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Footage emerges showing Myanmar police beating Rohingya Muslims

A Rohingya couple whose two elder sons were taken by the Myanmarese military pose for a photograph with their younger children after their escape from Myanmar, in a refugee camp in Teknaf, in Bangladesh, November 24, 2016. (Photo by AFP)

A new video has emerged showing Myanmar’s police using excessive force against Rohingya Muslims in the western state of Rakhine.  A front-page story on Monday in the state-owned Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper said that the video clip was recorded by a police constable. The footage shows Myanmar’s police beating …

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Malaysian Islamic Leader ready to quit his post after flak for attending Tehran Unity Conference

PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang

PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang said he is prepared to resign as vice-president of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) after receiving flak from the union for his visit to Tehran. “I have written a letter (of explanation) and am prepared to resign. “I’m holding the position not because …

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Myanmar to “write history” without Muslims

Myanmar to write ‘history’ without Muslims

Myanmar´s religious affairs ministry plans to write a book to prove the Rohingya are not indigenous to the country, as tensions grow over a brutal military crackdown on the Muslim minority. Almost 27,000 Rohingya have crossed into Bangladesh since the beginning of November, the UN said on Tuesday, fleeing a …

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Mainstream Media Lies About Syria Exposed

The lies of the Mainstream Media on Syria exposed eloquently by Canadian journalist, Eva Bartlett at the Permanent Mission of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations meeting on December 9, 2016   [embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueyWGyddepw[/embedyt]   Permanent Mission of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations – Press Conference, …

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Bahrain Sentences Shaykh Ali Salmaan to 9 Years in Jail

Bahrain’s appeals court has ruled to uphold a nine-year jail sentence handed down to senior Shia opposition cleric, Sheikh Ali Salman, despite widespread criticism both at home and abroad against his imprisonment. A judicial source said the verdict was issued during a Monday trial session. On the eve of the …

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Exclusive Interview with Sayyid Nasrallah discussing football, food, politics and books

In an exclusive six-hour-long interview with Ibrahim al-Amin, Wafic Qanso, Hassan Ileik, and Maha Zureikat from Al-Akhbar, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah took the time to discuss issues ranging from Syria, the recent Gaza war, the 2006 war with Israel, domestic Lebanese issues, and his own personal habits. Do you …

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Shia mosques bombed in Nigeria, 8 killed

Suspected Boko Haram militants have targeted two Shia mosques in northeast Nigeria with bomb attacks, killing at least six worshippers and injuring several others. The two mosques in the town of Potiskum in Nigeria’s Yobe State were targeted by bombers late Tuesday. Eyewitnesses blamed the Takfiri Boko Haram terrorists for …

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Bolivian president: Israel is a terrorist state

Bolivia on Wednesday renounced a visa exemption agreement with Israel in protest over its assault on Gaza, and declared it a terrorist state. President Evo Morales announced the move during a talk with a group of educators in the city of Cochabamba. It “means, in other words, we are declaring …

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