Esther Htusan

Anti-Muslim Protests Spoil The First Day Of School For Kindergartners In Houston

Protesters shouted at parents and children at Houston’s Arabic Immersion Magnet School on first day of class.

Esther Htusan
作者 Esther Htusan
Protesters outside the Houston ISD's Arabic Immersion Magnet School carry signs reading "Qatar out of my school" and "Everything I ever cared to know about Islam was taught to me by Muslims on 9-11-2001" on the first day of school, Monday, Aug. 24, 2015. |

A group of adult protesters likely spoiled the first day of class for 132 knee-high pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students at Texas’ Houston Independent School District (HISD) who were on their way to a new Arabic immersion program at their school. On Monday morning, about 30 adult protesters spread out around the school fence holding signs

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Murder, Torture And Political Prosecution By Extremist Buddhists Sparks Mass Exodus Of Myanmar’s Rohingya

Bouts of vicious violence, together with discriminatory government policies, have sent an estimated 100,000 Rohingya fleeing this Buddhist-majority nation by boat in the last two years, according to the Arakan Project, a human-rights group that monitors the Rohingya

Esther Htusan
作者 Esther Htusan
Myanmar Forced Exodus

SITTWE, Myanmar (AP) — The captain of the small fishing vessel has spent most of his life helping fellow Rohingya Muslims escape persecution and hatred in Myanmar, but now even he is worried about the panicked pace the exodus has taken in recent weeks. "Everyone is going now," Puton Nya said. "I'm afraid that soon, no one will be left." Bouts

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