A handful of militants expelled tens of thousands of Myanmar’s Muslims, using brutal tactics, from their own homes. They murdered their children, women, men, and looted their properties. Those who could only hope to survive simply ran away. Meanwhile, there is silence over the globe. The UN does not utter a word, human rights committees are hushed, and the Red Cross feels no responsibility. These farcical conferences and organizations advocating for human rights, defending peace, and so on and so forth: they have nothing to say as if these victims are not human!
Ultimately, the silence reveals the world’s enmity towards Islam, Islamic concepts and values. Their behavior reveals how uncommitted and negligent they are regarding humans. What they describe as human rights, and related terms, are merely political gimmicks used to knock someone down somewhere and overestimate another, to weaken a government and to remove a populace from the picture.
Unfortunately, these words never reach the public debate platform in Europe or the US, so that the Western people can understand what their rulers are doing around the world. Our people know these facts; they know that superpowers are liars when it comes to defending human rights. Those naive people who trust their claims [claims of the superpowers] must heed these words. They did not condemn the Israeli invasion of Lebanon or the Israeli invasion of Muslims who rightfully own Palestine; they do not mention Kashmir issues; they completely censor issues concerning Muslims of Myanmar. Why? What crime have these poor people committed? Their only crime is that they are Muslims. Superpowers are enemies of Islam and fear Islam.
Imam Khamenei, March 04, 1992
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