The Rohingya are the most persecuted minority in the world; and they represent the Ummah in miniature. They are being persecuted and oppressed primarily for economic reasons; reasons of class interest and to maintain the existing power structure; and that is exactly what the Muslims globally are facing. We are being scapegoated, targeted, maligned, and marginalised, under the pretext of religion.
Religious animosities are being incited and mobilised to divert the hostility of the masses away from the elites who are exploiting them; pushing us to hate and savage each other to prevent us all from any possibility of solidarity and united action to liberate ourselves (Muslim and non-Muslim) from the parasitic global owners of capital.
That is why we say “We Are All Rohingya Now”. Muslim and non-Muslim. We need to align ourselves with the persecuted, because we are them, and they are us. Whether it is the genocidal government of Myanmar, the extremist Buddhist monks, the White supremacists, the Far Right, or whether it is the Muslim radicals and militants; whoever is promoting the divisive narrative of religious conflict and hatred between any segments of the oppressed masses; They are the enemies of the liberation of the poor. We need to disassociate ourselves from them, and reach out to the group from whom they are trying to estrange us.