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Stop Hate Crime - AHRC

  AHRC: The Mass Shootings Phenomenon Requires Vigilance, Collaboration, and a National Conversation The American Human Rights Council (AHRC USA) joins the nation in profound grief over the victims of the May 18, 2026, mass shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego—another senseless act of hate and violence. This attack comes as Muslim Americans and Muslims worldwide prepare for Eid Al Adha on May 27, during the holiest ten days of the Islamic lunar calendar, deepening the community’s pain. AHRC extends its deepest condolences to the families and friends of those who lost their lives and wishes a full and speedy recovery to all who were injured. Mass shootings and domestic terror attacks have become increasingly frequent. These tragedies remind us that hate and violence are blind to identity—both in those who commit them and the communities they target. No place is immune. The toxic climate of political rhetoric, demonization, racism, and hate directed at Muslims in America creat...
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Message from Maung Zarni on Rohingya crisis

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  Dear Friends, I have long characterized my native country's genocide as a produce of the triangular ethnic politics: 1) local Rakhine Buddhists who had long outnumbered 2) Muslim Rohingyas at the ratio of 3:1  whom they frame as a threat to their idenity and whose ancestral land they want, without Rohingya on it, and 3) the central Burmese Buddhist politicians and generals who exploit this horizontal division in a state that was annexed into the central Buddhist kingdom only around 1794,  several years after the French Revolution.  Rohingyas' identity as a distinct border-land ethnic group, their historical presence and their post-independence Burma official recognition as a people indigenous to Western Myanmar next to Bangladesh is solid.   But both the majoritarian Buddhist of Bama ethnicity led by Aung San Suu Kyi and successive military junta have relently attacked this unwanted Muslim group, on their own ancestral land. The giant India next door has ...
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