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Using Rohingyas, Dr M paints warning of weak Muslims

By The Malay MailOnline September 20, 2013 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 20 — Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad raised the plight of the Rohingyas in Myanmar as a cautionary tale for Muslims in Malaysia yesterday, at a time when Umno is again reaching out to PAS ostensibly for the sake of Islamic unity. In a posting titled “The Rohingyas” on his blog, the former prime minister said the troubles of the ethnic minority were not unique but representative of the predicament facing Islamic nations the world over. “Almost all Muslim countries and people are in trouble today. The latest are the Rohingyas of Myanmar,” he wrote in his latest blog entry.  “They are being forced to leave their own homes and country, to flee in leaky boats, overloaded and prone to being wrecked and they would be drowned (sic). All countries refuse to help these unfortunate creatures and they and their leaky boats get pushed back into the sea.” Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanma...