Obama: Myanmar won't succeed if Muslims are oppressed

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Posted: 4/27/2014 1:15:19 AM EDT

U.S. President Barack Obama said on Sunday that the rights of Myanmar's minority Muslim population were not being fully protected and warned that the Southeast Asian country would not succeed if Muslims there were oppressed.

On a visit to Malaysia, Obama praised political reforms under way in once-isolated Myanmar but said the danger of democratization was that it could unleash religious and ethnic conflicts and that such developments could move Myanmar in a bad direction.

Full story by Reuters at http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/27/us-myanmar-obama-idUSBREA3Q05220140427

Posted: 4/27/2014 1:18:30 AM EDT

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He should stay there and protect them himself.

Posted: 4/27/2014 1:39:26 AM EDT

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His one true love always rises to the surface.

Posted: 4/27/2014 1:44:03 AM EDT

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Posted: 4/27/2014 1:47:30 AM EDT

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FBHOATM

Posted: 4/27/2014 1:52:33 AM EDT

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How very true

Posted: 4/27/2014 1:57:17 AM EDT

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Egypt can succeed without the Coptic christians though.

Posted: 4/27/2014 2:05:34 AM EDT

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How dare you

Posted: 4/27/2014 2:09:09 AM EDT

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Don't worry they are slaughtering children in southern Thailand. Don't mind all the pictures of it online. Probably photoshopped.

Posted: 4/27/2014 2:53:36 AM EDT

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The emergence of a synergistic theocratic democracy is the new paradigm. It's the future!!!!! (Allah wills it)

Posted: 4/27/2014 2:58:05 AM EDT

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Hey, if Allah wills that Muslims blow shit up, who are we to deny them religious freedom.

That's what it's about right Hussein ?

Fuck that piece of shit

Posted: 4/27/2014 3:07:35 AM EDT

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FBHO

Posted: 4/27/2014 4:22:11 AM EDT

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yes. they. will. cockmagnet

Posted: 4/27/2014 4:26:01 AM EDT

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Posted: 4/27/2014 4:27:58 AM EDT

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The religion of peace championed by a Kenyan Christian. Pigs are flying around a lot lately.

Posted: 4/27/2014 4:37:44 AM EDT

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That's Malaysia, but ya, same thing.

My wife commented last night about some ol' story of Muslims killing non Muslims and I said, that's what they do now. It may be a minority of them, but that's their image now.

Like it or not, Muslims kill non Muslims, that's their legacy. that will be their history.

Christians are still trying to live down the inquisition and Christopher Columbus shenanigans.

Posted: 4/27/2014 4:39:15 AM EDT

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It is odd that Obama sides with the 4% Muslim population in the country. My question is, in Myanmar is the problem that they are Muslim or is it that the Muslim religion has a mandate of separation and domination over other religions by force?

ETA: is Obama going to stop by Saudi Arabia and promote religious tolerance on his way home?

Posted: 4/27/2014 4:40:40 AM EDT

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Once you realize that we live in Bizarro World and that everything he says is 100% wrong, things make more sense.

Posted: 4/27/2014 4:56:28 AM EDT

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I think Cindi Lauper said it.....

Posted: 4/27/2014 5:04:35 AM EDT

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Yes, because Muslims always contribute so much to society.

Posted: 4/27/2014 5:08:59 AM EDT

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Jug ears needs to shut the fuck up.

Posted: 4/27/2014 5:15:19 AM EDT

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Because Burma was just so nice and peaceful before.

Posted: 4/27/2014 5:15:52 AM EDT

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I'm sure there are Christians living in the ME that feel oppressed and could use some help.

Posted: 4/27/2014 5:25:42 AM EDT

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"Egypt can succeed without the Coptic christians though.

My exact thoughts...I was getting ready to say the same thing..

The hypocrisy of this president...

Posted: 4/27/2014 5:26:22 AM EDT

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Is Mr. "opposite of reality" speaking again?

Posted: 4/27/2014 5:30:19 AM EDT

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Western Civilization will not succeed unless Islam is suppressed, per Sir Winston Churchill:

'How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

'Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die. But the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytising faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science - the science against which it had vainly struggled - the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.'

Posted: 4/27/2014 5:39:53 AM EDT

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Fuck Myanmar
Fuck Islam
Fuck Barack Hussein Obama

Posted: 4/27/2014 5:50:56 AM EDT

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U.S. President Barack Obama ... warned...

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"Warned" what - that he would hold his breath until he turned blue?

That he would go play golf or take another vacation?

Or would he "make something clear"?

Posted: 4/27/2014 5:58:57 AM EDT

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Posted: 4/27/2014 6:10:59 AM EDT

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Obama can be King of Myanmar

Posted: 4/27/2014 7:01:56 AM EDT

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Why do we give a shit about their right? Do they not have enough rights here to trample on that they have to go looking for rights in other countries?

Posted: 4/27/2014 8:27:09 AM EDT

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They're like progressives, they live on a much higher moral plane. That's why they get along so well against the common hoi polloi of reactionary thought.

Posted: 4/27/2014 8:45:08 AM EDT

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Yes, because Muslims always contribute so much to society.

They're like progressives, they live on a much higher moral plane. That's why they get along so well against the common hoi polloi of reactionary thought.

The progressives empathize with them and their "Struggles".