I don't know much. In most cases Muslim countries taking in Muslim refugees is ignored in the media. For instance, there are over 1,000,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, which is a far smaller country than India, yet India is going wild about the mere 40,000 Rohingya refugees they have. Pakistan has 400,000 Rohingya refugees, even though they have to travel across 3 countries to get there. Malaysia has maybe 150,000 Rohingya refugees even though it's on the wrong side of Burma.@Rhakim do you know how the Rohingya became so marginalized and ostracized by other Muslim states in the region? What gets me is that in the last few hundred years in India/Burma they would’ve been spread throughout(what are now 3/4 countries?)the region and had some wealth/community collectively and they’ve ended up practically friendless and impoverished.
My assumption is that in Bangladesh it is a typical mass refugee issue - the Rohingya people are very poor, differ culturally, and Bangladesh is already one of the most crowded countries on Earth. So the people resist adding more bodies even if they're Muslim. They're trying to figure out how they can get rid of them but there isn't a clear path.
In other countries they're more seen as random refugees - there aren't quite as many of them and those nations don't have as much population pressure so the urgency isn't there, but they still have a different ethnic and language background than the nationals, are definitely at the bottom of the ladder socially, and don't necessarily have a path to citizenship.
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