Historic Conference in Milwaukee for the rights of Rohingya Muslims in Burma.

Historic Conference in Milwaukee for the rights of Rohingya Muslims in Burma.
200 People Drove in 10 degrees Weather to join the Networking for Muslim Minorities

December 14, 2013: University of Wisconsin, Milewaukee:

Rohingya Muslims have suffered for decades at the hands of Buddhist mobs in Burma since the 1970s if not earlier. America's Muslims have not cared for them, This was the first conference ever held to support the Rohingyas. It was historic in the sense that it brought together top level activists, analysts and scholars researching the genocide of Rohingya Muslims from across the US and Canada.

The conference became possible, owing to the efforts of Prof. Suleyman Kurter, his wife Hawa Kurter and his illustrious sons Salahattin and Imran. As the people poured into the auditorium, though it was bone chilling cold even in the parking lots, it became clear that here were people thirsting for knowledge of the supressed Rohingya Muslims.

There are 70 Rohingya Muslim families in Milwaukee and most of them were there. A major breakthrough was the arrival of Burmese Muslims living in Indiana who have realized that after the destruction of Rohingya Muslims, the Buddhist government and mobs incited by Buddhist monks are now howling for the blood of ALL Muslims in Burma.

For eight hours the program went on with a long line of speakers outlining the shocking atrocities committed by the Burmese Buddhists in the form of rape, murder, mutilation, looting, arson, terrorism and the ethnic cleansing of an entire people.
Some of the eminent speakers were: [Incomplete list.]

Dr. Abid Bahar, Dawson College, Montreal, Canada.

Dr. Habib Siddiqui, a human rights activist from Canada.
Nurul Islam, Arakan Rohingya National Organization, President. [All the eway from London, England]

Anwar Shah Arkani, President of tye Rohingya Association of Canada.

Dr. Kaukab Siddique, Chairperson [interim], Department of Languages & Literature, lincoln University, Pennsylvania.
Sheikh Ziad Hamdan, Imam of the Islamic society of Milwaukee.

Mohiuddin Yusof, President Rohingya Concern International, [New York]

U King Maung, non-Rohingya Burmese Muslim, spoke at length in Burmese and was translated in English.

Among non-Muslims there were two prominent names:

Dr. Nora Rowley [Human Rights Advocate for Burma]

Barry Parkinson [Initiative on Quiet Diplomacy]

Introduction and declaration of the conference were made by an African American brother Ronald Hendree from the Risale Center of America, which publicizes the teachings of Shaykh Badiuzzaman of Turkish resurgence of Islam.

The MC, very capable and eloquent, was Imran Kurter. Certificates of merit were given to main speakers by Shaukat Aung, the chair of the conference organizing committee.

Some of the speakers blasted the secularist regime in Bangladesh which is supporting non-Muslim Burmese but is blocking the Rohingya Muslims in the most brutal process of rejection.