejudiced themselves having flunked their write-ups
by inciting a thinly veiled threat of Islamist revolt, in the example
of the Arab Spring (which started to germinate democratic changes but
evidently grew into Islamist power) no matter how small was the Muslim
population in question. Unfortunately, the inflammatory and unscholarly
statements only rendered racial tension. We have serious reservations
about the effectiveness of ostensibly righteous oration of
self-proclaimed moralist Muslims, which were riddled with factual errors
and hypocrisy given their own society was embedded in racial
discrimination and religious persecution, and the country wherefrom they
hailed was entrenched in turbulence. Their credibility was undoubtedly
blighted for the sanctimony, and their claim as defenders of human
rights was left in tatters.
LYING SPREE: On the other hand, we are exceptionally intellectual and competent lie-savvy. Look
no further than examples of our writings which convey repertories of
lies. The duplicity spiraled out of control; theories tossed around
multiple origins of ethnicity but one prominent exception of the Bengali
ancestry. In order to keep the true identity under wrap, all our
drumbeat stories never mentioned one thing about our influx during the
British days and thereafter, and also why the British Imperialist
Administration recorded us as alien Chittagonian Bengalis and
categorized in the religious rather than ethnic grouping. We played the
victim of racial discrimination and persecution of Islamic religion,
notwithstanding the inexorable criminal acts of perfidy having revolted
against the host country in the fulfillment of the Islamic inspiration.
We repeated slavish imitation of complaint portraying ourselves as
innocent and benevolent despite the fact that we agitated for Arakan,
the Moghe land, to become as part of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) as
the British left Burma. We never threw a line in the political rhetoric
about the illegal immigration and the separatist movement on being
afraid lest the fair-minded public should have the opportunity to see
the true picture of the issue; otherwise, all the outrageous accusations
and outlandish claims would have been execrated. We prided ourselves on
being versatile confederates who put in force an organized campaign to
spread manufactured accounts of our history and ethnicity and engaged in
the malicious slander about the Moghe/Rakhaings (Arakanese) who
disputed our stories. Frankly,
what we have been trying to achieve is at the expense of the Moghe, and
often than not imposing on them ploy of the wolf in sheep's clothing. We
blamed the Moghe for our failure. We accused them as racist
conspirators; unfortunately, we amply proved ourselves being no better
either. We claimed credit for what we disseminated anti-Moghe rhetoric
making them the scapegoat for the doomed Islamic freehold. At the same
time we played out absurd tricks in a bid to drive a wedge between the
Moghe and Burmese and more insensately negative stereotypes seeking to
rouse public resentment against Myanmar by vilifying the Buddhist
religion. In a sickening act of deceit we conflated Buddhism and the
adherents with genocide but never ever mentioned cowardly about the fact
that in the name of our own religion fellow Muslims committed crimes
against humanity. We earnestly adhered to the strategy to manipulate the
separatist issue in the pretext of holding a belief for democracy in
spite of the fact that our faith and democracy were irreconcilable. In
the first place, how could we transgress the cardinal tenet about the
inferiority of women? We never
believe in the equality of man with woman; and hereby solemnly vow that
the divine right of having four spouses will never ever be traded upon
with women. Empowerment of women is against the Sharia. It is a sin.
That
we are a superb factory of duplicitous inventions is the fact that we
fabricated countless versions about our history and ethnicity. Most
blatantly we belied the fateful term "Rohingya", which was initially
devised as the hybrid race of the Arabs; however, given the valid
objection to the term, we subsequently subverted and supplanted it with
an equally fabulous claim of various origins that included, the Yemenis,
the Afghans, the Persians, the Moors, the Turks, the Moguls, the
Chakmas and you name it, only to add fuel to the flames of rejection. In
a measure to prove ourselves entirely different from the Bengalis an
instant language was created but our tricky ingenuity could hardly forge
it being distinct from the Chittagonian dialect. And one other
invention, presumably not the last, was a costume as recently displayed
in Oslo, Norway, which was made up of such components as the dunce's
cap-like headdress with a strip dangling on the side, the grey-hued, the
medieval Manchu-styled jacket opening down the front, and a pair of
loose trousers, no matter how clumsy the man in that grab looked like
the scarecrow. As a matter of
fact, we broke the record of fake inventions, but our accomplishments
were not registered in the Guinness World Records book. Is it not
discrimination based on the race and religion, which definitely is a
criminal act calling for justice before the International Criminal Court
for the violation of human rights?
THE DELUSION: The
plain truth is that the chief obstacle to our efforts to establish the
Islamic freehold sprung from the xenophobic and undemocratic Moghe, who
resisted Islamic infiltration and did not want to share their land with
us. Allah willing, we will make all the Moghe extinct from the Northern
Arakan sooner or later; we have no illusion in putting into force the
mortal Islamic justice, history stands testament to it. Only to get rid
of the Moghe and their land will be our own. As
such, the first priority is to relocate the border security fence from
the bank of the Naaf River along with Bangladesh to the bank of the Mayu
River, which would not only prevent the Moghe of the Southern part from
entering the Islamic domain but also open the flood gate to our
brothers from the fatherland since the two territories are to be
amalgamated.
In
the meanwhile, we should desist from the inherent dissimulation that we
were the sister community of the Moghe in the excuse of having common
political interest against the Burmese. It is a lie. The two groups, the
natives and aliens, have never been on good terms. We loathe the Moghe;
our intent has been death and destruction to them. We are just
double-dealers, sentimentally interested only for our own but no one
else's. We are Muslims being
bound by Islamic faith and should not imitate the Buddhist Moghe or the
Burmese, whose habits are all evil. We should not resemble them in any
manner, or take their names, or adapt ourselves to their language, let
alone their dress and diet, but always hold enmity towards them and
their way of life. We should not let the two cultures mingle with each
other; no interfaith or intercultural dialogue. The multiculturalism has
been a disaster in the West; thanks to brother Muslim immigrants who
were seethed with rage against the cultures of adopted lands. We should
adopt and strengthen our monolithic culture. Arabization is the only
solution to the institutionalization of socio-anthropological mould in
order to help us identify with the Arabs so that we might be
subordinated to the Arab Monetary Fund; of course, not as a donor so to
speak.
We
have taken issue with the opponents about the belied term " Rohingya"
which was rejected nationwide, who refused to accept the term as the
identity of an ethnic minority; thus, our rage against the enemy should
by no means be limited to promote anti-Moghe bigotry, but we should also
intensify our efforts to wage the campaign of intimidation and
silencing of any ethnic nationality or political institution, chiefly
the government, which raised objection to our separatist movement. In
this context, we command the leadership of the National League for
Democracy: (1) Purge the old guards of the party who, on the strength of
personal knowledge of our ethnicity and background, confuted our phony
origin and history; (2) Disregard the misleading histories written by
the Moghe, which were mere trash and of no account, but abide by our
make-up histories, which were authentic and valid; (3)Remember whatever
fact the Moghe said was a lie, whatever lie we made was a fact; they
were always in the wrong and we were forever in the right, which is our
statement of truth, (4) Put on record that we are not foreigners, but
just have the fortune of being illegal Bengali immigrants; and (5) Give
official recognizance, in return for our self-seeking support
pretentiously in the name of democracy, to the belied term "Rohingya",
which was the latest guile imputed to dreaming up the Islamic freehold.
REALITY
FACTOR: The fever of hysteria broke out among our superb intelligentsia
over the fantasy genre, the feasibility of which by fair means or foul
is doubtlessly out of the question, yet we have been inherently
hypnotized by unrelenting notion of Islamic secessionism, the endemic
disease. The situation has been so dire that after three quarters of a
century we came to realize our limitations and the infeasibility of our
dream. The vexing question is about how our illegal separatist movement
might end; the outcome is not just unpredictable but unthinkable. After
all we, on our part, have done the stratagem to the best of our ability,
but in vain; it is now up to the Allah to fulfill our uncanny
aspiration. At the same time we failed to understand why Allah took so
long to bless us, the doggedly devout Muslims. Apparently he might have
underplayed the purpose and object of our separatist movement, the tenor
of which was in fact to implant an Islamic foothold and establish
progeny in the area we encroached upon as the first step towards
Islamization of the entire Buddhist land. Perhaps, Allah neglected us
because he was well aware of the futility of our unlawful movement. Nevertheless, our objective must never falter; our goal must be achieved with or without the Grace of Allah.
ROHINGYA AT THE CROSS-ROADS: RODENGYA OR ROACHENGYA
By Maung Tha Hla
"Rohingya",
the belied term, which was devised by the immigrant Bengali separatists
in order for them to claim as the hybrid race of Arabs was in peril of
obliteration. Rumours were afloat that a controversy over the substitute
name was resulted from a rift between the Bengali residents of the
inner and outer perimeter of the envisaged Islamic freehold. Eventually
an online discussion was afoot among the Bengali intelligentsia of the
jihadist separatist movement.
Salamalaikum Bengali Brothers,
Something
has terribly gone wrong with our Islamist separatist movement. The
bumpy ride of "Rohingya" has come to a dead end. Prime Minister Sheikh
Hasina of our former homeland, the backbone of the movement, has
forsaken us. She did not use
officially the contrived name "Rohingya" anymore, because she knows who
we are and where we belong. Moreover, the BBC Burmese Section, once
staunch supporter of our cause, in a complete reverse of its policy,
dropped the same name in favor of the term, Burmese Muslims. The
authorities in the neighboring countries, such as Thailand and Malaysia
referred to us as Burmese nationals.
Newt
Gingrich, former House Speaker and a contender for the Republican
Presidential candidate pronounced that the Palestinians, who made
attempts to create a separate State, were invented people. He said they
were in fact Arabs and historically part of Arab community. On
the contrary, we, who nicknamed ourselves" Rohingya", deceitfully
claimed to being the Arab descent. In reality, we are Bengalis and part
of the Chittagonian community. But,
reality asides, we are determined not to admit as being Bengalis lest
we should be treated as foreigners; hence deprived ourselves of a Muslim
freehold.
Now the question is what shall we call ourselves, that is, what the next name would be like? Keeping
in line with our social system of mass breeding, and given the mass
stealthy infiltration, the most logical name in my wise opinion is
definitely either the Rodengya (Rodents+gya) or
the Roachengyas (Roaches+gya), which is not only complementary to the
disgraced name "Rohingya" but also attunes to the preposterous claim we
made inconsistently about our proliferating numbers.
I
have no doubt in my mind that you all will receive with deep respect my
superb conception since I am a great professor, exclusively trained in
human rights affairs of my own people. None the less, I am reluctantly
humbled myself to listen to any stupid idea if one of you, among the
pig-headed lot, dares to tax my patience.
Br.Abu-LAIR, Ph.D.
Professor of Human Rights for Islamist Secessionists
Chairman, Anti-Rohingya Netizens Organization ( ARNO)
*****
Dr. Abu-LIAR Bai,
I
am greatly impressed by the invention of the nomenclatures of Rodengya
and Roachengya, which you formulated intelligently based on the concept
of biology and social customs. Your invention has prompted me to
rejuvenate the long smoldering conceptual analysis of the behavior and
practice of sexuality of our virile cultural traditions, which
apparently aimed at generating the multiplication of breeding. The
atrocious reality is that we have been brought up to lead a lustful
life, indulging the chauvinistic male species with the right to marry
four wives. However, given the
incoherent claims on our part about the accelerated growth of
population, the four-wife tenet is no more effectual to help tally the
irrational mathematics of demographic proliferation unless the pro rata of four wives is substituted with the prerogative privilege of having more than four wives, perhaps not excluding minors.
All
the same, there is one problem. To add more sex slaves to the harem,
exceeding the existing quota of four is bound to spark outcry from the
Western human rights maniacs who would demonize us as being immoral. And
the worst scenario could be that we all might end up before the
International Criminal Court (ICC) for abuse of women, being pedophiles
and crime against humanity, riposting us with our own motto. But
I have not the slightest doubt that the Western idiots can be pacified,
as it has always been, netting them with the Sharia Finance.
Then
and there my brainstorm animates the genetic engineering project
patterned after the doctrine of biogenesis, which is generation of
living organisms from other living organisms. In
my case, human organism is to be developed from organism of same
individual, which is hermaphrodite. For the benefit of Madrasa students I
must put it in the plain language that every one of us, both sexes,
will undergo trans-sexual surgical operation in order for him or her to
have both male and female productive organs in the same individual, like
the earthworm. The procedure
will not only accelerate the population growth but make all of us, women
inclusive, equal and no one would be more equal than others. It is the
only way to carry through our preponderant claim having cloned individually and incorporated into a community of our own ethnicity; no more monkeying others' so that we, the arrogant narcissists of Bengali
breed, are not held up to mockery. I most honestly believe that my
conception will greatly enhance our efforts to outnumber the indigenous
Moghe/Rakhaing (Arakanese) leading to the hypostatization of the Muslim
freehold.
Br. Halah Mohammed, Ph.D.
Professor of Bio-ethics, Rohingya Sufi Organization ( RSO)
*****
All Bengali Brothers,
I
am filled with dismay at your impetuous obstinacy clinging onto the
defiled term "Rohingya". While the intelligent few can grasp the wisdom
of my concept some brainless individuals expressed strong dissent of the
invented names Rodengya and Roachengya, which they regarded not being
the genus Homo but animalistic equalization. As all of you will realize
that my invention was based on the doctrine of mass breeding as per our
social system and given the wild spread infestation we already had
redounded. The mammal or
otherwise, keep in mind that we encroached upon a foreign land and grew
in numbers to ensconce slyly to a monolithic community having excluded
ourselves from the mainstream society. Therefore, there should not arise any dissention about my immutable conception. The
most I can compromise myself is with the selection of Rodengya over
Roachengya; and I propose that our future freehold is to be known as Emirate of Rodensia. Why is it Emirate? Let us not forget the Arab funding, the life line of our separatist movement. Unless
we put them in the best light we would be like the fish out of water. I
believe that there will be dissension and even acrimonious bickering in
some quarters about the use of Emirate.
Dr. Abu-LIAR, Eminent Professor.
Chairman of ARNO
*****
Br. Ali-LAIR and Br. Halah Mohammed,
I am obliged to bring to your kind attention that apart from all our fabricated stories and falsified claims, there was one more
silly contention that the term "Rohingya" originated from the Arabic
word "Raham" meaning sympathy, shown upon the Arab castaways by the Moghe king of old Arakan. In
my opinion it is none other than exaltation of the nobility of an
infidel to the utmost indignation of our pride and dignity. How
ridiculous is this story, but what is more loathsome is that the people
who are infatuated with the awe of Arab grandeur are taking it
seriously. Just think of the name Arakan, which we brazenly claimed the
Arabic. Based on the foregoing assumption, the Arab seamen in question
might have been so overwhelmed by the nobility of the Moghe king that
they considered him worthy of reverence as an Arahant /Arhan, which in Pali is a person who has achieved the highest stage of perfection in Theravada Buddhism. The
word Arakan therefore seems to have derived from the word Arahant. To
associated with the term Arakan is to associate with Buddhism, hence to
offend our own religion. So it is a deadly sin.
The problem is we have long been making fool of ourselves aping the Arab attribute. Why are we so impassioned about the Arabs? All
aspect of our life, such as the belief, the fake ethnicity and even the
name of our dream freehold is anointed with the Arab identity. Honestly
speaking, at the same time we have pretended not to be knowing that the
Arabs never acknowledged us part of them despite we blatantly insisted
on the claim to being their kin. They
could no longer tolerate piracy of their identity. As a matter of fact,
the Arabs disgusted us so much so that they consolidated into a secret
clique called ARAB, in order that we could no longer abuse Arab identity
nor we ever dare to utter the word Arab. You know what they meant by the acronym ARAB? It
stands for Anti-Rohingya Action Brotherhood (Fraternity). The Arab
superiority has made us inferior in fidelity. We embraced their religion
in the false hope of equality only to be looked down as the servile
class in their midst, having thrown out at us a fistful of handouts
occasionally. The duplicity in their dealing with us has long been
apparent, now it is unmistakable with the internment and public
execution in the holiest place. The obstinate illusion of the Arab blood should be put to an end. The charade should now be stopped. We should disclaim anything attributed to the Arabs.
There
is one more question about the name Rodensia which evidently is the
imitation of Malaysia. The people of that nation who are Muslin converts
themselves like us degraded the fellow immigrants to the level of pan
handlers. They have nothing in common with us to duplicate them except
the religion and the fact that we both were previously subjugated by the
British Imperialists, who on the other hand, called us Chittagonians
after the place wherefrom we were imported to work as coolies in the
rice industry. Were it not for the British colonialists we could not
have landed en mass on the Moghe soil. Basically, the British
colonialists are at the root of all the woes we are going through our
life.
Br.Nazir Ahmad, Ph.D., President,
Bengali Refugee Organization of the United Kingdom (BROUK)
*****
Brs. Bengali Professors,
I
have deep respect for your academic qualifications and unquestionable
ability to influence our people in molding attitudes against our
enemies. To my amazement, you all have become unbeatable champions in
the craft how to get nasty and personal with the Moghe, having accused
them as xenophobes, racists, bigots and hatemongers just because they
happened to question the validity of duplicitous assertions we
disseminated in a stream of misleading and falsified accounts about
history and ethnicity, despite mountains of evidence to the contrary to
our claims. In fact we are the ones who ought to be bashed on with such
despicable epithets for the rants made against them. Our
disingenuousness knows no bounds. We slandered about them at one point
and allured them at another; a sick joke in deed. The Moghe might be
half-educated or have no academic training as we arrogantly held them in
contempt, but they are not that dumb to buy our insincere overture.
This is the unfathomable folly on the part of self-elevated academics.
There
is a saw, "crocodile tears" which comes from the old belief that
crocodiles shed tears while eating the creatures they have caught. We
can't be soothing the Moghe while we masticate them to the bone. The
crocodiles snap at their prey from under water, so did we make attempt
to grasp their land cunningly. They have nothing to negotiate with or
make any compromise to us in order to give away part of their land. We
should henceforth stop the blatant duplicity, which is now getting flak
even among the Westerners, who out of ignorance, at one time believed
what we claimed to be the Arab hybrids, the race that never was, and the history which had never
been written. We have just not exhausted all silly whims that can be
fabricated but run out of Western morons who recycled our fictions. What
we do now, just resort to vulgarism?
Another
stupid tactics was to pit the Moghe against the Burmese or conversely.
Our attacks were just not directed exclusively to the Moghe but the
Burmese inclusive. Often times we made ludicrous accusation of the Mohge
as collaborators with the Military regime whom we labeled as
perpetrators of human rights. The irony is that in a twist of event,
some quarters shamelessly put up a petition for mercy to the Burmese
authorities, whom we assailed with criminal allegations. We beseeched
manipulatively support of the Westerners, who out of abject fear of
political correctness, cravenly connived at attempting to bring the
regime before the ICC on the charges of crimes against humanity. While
imposing ourselves in the vision of the Islamic freehold we sought
alliance with other religious groups. Sadly, some were more interested
in using us to promote their own purposes. It was unpalatable alliance.
Who is using who? Regrettably, we are getting our due. The hooliganism
and outright lies had eroded our credibility. People around the world
did not cuddle us let alone to welcome to their lands. We were
excoriated internationally for the link to the al-Qaeda and Taliban, who
in fact were no better either. They discriminated against us having
segregated racially and deployed as porters and human shields in the
mine-fields of the Afghan wars against the infidel invaders.
Br. Saddit Khan, Ph.D.
Professor of Rohingya Affairs
*****
All Bengali Brothers,
I
must confess that I am chagrined at the failure to steer the discussion
into a more pleasant atmosphere but, unfortunately it went wild. The
core arguments emerging from it are centered on two
circumstantialities. The first is bigotry against the Moghe following
our characteristic to place blames on others, and in this regard, poring
hostility and hatred on them who raised legitimate concerns about the
Islamic infiltration and Islamization of their homeland. I am shocked at
the vicious attacks taken place on the Internet rife with intense rage,
naked racism and accusation of contempt of our faith, the tactics meant
to demonize and silence the critics of our separatist movement. Secondly, the sentimental exhortation as to the vexing problem of the claims we made about our ethnicity and history.
But
the greater problem now is that the discussion over how to identify
ourselves has polarized our superlative academics. Let us not engage in
dissension and obstinacy. You all know that Islam spread through sword.
Accordingly, we did make in vain an attempt through the jihadist
Mujtahid uprising, which we continue under a different brand. And it is
also true that mass infiltration and demographic proliferation is the
ultimate weapon to accelerate the Islamic conquest of the world. In that
we are undeniably successful due in part to the British Masters who
enabled us to infiltrate and also our own mass breeding methods, strait
out of the book, which facilitated us to generate a self-segregated
community. But we are lacking one thing. It is the status and
recognition of us as a race. The only solution to this is the adoption
of the term Rodengya, which is conducive to our rate of breeding and
untenable numbers. It is cardinal that we should practice polygamy more
than ever.
Don't
be complicit in the deceit longer. Time has come for action. Let us
adopt the name Rodengya and baptize the envisaged Muslim freehold as
Emirate of Rodensia, which as we previously pledged will ultimately be
federated with our former homeland after having wiped out all the Moghe.
May Allah help the Rodengya genesis go global in the days ahead with
more immigrants reaching on the shores of the multiculturalist nations
in the West, especially the land of our old Colonial Masters, where we
already have nestled and established a community of our own known as the
Bengali Refugees Organization of the United Kingdom (BROUK), which
would do anything to mobilize support of the godfathers in the efforts
to realize our pipe dream.
Dr. Abu-LAIR, Eminent Professor.
Chairman of ARNO
P. S.
The
most obtrusive blunder we ever made was that we claimed ourselves the
aborigines of old Arakan despite the fact that we contemptuously called
the same land MOGHE MULLUK, the land of notorious Moghe/Rakhaings
(Arakanese). It is the self-confessed evidence of who we are and
wherefrom we originated. But, let me repeat this, we shall never admit
that we are foreign elements of Bengali strain; never ever admit,
period!
*****
This
article was triggered by the recent tectonic realignment of the
immigrant Bengali separatist movement, having organized as Arakan
Rohingya Union (ARU) on the agreed principles of an indivisible Arakan
State, Peaceful Co-existence, Democracy and Human Rights, and
Federalism, under the sponsorship of the Organization of the Islamic
Cooperation and Euro-Burma Organization. Seemingly, there is not much of
efficacy in the reorientation of the factious movement. To rid the
divisive-spirited alien Bengalis of the secessionist mindset is the
least likely of all possible outcomes: Having the Rohingya tag dangled
around is the attestation. Nevertheless, it serves as a reminder that
the misguided jihadist secessionist movement, which has all along been
languishing, now verges on being a failed cause.
INTRODUCTION
History
is replete with episodes of peoples who resisted colonization of their
homeland. The Rakhaings or Arakanese are no exception, who have
struggled to defend their ancestral land in different periods of foreign
occupation spanning over two centuries since they lost sovereignty in
1785. The Rakhaing land ( Arakan ), which has become a constituent state
of Myanmar (Burma), is now confronted with the prospect of being
overrun by the alien Bengali Muslims, the vast majority of them were
imported by the Imperialist British from the Chittagong District of
adjacent East Bengal, currently Bangladesh, coupled with the post
independent illegal migrants. Goaded by the Islamic separatist movement
of British India, the ethnically homogeneous and abysmally bigoted
Chittagonian Bengalis rose in rebellion in 1948 against the host
country, under the banner of jihadist Mujtahids (closely identified with
the Mujahadins) who demanded for a free Islamic state within the
Rakhaing state slated to be set up in the Muslim infested area adjoining
to their former homeland, the very Muslim nation whereto they pledged
to accede. Having foundered in the campaign the radical profile of the
movement was palliated to alter public perception and espoused in the
1970s, consequent upon the Bangladesh independence, a precarious
political agenda ostensibly on the social platform that played on the
card of "Rohingya", the ostensible race who were initially claimed as
hybrids of shipwrecked Arabs, an ethnological fraud devised in the
1950s, only to be supplanted subsequently by an equally fabulous claim
to being the descendants of Levanter merchants; but none of the claims
was proven its veracity.
THE TERM ROHINGYA AND THE FALLOUT
The
name "Rohingya" in the Bengali vernacular is the people of
Roshang/Rohang*, the land of Rakhaing, like Latinos are natives or
inhabitants of Latin America who, however, do not necessarily belong to
any particular group or race of South America. The Bengali immigrants,
who were beset by identity crisis, belied the term and dubbed themselves
"Rohingya" with the sinister scheme to obfuscate the Bengali ethnicity
in order to forge the status of the alien Bengalis into one of the
ethnic minorities in the hope of a good chance to legalize them as bona fide citizens of Myanmar, hence overcoming the hurdle of being ineligible for the free Islamic state.
Needless
to say, the fraudulent term "Rohingya" drew a storm of disproval from
all indigenous peoples regardless of race, creed or political
orientation, challenging the validity of the name for what it was
claimed to represent. The wrong use of a name or being known by a
different name does not make a people change their ethnicity. A Dutchman
is known as Hollander or native of the Netherlands, the Japanese as
Nippon, the Spanish in America as Latinos, the Rakhaings as Arakanese to
the West and Maughs (smearing racial slur) to the Bengalis. Likewise,
the alien Bengalis are known as Kula (foreigner) to the Rakhaings and
Chittagonians to the British colonialists, but their ethnicity does not
change just because they are known by different names or by adopting the
misnomer "Rohingya"'. The name "Rohingya" was not recognized by all
Bengali immigrants, even among the Islamist separatists. A faction of
the movement called themselves, the Itihadul Mozahadin of Arakan.
What
makes the term" Rohingya" objectionable is its intent. The motif which
was reflexively trumped up as the excuse for the separatist movement was
infused with the supremacist Islamism and thus compatible with Nazism
and Zionism, having presented itself a synergic ideology incorporating
the political Islamism and biological racism laying emphasis on
self-identification of Muslims as a political polity. Hence, what is
Nazism to the free society of the West, or Zionism to the Muslim world,
the concept of "Rohingya" is to the people of Myanmar. The Rakhaings are
the most vocal, who raised stern objection to the name since it was
made the subject of option on the demand to bifurcate their ancestral
land in favour of the Islamic state.
THE ASSAULT ON RAKHAINGS
Simmering
frustration stemmed from the failure to pretend to be different from
what they really are, given the stiff resistance across the nation, set
off the Bengali separatists to decry the Rakhaings who were held
accountable for the setback. It is unbecoming of the elements of
arrogance to pass rude remarks and characterization of the Rakhaings in
the calumnious terms. The Bengali Muslims have been inherently
influenced by race-bias and their comments on the Rakhaings are
pertinent. They seem to be consumed only with personal attacks rather
than addressing the substance of the issue. Perhaps, they are in anguish
from want of legal grounds. The worst still is the threat of violence
and deadly retribution other than the human rights violations. The
abusive remarks and hateful language proved by themselves a deranged
attempt on the part of the Bengali netizens to intimidate and silence
the Rakhaings who insistently rejected the farcical claims in their
vigorous efforts to defend their homeland against the Islamic incursion.
Adding
insult to injury is the condescending manners of apologists in the West
who were driven by self-obsession. It is fallibility of judgement to
patronize the Rakhaings who are being robbed of their land by the
illegal immigrant Bengali Muslims. Dabbling in the Rohingya mania, the
panderers in the West, out of sheer political motives, made scathing
remarks to the point of deriding the ethnic nationalities, particularly
the Rakhaings, for the staunch opposition to the term "Rohingya",
notwithstanding the fact that it only explains the visceral appeal of
patriotism and the national solidarity against the Islamic aggression.
It is the unity in defence against the danger foisted upon the national
security and territorial integrity. Democracy movement and opposition to
a regime or political entity is one thing, but devotion to the cause of
safeguarding the sovereignty and commitment to the general principles
of primary loyalty to the nation is another. No self-respect individual,
whichever ethnic nationality he belongs to, will connive with
pugnacious Chittagonian separatists who, with the support and guidance
of external patrons, committed acts of subversion directed to seizing
part of the Union territory, which is the tribal land of some other
ethnic group. In the West, let alone the unity within one nation, but
different nations were united in the wake of Nazi invasion and Communist
dominance; and the Muslims all over the world, who stoked fires of
jihad, ganged up together to wage battles against infidels.
CONCERNED-ABOUT-BENGALIS WESTERNERS
Beating
the Bengali drum the self-obsessive Western liberals made the argument
which contained in the briefing paper of Euro-Burma Organization that, "Rakhaings
have demanded the name 'Rohingya' be dropped. While the concern over
the use of the name is understandable and must be taken into account, it
remains a fact that in a free society people can call themselves by any
name they wish."1 But,
it is also a fact that some names are objectionable for the intent,
like the name Nazi which remains an anathema to the free society of
theirs.
Portended also in the pedagogic allocution is that "The
more Arakanese Muslims are excluded and marginalized in Arakan, the
more likely they are to ask for a separate state. They will not ask a
state if they can co-exist as equal in Arakan state."2 This biased mantra does not lead to the end of Bengali problem. The
facts of history lend discountenance to the wisecrack. It's only meant
to argue that the disease is the cure: Just embrace them as an ethnic
minority accepting the false identity of "Rohingya"; simply ignore their
aspiration for self-identification of Muslims as a group which should
have a political place in the Union and a special territory in the land
of Rakhaing; and merely co-operate with them in their quest for the
fulfillment of Islamic inspiration. It apparently is sort of admonition
the ardent supporters had in common with the alien Bengali separatists
intended to reproof the Rakhaings, and for that matter other ethnic
nationalities as well, for their resistance against the Islamic
aggression.
The
Bengali supporters evidently heaped much blame on the indigenous
Buddhist Rakhaings who were accused of excluding the alien Bengali
Muslims, while they failed to deal with the root cause which led to the
strained relationship and political rancor between the two communities.
In reality the alleged exclusion or marginalization of the alien Muslims
was a natural consequence of the perfidy that fired up their
imagination for setting up a free Islamic state, having it curved out of
the Rakhaing land. To phrase it differently, the separatist movement of
immigrant Bengalis was not resulted from the exclusion and
marginalization as prejudicially concluded on the basis of false
accusation of inequity to justify their inexcusable Islamist revolt, but
it was the other way round. The alien Bengali Muslims, who portrayed
themselves as victims, have been agitating for the acquisition of the
Rakhaing land since the British time after they had met with Muhammed
Ali Jinnah, the leader of the Muslim League of British India and
architect of Pakistan nation, at the meeting of the League which was
held at Lahore in March 1940. Driven by the inflammatory rhetoric of Jinnah that Muslims, "must have their homelands, their territory and their state"3,
the Bengali separatist movement, an offshoot of the nationalist
movement of the Muslim League, learned from the Pakistan Independence
and grew from it.
One
should not overlook the fact that the so-called Rohnigya Bengalis are
foreigners, having them arbitrarily imported by the reigning
colonialists without the consent and at the expense of indigenous
people. They have no legal claim to the land or entitled to a state for
themselves like the Muslims in British India who are native converts and
thus had the rights to a territory of their own as mandated by the
government of British India. Besides, the divisive alien Bengalis had
never been part of the national struggle for independence from the
British colonialists; on the contrary they collaborated with the
occupying masters in the dream of a separate state. The combination of
foreign origin, anti-nationalist movement and separatist campaign bred
conflict between the native Buddhist Rakhaings and alien Bengali Muslims
who looked always towards their co-religionists abroad. Accordingly,
there is no legitimate reason to complain about the exclusion or
marginalization which was fueled by nativism and deep distrust in the
subversive immigrant Bengali Muslims. The complaint is only an attempt
to blame others in order to excuse from their own misdeeds. Nor there
exists the question of irredentist aspiration as conjured up without any
ground whatsoever.
One other self-complacent remark is that "The historical authenticity of a name is not also an issue,"4.
It is just a superficial approach to the Rohingya problem. The
authenticity of the name was claimed in relevance to history. But,
history does not bear out the term being in existence. Either during the
era of Rakhaing monarchy or Burmese domination or in the records of
Imperialist British Administration, there was never documented the
existence of a group of Muslims duped as " Rohingya", fraudulently
claimed to be the hybrid race of Arab castaways or genetically connected
with the merchants from the Levant. Nonexistence of so-called
"Rohingya" in Arakan is evident given the records of the Imperialist
British. The 1906 Akyab District Gazetteer states:
Indigenous
Races: - Arakanese (239,649), Burmese (35,751), Kamis (11,95), Mros
(10,074), Chins(9,415),Diangnets (3,412),Chaungthas(247)and Thets(232).
Non-Indigenous
Races: - British(209), Eurasians(158), Chinese(4390), Shaikhs
(152,074), Saiyyads (1,254), Pathans (126), Zairbadis (108), other
Muslims (1,325), Sudras (6,016), Kayasths (2,888), Uriyas (625),
Brahmans (398), Chatris (377), Dhobis (263), Waddars (233), Nats (226),
Burua Maghs (165), Chettis (164), Doms (143), Malas (142), Marabans
(125), Banias (114) and other Hindus Castes (2,104).5
Obviously,
the alleged "Rohingya" race was not mentioned in either of the two
categories above, nor was it featured in the 1947 constitution,
whereupon the independent nation of Burma was established, or its
successors a clause honouring the immigrant Bengali Muslims as an ethnic
minority or the name "Rohingya" as their designation.
The
nomenclature of phony Rohingya is much equivocal and varied as dubbed
at the will of writers. To some pragmatic writers the term is Muslims of
South Asian descent, Bengali Muslims or Arakan Muslims. It is
indisputable fact that the immigrant Bengali leaders who fathered the
Islamist separatist movement named themselves Arakan Muslims as stated
in the manifesto, “Charter of Demands of Arakan Muslims”. Despite being
disputed on the validity of the term "Rohingya", the same name was
arbitrarily legitimized by the pandering Westerners to identify the
alien Bengali Muslims in question. Here is an example contained in the
report of Irish Center for Human Rights:
"Reference
to the Muslims of North Arakan as "the Rohingyas" continues to be a
somewhat contentious in Burma. Arakan was formerly known as
Rohang/Roshang/Raham. The Rohingya name identifies the Muslims of Arakan
as natives of Rohang or of Arakan. Hence Rohingya is synonymous with
"Arakanese" or "Rakhine".
The
ethnic majority Rakhine fundamentally rejects any suggestion that
Rohingya should be considered an ethnic group with bona fide historical
roots in the region; indeed the Rakhines contend that they only
encountered the word "Rohingya" in the 1950s during the time of Mujihid
movement. A similar view is held by the Araknese Muslims resident
outside of Maungdaw, Buthidaung and Rathedaung townships, who did not
support the independence and irredentist claims made by the Rohingyas on
a number of occasions since Burmese Independence in1948. The Rohongya
community reject the argument that the term " Rohingya" was invented in
the 1950s and contend that this is an ancient term that was used much
before the Burmese Independence. However, it is evident that the Muslim
residents in North Arakan who preferred to be designated "Rohingya" as
opposed to "Burmese Muslim" have developed a culture and language (a
mixture of Chittagonian, Burmese, Hindi and English) which is absolutely
unique to the region. It is felt that the term "Rohingya" is a
legitimate identification for this group and will be used throughout the
report."6
To
those who take a role to set the politically correct liberalist agenda
the truth is of no value if it does not suit with their own preconceived
notions and self-interests. They should not venture their volition on
others in violation of their own principles. They are apparently beaten
by the filthy tricks of Bengali Muslims and self-delusive heretics. The
term Arakanese or Rakhaings is historically applied to the indigenous
Mongoloid Buddhists only, not the alien Bengali Muslims; for that reason
the so-called Rohingya are no Arakanese, nor do they have claim to
being Rakhaings. "Literally, embodiment of Rakhaing is an
ethno-religious affiliation: Ethnicity is Mongoloid and religion is
Buddhism. Neither race or faith alone constitutes the unique breed of
Rakhaing."7 In
other words, the Arakanese or Rakhaings are Buddhists and the fictitious
Rohingya are Muslims each group belongs to a different ethnicity and
culture. "Rohingya", therefore, is not synonymous with Arakanese or
Rakhaing. To suggest the two distinct races of different faith and
culture being synonymous with each other is the most inscrutable logical
conclusion given the irony of reality that the Protestant Irish cannot
be accepted as symbolic substitute for the Catholic Irish, albeit both
belong to the same race and share the same culture. This is not just a
delusion but also the profound ignorance of the historical truth, with
an arrogant disregard of ethics.
C.E.
Lucas Phillips, a Brigadier General in the British Fourteenth Army, who
fought on the Arakan front during the Second World War, clarifies the
ethnicity, language, religion and national origin of the fictional
Rohingya.
"Arakan is a province of Burma that has a character all its own." 8"The
two main strains of the population, mutually hostile, divided by race,
language and religion, were of Muslim and Buddhist persuasions
respectively. The Buddhists, to whom the term 'Arakanese' was in these
parts specially applied, belong to a tribe or strain known as Maugh or
Mughs.9 " " The Muslims had their origin in the
district of Chittagong, in the Bengal province of British India, and all
the Muslims, whether natives of Arakan for generations or recent
immigrants, were known as Chittagonians, or in the British forces as
'CF'..... A bewildering babel of language was spoken by these people.
The Arakanese spoke a dialect of Burmese, but the Chttagonian stuck to
the Bengali of their homeland, but, if educated, spoke Urdu as well." 10
It
was asserted that the term" Rohingya" was legitimate identification for
the Chittagonian Bengalis from the Maungdaw, Buthidaung and Rathidaung
area** taking into account the unique culture and language (a mixture of
Chittagonian, Burmese, Hindi and English). In the modern world most
languages are not without loan words from others as cultural traits
passed from one people to another. The Chittagonian dialect of fictional
Rohingya of Bengali strain makes no difference either. Hindi, the
Indian vernacular, spread influence into social system of the Indian
sub-Continent. They might have adapted to some Burmese words of the land
they migrated and conformed to the English usages of the British Raj,
the official language of the region. English language is the best
example with loans from different parts of the world, the British Indian
Empire in particular. A couple of stripes on the Celtic lion do not
transform it to a Bengal tiger. The absorption of a few foreign words
under cultural and geographical circumstances does not make the said
Chittagonian dialect unique in order to warrant a determinant factor to
legitimate their ethnic identity as "Rohingya", being different from the
Chittagonian Bengalis in the adjacent land. It is obviously untenable
logic, posing a vexed question as to the notion.
Faulty
reasoning is also the presumptuous presentment that the Bengalis in
question have developed an absolutely unique culture. Evidently, the
apologists seemed to have badly been engrossed in the Chittagonian
Bengali propaganda. The Bengali separatist movement was dedicated to the
Islamic nationalism and self-identification of Muslims as a group with
their religion and culture intact. The Bengali Muslim separatists, who
strictly adhered to the Islamic dogma are adamantly opposed to the local
culture like the rest of Muslims. Case in point is the dysfunctional
multiculturalism of the West where the Muslim immigrants doggedly clung
to the Islamic culture. The cultural traits of fictive Rohingya are in
affinity with their Chittagonian brethren next door, who belong to the
same ethnicity, profess the same faith, speak the same dialect and
remain wedded to the same tradition, social customs, dietary law and
habit of dressing and housing. Such being the case, one is led to wonder
out loud how the Bengalis in question should have developed an
absolutely unique culture separate from what that flourished in their
former homeland across the border where their genesis appertains. The
corollary: The cultural mores of the Irish in Northern Ireland, with the
exception of the religious denomination to some extent, are regarded
not being otherwise from their brethren in Ireland.
The
Bengali separatists, like the al-Qaeda, used the European apologists
and publicists to achieve their political objective. Having exhausted
the unproductive efforts courting the European middlemen, they found a
potential medium for propaganda in the venue of the United States
Congress, and particularly in the person of Rep. Christopher Smith (R)
from New Jersey, which is home of a large Muslim community, wherein two
of the 9/11 hijackers spent some time prior to the catastrophic attacks.
Following a visit to the US Congress of a Mujtahid-turned-Rohingya
delegation organized by the Christian Solidarity Worldwide, a resolution
apparently in the name of social equality and human rights of the
minority races in Myanmar was introduced by Congressman Smith on
September 29, 2010. In reality
the resolution, which was verbatim repeating of the statement previously
published by the Bengali Islamist separatists, was by all means in the
language of emphatic bias towards and to the sole interest of the
Islamist separatists. Predictably, the resolution never reached the
floor. Repulsive as is the purpose, the unsettling issue of the ethnic
minorities was unwarrantedly exploited by the Multahid-turned-Rohingya
separatists to meet their own ends, making use of the good offices of
the US law makers. The pity is that Mr. Smith & Co. was just one
instant, who were used as the so-called Rohingya should use any weighty
politician who would be parroting their manufactured propaganda, and the
government chancelleries which would be useful to them; on this account
the United Nations Organizations is not to the contrary, which was
exploited to cultivate the purported "Rohingya" that incarnated the whim
of Bengali secessionist movement anew, having hankered after the
non-Bengali identity.
BENGALI STRATEGY
In
a twist of propaganda the Bengali separatists transformed the illegal
Bengali immigration issue into instigated refugee crisis and the
resistance against Islamization into religious persecution and racial
discrimination in order to legitimate their separatist movement
peddling, through the help of advocacy groups around the world,
extravagant claims of oppression against the Muslims and the Islamic
faith. They played on the stereotype of religious persecution laying
emphasis on the prejudice against Buddhist religion, which induced the
Western panderers, who treated the Muslim problems as byproduct of
Buddhism, to play politics smearing freedom of religion. The Buddhist
religion is the faith of many ethnic minorities who are in conflict with
the co-religionist Burmese majority. The fault line in Myanmar is
racial acrimony rather than religious persecution. The national origin
coupled with ethnic identity is the heart of the Rohingya problem.
Antonio Graceffo rightly made the assessment:
"They
(Rohingya the author met) made comments like, the Buddhists did this to
us, the Buddhists did that to us. But I know from my own experience,
the Burmese government hates all of the ethnic minorities. They do
horrible things to them equally. They persecute Christians and other
Buddhist alike. It is not because of religion but because of race. In
Arakan State, the area where these men come from, there are basically
only two types of peoples, Rohingya and the government/military people.
And the government/military people just happen to be Buddhists. So the
only experience these people ever had with Buddhists was of being
mistreated and repressed by the Burmese government." 11
The
predisposed liberals, who indulged in the massively exaggerated Bengali
propaganda, overzealously conflated all issues related to the Muslims
with religious persecution, racial discrimination and human rights
violations while conveniently overlooked the inexorable realities that
the Bengali Muslim problems were attributable to their own
accreditations, namely, the rebellion against the host country, the
illegitimacy of which was evidenced by a lack of support from countries
around the world even from many Islamic nations; and their connection
with the global network of terrorist organizations affiliated to the
al-Qaeda and Taliban, whereupon
they were excoriated internationally, including Saudi Arabia.
Compounded as well are such factors as the political turmoil, social
retardation and economic volatility nationwide. The economic downturn
prompted the younger generations of many races, not only the fictitious
Rohingya, to venture on perilous journeys by sea or by land in search of
a better life in the neighbouring countries.
Historically,
the greater numbers of alleged Rohingya are illiterate, who are rural
peasants and manual workers. They have never been well off in the
Bengali over-swarmed area, which is afflicted by economic stagnation. As
a matter of fact the misguided separatist movement was largely the
intellectual brainchild of the ambitious, influent and affluent
non-Dravidian urbanites with little contact among the bulk of the rural
Dravidian stock. The political manipulation of the separatist movement
was not about to alleviate the level of abject poverty of the rural
Dravidian mass, nor to address the enormous social gap between the
wealthy non-Dravidian oppidans and the agrestic poor proletariat who
unfortunately had to bear the brunt of the consequences of misadventure,
while the wrangling, power-mongering elite leadership class found for
themselves the privileged life overseas.
CONCLUSION
The
Rakhaings are not insensitive about the plight of destitute Bengali
Muslims, who became victims of the ill-fated Islamist secessionist
movement, or they condone violations of human rights by any means or in
any form anywhere in the land. The alien Bengalis were not alone who
were subjected to such abuses but others too, the Rakhaings inclusive.
The apologists in the West wistfully put emphasis on the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights which, however, was regrettably the
consequence but not the cause of the Second World War of Imperial
Powers. Hundreds of years prior to and immediately after its adoption on
December 10, 1948 the servile people of so-called Third World lived in
subhuman conditions under raw colonialism in their own lands.
Ironically, the European hypocrites, notwithstanding their gory past,
who made them seen as the champions of human rights, failed to come to
the aid of the Roma in their own backyard who are the most discriminated
peoples depriving of citizenship and personal identification documents
required for social services and other benefits. Nevertheless, there was
an outpouring of outcry over the situation of so-called Rohingya, in
stark contrast to the deafening silence from the same advocacy groups
about the human rights violations, including pogroms, inflicted on the
non-Muslim ethnic minorities of the Chittagong Hill Tracts in
Bangladesh, which happened to be the hub of Mujtahid-turned-Rohingya
secessionist operation. The lack of response to the abuses inflicted on
the non-Muslim peoples revealed much about the inconsistency of the
self-proclaimed human rights activists. The human rights issue is a
noble purpose to pursue, but if misled conscientiously or
unconscientiously it might just be the opposite, leading to the
probability of bringing misunderstanding upon the objective and
integrity of the pursuers.
In
the light of current rumpus against the threat of Islamic encroachment
and home grown jihadists in the West a question is aptly posed for the
civil libertarians, who are unwittingly enabling the Islamic
secessionism, as to how would they put themselves in a similar situation
as imperiled by the grossly amassed alien Bengali separatists, since
their world is now pullulated with Muslims who emigrated, not without
but with the consent, and in some cases in the interest of host
countries.
Given
the energetic current of pandering the partisans in the West seemed to
have fallen victim to the absurd stories of the Bengali Muslims
regarding their unsubstantiated ethnicity, despite the fact that what
they claimed did not tally with historical records and official
documents. In order to understand the national objection to the term
"Rohingya", and thus the roots of Muslim problem itself, one has to be
acquainted oneself with works of noted historians other than history
tabloids of the Bengali separatists and conjectural accounts of their
Western patrons who are keen on quid pro quo. There are many
works by the British scholars-cum-administrators who served with the
British Colonial Administration in Rakhaing, or Arakan as referred to,
who are regarded as undisputed authority on the history of Rakhaing.
They had no reason to be bias towards or against the subject peoples,
the Rakhaings or the Bengali Muslims who were imported from the adjacent
land as part of transmigration that accompanied the British colonial
expansion.
Emphatically,
the noted historians of unquestionable integrity and fortitude, who
belonged to the yesteryear, would not have been cowed or at best
terror-stricken by a phantom threat of Islamist jihadists, who yarned
for global Islamization, nor would have they pursued the self-protective
political stance exploited through escapism and appeasement to the
Muslim world, which strived to gain power over the once overweening
adversary using state actors who wiggled at the whiff of Crescent Funds.
It is apt to reproduce an excerpt from the writer's own work, "Seeing
through the Islamic prism, the West is the West, there is no
distinction between nations, all are the same Imperialist racists
despite their desperate efforts to prove otherwise. By the same token an
infidel is the enemy of Islam regardless of the ostensible pro-Islamic
stunt, no matter how hard one might exert oneself to find favour in the
eyes of the Muslims" 12
NOTES:
* Through
the history the land of Rakhaing, a traditional Buddhist kingdom, was
known in different names as described by foreigners in their travel
logs, such as Rakhangapura, Racha, Rachim, Rcon, Roshang,Yakhai, Argyre
and Arakan.
** The
Rakhaing land, having taken over by the British from the Burmese
occupiers, became the Arakan Division in British Burma. It was divided
into three districts, namely Akyab, Kyaukpru and Sandoway. Akyab
district was where the Bengali immigrants concentrated most, especially
in the townships of Maungdaw, Buthidaung and Rathidaung, geographically
in the order of proximity to the adjoining Bengali land.
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1. Euro-Burma Briefing Paper No.2, 2009; THE ROHINGYAS, Bengali Muslims or Arakan Rohingyas?
2. Ibid;
3. A.C. Banerjee,ed., Indian Constitutional Documents, Calcutta, A. Mukherjee and Co.,1946,II, p.408;
4. Euro-Burma Briefing Paper No.2, 2009;
5. Burma
Gazetteer, Akyab District, R. B. Smart (Deputy Commissioner) Settlement
Officer, Akyab, Government Printing, Rangoon, 1917,Volum A, p.84;
6. Report of Irish Center for Human Rights about Rohingyas, 2010, p.21;
7. THE RAKHAING, Maung Tha Hla, Buddhist Rakhaing Cultural Association, New York, 2004, p.17;
8. The Raiders of Arakan, C. E. Lucas Phillips, Heinemann, London, 1971, p.4;
9. Ibid, p.8;
10. Ibid, p.9;
11. Report on Refugee Resettlement, 2010;
12. ROHINGYA HOAX, Maung Tha Hla, Buddhist Rakhaing Cultural Association, New York, 2009, p.74.
The
writer Maung Tha Hla is founding President of the Buddhist Rakhaing
Cultural Association of the United States of America, a non-profit
organization, founded on July 13, 1996. He is the author of two books
which can be accessed in most of the eminent libraries around the world:
1. THE RAKHAING;
2. ROHINGYA HOAX.
ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္တြင္
က်ေရာက္ေနသည့္ ဘာသာကြယ္၊ လူမ်ိဳးေပ်ာက္ နယ္ေျမတစ္ေလွ်ာက္အား သိမ္းပိုက္ရန္
ႀကံရြယ္၍ စံမံကိန္းျဖင့္ဖန္တီးေနေသာ အႏၲရာယ္ႀကီးတစ္ရပ္အား ကာကြယ္ႏိုင္ရန္
သံတြဲၿမိဳ႕နယ္၏ညီၫြတ္ေသာ ရဟန္းေတာ္မ်ားကြန္ယက္ကို ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္၊
သံတြဲၿမိဳ႕ သိမ္ကုန္းပရိယတၱိ စာသင္တိုက္၌ ေအာက္တိုဘာ (၂၇) ရက္ေန႔က
ဖြဲ႔စည္းခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သတင္းရရွိသည္။
ေအာက္တုိဘာလ(၂၅)ရက္ေန႔၊
နံနက္(၅)နာရီတြင္ ေက်ာက္ေတာ္ၿမိဳ႕နယ္၊ စစ္ေတြ-ရန္ကုန္ကားလမ္း
တစ္ဖက္တစ္ခ်က္တြင္ ဘဂၤလီမ်ားသည္ စစ္တပ္မ်ား၏ အားကိုးျဖင့္
ေဒသခံရခိုင္မ်ားကို ၿခိမ္းေျခာက္ဆဲဆိုၿပီး ရန္စရာမွ တိုက္ခိုက္မႈမ်ား
ျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သိရွိိရသည္။
ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္အႏွံ႔
ဘဂၤလီ-ရခိုင္ ႏွစ္ဘက္ပဋိပကၡအတြင္း အေသအေပ်ာက္မ်ားႏွင့္
ထိခိုက္ဒဏ္ရာရရွိမႈမ်ားသည္ လံုၿခံဳေရးတပ္ဖြဲ႔၀င္မ်ား၏ တစ္ဖက္သတ္
ကိုင္တြယ္ေျဖရွင္းပံုေၾကာင့္ ေသဆံုးသူအေရအတြက္ပိုမိုမ်ားျပားခဲ့ရေၾကာင္း
ရခုိင့္ေတာ္လွန္ေရး၊ ႏိုင္ငံေရးေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားႏွင့္
ရခိုင္လူမႈ႔အဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ားက ေျပာဆိုလိုက္သည္။
ေအာက္တိုဘလအတြင္း
ေျမာက္ဦး-မင္းျပားတြင္ ျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့သည္ ဆူပူအၾကမ္းဖက္မႈမ်ားေၾကာင့္
ယခုအခါတြင္ မီးေဘးဒုကၡသည္ႏွင့္ ေနအိမ္စြန္႔ခြာထြက္ေျပးသူေပါင္း ၃၀၀၀
ခန္႔ရွိေၾကာင္း သတင္းရရွိသည္။
ျမန္မာမွဘဂၤလာသို႔
ႏွစ္ႏိုင္ငံ နယ္စပ္စီးပြားေရးဇုန္မွ ဆားေမႀတိတန္ခ်ိန္ေပါင္း (၁၂၅၀)
ယခုလအတြင္း တင္ပို႔ခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သက္ဆိုင္ရာက ထုတ္ေဖၚေျပာဆိုလိုက္သည္။