The Muslim Rohingya people of Myamar/Burma have been much in the news lately with stories coming out of Thailand that hundreds are feared dead or lost at sea due to actions take by the Thai military.

The Rohingya are believed to descend from seventh century Arab settlers whose state was conquered by the Burmese in 1784. The group has inhabited what is now western Myanmar for centuries.

So I was taking my usual umbrage at the persecution of Muslim minorities by non-Muslims, then I came across this charming blog entry from 2007 by a Malaysian Muslim academic, the “protem President of the Muslim Bloggers Alliance:”

We don’t need these parasites. Send them home or drop them off at the borders. Enough is enough. We have been lenient with them far too long! No other Asian country lets them in knowing their problematic tendencies. Why should Malaysia be the dumping ground of Asia?

Pack them off to Myanmar or ask the United Nations to send them off to those countries who always make a fuss of human rights these and that! We sure do not need these kind. No more!

In the comments somebody challenges him for writing this and then talking about “Muslim brotherhood.” He responds:

Do not live with a blinkered view that when I defend Islam and Muslims, I do so without taking into consideration what type of ‘Muslims’ are worth defending.

Muslims who are superficial ‘Muslims’ aren’t included in my defend list.

As best I can gather, what makes them superficial Muslims is that they beg in front of the mosque and create an “eyesore.” I guess we Muslims have our own “Gospel of Wealth” that blames the less fortunate for their misery and indicts poor Muslims for their poverty.