South East Asia

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• Malaysia: Siti Kasim: An inconvenient woman
  20 August 2019, by siawi3

  Siti reminds us why people who read are dangerous to the established order of things, and continues in her effort to save Malaysia from the political and religious class who view her as a threat to their dominion.

• D’où vient le bouddhisme radical ?
  23 août 2019, par siawi3

  En Asie du Sud et du Sud-Est, la montée de l’extrémisme religieux n’épargne pas les bouddhistes

• Indonesia: Court drops blaphemy case against Jakarta former Governor, still guilty of insulting individual Muslims
  21 April 2017, by siawi3

  Ahok’s po­lit­i­cal ri­val de­feated him in the Jakarta gu­ber­na­to­rial elec­tion by rid­ing a wave of grow­ing re­li­gious con­ser­vatism. Pros­e­cu­tors de­cided to drop blas­phemy charges against him; they could not prove Ahok had in­sulted Is­lam as a whole, but only in­di­vid­ual Mus­lims who be­lieved that Su­rah Al Maidah 51 in­structed them not to choose non-Mus­lims as lead­ers... However, prosecutors de­manded a two years’ pro­ba­tion if found guilty of vi­o­lat­ing Ar­ti­cle 156 of the Crim­i­nal Code (KUHP) on show­ing an­i­mos­ity to­ward oth­ers.

• Myanmar seizes boat carrying 93 fleeing Rohingya camps for Malaysia
  27 November 2018, by siawi3

  The navy stopped the boat on Sunday and detained the 93 people, who said they had come from the Thae Chaung camp in the Rakhine State

• Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi: Amnesty strips Myanmar leader of top prize
  15 November 2018, by siawi3

  United Nations investigators concluded that, while she was not complicit in the alleged genocide last year, she had failed to use her moral authority to help prevent the murder and rape of thousands of Rohingyas by the still-dominant army.

• Myanmar refugees’ forced repatriation
  18 November 2018, by siawi3

  More than 700,000 Rohingya have fled across the border to Bangladesh after a campaign of violence in Rakhine state in August 2017, described by a recent UN fact-finding mission as genocide, was carried out by the Myanmar military and some Buddhist Rakhine people against the Muslim minority. Tens of thousands of Rohingya were killed, and UN investigators found evidence of mass rape and torture. A UN official said recently that the genocide in Rahkine was “ongoing”. Rohingya fears grow as refugees face forcible return to Myanmar

• Malaysia: Muslim fundamentalists target LGBT’s and Women’s March
  10 August 2019, by siawi3

  De facto Islamic Affairs Minister Mujahid Yusof Rawa slammed the defence of LGBT rights at the march as an abuse of democratic space, as he said it was against Islamic teachings.

• Communiqué
  1 May 2010, by siawi2
  COMMUNIQUÉ DU CONSEIL D’ILGA-ASIE AU SUJET DE L’ANNULATION DE LA 4ÈME CONFÉRENCE RÉGIONALE À SURABAYA, EN INDONÉSIE
  Source: ILGA 07/04/2010 12:02
  La 4ème Conférence d’ILGA-Asie qui devait se tenir à Surabaya en Indonésie entre le 26 et le 28 mars a  (...)
• Indonesia: Fears grow over app to police minorities
  3 December 2018, by siawi3

  The launch of a mobile application that allows members of the public to report beliefs they consider to be misguided or heretical has sparked fears that it could lead to increased persecution of minority groups in the country.

• Malaysia: anti semitism is the Malay nationalism of idiots
  6 August 2019, by siawi3

  “Anti-Semitism is mainstream in Malay politics. Anything wrong with the Muslim world is blamed on the Jews. We have hosted despotic theocratic regimes. We have welcomed religious tyrants. We have courted religious fanatics. We have embraced religious extremists who mock the religions of the non-Muslims in this country.”

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