U.S. has invited Myanmar military in Cobra Gold, the world’s largest multinational military field exercise between US and Thailand, which is scheduled to be held in February, 2018, after terming Myanmar’s military cracked down on Muslim Rohingya from Rakhine state as ‘ethnic cleansing’. (Source: Reuters, 24/12/2017)

Comment:

The joint exercise is viewed as US’s strong goodwill gesture to Myanmar and a milestone in its rapprochement with the West. The truth is that US has a historical tie with Myanmar military. “Even when it was a dictatorship, Myanmar sent more officers to the United States than to any other country,” according to Maung Aung Myoe, author of “Building the Tatmadaw: Myanmar Armed Forces since 1948”. (Source: Bdnews24.com). The deceiving role of US in Muslim countries is further revealed in its invitation to Myanmar military, the butcher of thousands of Muslim, to participate in the Cobra Gold exercise. US needs to have strong control over the military dominated politics of Myanmar, due to Myanmar’s geopolitical and economic significance, and to contain the influence of China in the region, and to loot the vast untapped resources of the country. Additionally, keeping stronghold over Myanmar is imperative to contain the rise of political Islam in the region, particularly Bangladesh. Therefore, it is inconceivable that US will place the interest of Muslims over its economic and geopolitical interests. All the castigations of and banning on Myanmar are hollow rhetoric designed only to deceive the Muslims. And, the so-called leaders of Muslim countries including Bangladesh only implement the evil design of their Western Masters as dutiful servants.

Only the imminent second righteous Khilafah (Caliphate) will take care of the affair of the Ummah and will free it from the oppressive clutches of the evil colonial forces and their appointed local filthy servants. The true salvation for the Muslims of Rohingya will only take place when the Khilafah will return and repel the tyrant Myanmar military from the land. Rasoolullah ﷺ said:  «وَإِنَّمَا الْإِمَامُ جُنَّةٌ يُقَاتَلُ مِنْ وَرَائِهِ وَيُتَّقَى بِه»“Only the Imam is a shield, behind whom you fight and you protect yourself with…” (Muslim). It is high time to forge together and stand against this toxic kufr democratic system and replace it with the justice of the Islamic Khilafah.

Mustafa Mahmud

Member of the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Bangladesh