By Halima Akter, The Orient News Bangladesh

In the twenty-first century, Muslims are mainly being persecuted, oppressed, discriminated and brutally killed around the world. The Muslim monitories groups suffered a lot in Rohingya Myanmar, Palestinians, China and in Indian occupied Kashmir(IOK).

There are many people of various religions in this world. Now all of them expect from Muslims that they should not react of it which is quite unnatural. Currently there is hardly any non-Muslims community who suffered as refugees or stateless persons. The Muslims are always subjected to all kinds of oppression and discrimination due to their religious identity. Recently, Emanual Macron, the President of France, gave a wrong and bais statement by saying that Islam is in crisis. The only reason for the maltreatment of Muslims is that they are Muslims and Islam is their religious.

Rohingyas are now stateless people lived in Rakhine State in Myanmar. The Muslim minority community from the majority Buddhist Myanmar faced the terrible reality of their life. Since the tenure of King Bayinnaung (1550-1589), the king first started oppression on the Rohingya people due to their religion. At that time the question was arose to sacrifice cattle in the Muslims' religious occasion Eid al-Adha which the king prohibited for Muslims to observe the Eid al-Adha. Similarly, King Alaungpaya was forbidden to eat Halal food. After these, the Rohingya   Muslim community faced a military crackdown in 1978, 1991-1992, 2012, 2015, 2016-2017. Mostly, in 1982 the Myanmar government abolished their citizenship under the 1982 Myanmar nationality law.

Their freedom of movement was also restricted. They are deprived from all kinds of basic human needs. In 2017 Rohingya genocide was a heart-wrenching occurrence. Now about 1.1 million Rohingya are living in Bangladesh. They have fled from Myanmar due to facing hostilities and genocide there. Rohingyas' women and children were gage-raped by the Myanmar armed forces. They saw their burning house, corps, killing relatives in front of their eyes. These terrible and   horrible situations made the majority of them mentally trauma. Even in 2013 the United Nations portrayed the Rohingya people as one of the persecuted and oppressed minorities in the world.

The Palestinian people were being persecuted by Israeli since 1948 when Jews on the behest of   new Israeli government established their settlements in Palestine. Notably, the Jews had no homeland at that time. After the persecution of Jews in Europe during the Second World War. They fled to Palestine and started to live here and claimed the land was theirs. Now Palestine inhabited by Muslim people is fighting for their land. But they are facing suppression, oppression by Israel government. The Jews and Palestinian Arabs both claimed the same land as their homeland and then the bloody conflict arose from the expelling of the Palestinians from their land. A couple of wars occurred between Arabs and Israel such as the first Arab-Israel war in 1948, the second Arab-Israel war in 1956, the 1967 Arab-Israel war, 1973 Arab-Israel war. After all these developments. Despite these wars the Arab world could not be able to halt Israel to annex the territory from Palestine. Contrary of it, Egypt and Jordan signed peace treaties with Israel in 1979 and 1994 respectively. In 2020, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain also signed the normalization agreement with Israel. Besides, Israel has been recognized internationally by 162 countries out of 192 UN member states. At presently, the situation of Palestinian people's is   highly miserable and Israel occupied most of the Gaza and West Bank from Palestine. So, millions of Palestinians are living as refugees and they are being continuously threatened to vacate their home land. Besides it. Israel's committed severe human rights violations of Palestinians using tactics of oppression and suppression including killing, rape on daily routine.

The Uyghurs, the largest minority Muslim population of China's autonomous Xinjiang region, are another vulnerable Muslim community in China. The Chinese government has put restrictions on the Uyghurs' religious and cultural practices and wants to erase their religious beliefs and cultural identity. This community is under the surveillance of the Chinese government in the concentrations named re-education. There is a restriction to access this concentration from outside. This community is forced to learn Mandarin Chinese and undergo biometric tests. Besides, women of this community are victims more and they are raped by the Chinese armed forces. The Chinese government's only the excuse of a threat from separatist Islamist groups in the Uyghurs community which is the reflection of this inhuman persecution of the Uyghurs' people.

The Muslim community in France is being subjugated to the persecution of the France government. The France government is as usual maintaining its secularism policy particularly on this issue, there is a little mosque in France and there is no freedom for Muslim women to wear hijab which is known as 'Pardha' in the Islamic religion. Besides, the France government displayed the caricature of Prophet Mohammad (SAW) on the government buildings in the name of freedom of expression. At this point, the world become silent spectators.

The history of oppression in Kashmir is quite long. Jammu and Kashmir have been under Indian rule and occupation since 1947. The Kashmiri people always have been oppressed by Indians. Recently India repealed article 370 from the constitution related to get special benefits for Kashmiri. Then the Kashmiri people showed their dissatisfaction towards the Indian government and they outset a movement for their rights. As a result, the Indian government reacted to confine them in their house and all types of virtual connections had been stopped. This miserable condition of the Kashmiri people is heart-touching for any humanity. The world is silent and international organization didn't do anything for the Kashmiri people.

 Above all it is not enough to represent the persecution of Muslims across the world, unless it is resolved. In this whole scenario it is too terrible to express it in a little description.  Now question arise in one mind with a sigh, that whether it is a crime to be a Muslim? What would be the end of such an ugly situation? Nobody have answer of this except Allah Almighty. Muslims of the world should work together in order to end the tear of the Muslim community.