It was such a honor to moderate the closing session of this year’s United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Dialogue which was held virtually between Geneva and Washington, DC. UNHCR is the UN agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or […]
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Since August 25th, over 400,000 Rohingya people, a Muslim minority group ethnic to Myanmar, have literally been pouring into Bangladesh, causing a humanitarian crisis amongst one of the most persecuted groups in the world. And the number of people fleeing the recent violence and persecution are not going to stop anytime soon. I went on CNN
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*This post of mine is also published on CNN.* Amnesty describes it as “collective punishment.” A senior UN official suggested the goal appears to be “ethnic cleansing.” Regardless of how it is described, it is clear the violence unleashed by Myanmar against its minority Rohingya Muslim population has been devastating. John McKissick, with the Office
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The world mourns what happened in Paris last week, but most Muslims around the world immediately had to go into defense-mode as both backlash and rhetoric against us intensified in the aftermath of the devastating attacks in France. American political candidates are not helping the situation by exploiting the Paris attacks for their own political
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