The ‘Rohingya’ in Myanmar Reply

Myanmar’s 800,000 stateless Rohingya are viewed by the UN as among the most persecuted minorities on the planet

Myanmar’s 800,000 stateless Rohingya are viewed by the UN as among the most persecuted minorities on the planet

The ‘Rohingya’ in Myanmar

The discrimination against mostly stateless Muslims in Rakhine State in Myanmar has caught world attention following serious communal unrest in June 2012. Since Burmese independence in 1948, the name “Rohingya” has increasingly been used to designate these unfortunate people. More…

Cambodia/Islam: Cambodia Muslims Dream of Islamic Finance Reply

Mosque in Kampot Province, Cambodia

Mosque in Kampot Province, Cambodia

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PHNOM PENH, 21 Rabi al-Thani/14 March (IINA)-Aspiring to a better standard of living, Cambodia’s Muslims are dreaming of introducing the Islamic finance to the Buddhist country to lure investments from the Muslims-majority states in the Middle East and Asia.

“Most investors in the Middle East are certainly looking for Islamic-compliant business in countries that aren’t majority Muslim,” Ashraf Bin Md Hashim, head of consultancy at the International Sharia Research Academy for Islamic Finance, told the Phnom Penh Post on Monday, March 12. More…