Thank you for all interesting and constructive comments.

For a comment on representing international community, I have never claimed represent it but I 'suggest' the community to take action.

There are many ways to support people who need help. And it is important t to think humanitarian in this circumstance.

I also agree with a few comments that poverty plays a part in this problem.

Loudmouth finding he can't defend his ideas, instantly descends into personal abuse, ho hum.

Do you deny that Muslims by definition consider the supreme moral example to be a man who committed armed robbery, mass murder, slavery, rape and paedophilia?

If you do, it's you who are being pig-ignorant and idiotic.

And if you don't, then you've established no reason for your argument. If they would not be "in a good position" in Bangladesh, and Saudi Arabia wouldn't let them in, then you have provided no reason why they should be in any better position, or let in, anywhere else.

Saying they're "Burmese" is only begging the question. Not according to the Burmese they're not. You're just chasing your tail.

"the core issues that have created the problem for the Rohingya"

The core issue is that the Myanmar people and government don't want them and the people in Australia who CLAIM to be concerned about it, are not willing to pay for them voluntarily. All you do is keep hiding behind this fake "we", but won't answer who that is.

So let's settle it. Post proof that you have set up a trust account, and that you and the author have paid into it your own money to support the number that you say should be supported.

Nattavud
The flaw in your argument is your assumption that the government is more representative of the people, than the people are of themselves. The community is taking action - they're excluding the Rohingya because they don't want them.

Will you join Loudmouth in *voluntarily* paying the costs of what you advocate?

Hi JDJ,

It's always been a complicated world. Sorry.

Various kingdoms have ruled, back and forth, across that part of the world for centuries. From the Khmer kingdoms, Ayodhya, the various Burmese and Thai and Mughal kingdoms and fiefdoms. For the last fifty years, Burman, shan, Karen, Kachin, etc. on one side, Bangla on the other. The poor b@stards, the Rohingya, somewhere in the middle, working their fields and fishing their seas.

Easy pickings for some semi-fascist - or 'socialist' - power group to have a go at. Then along the commentariat comes.

LO ! They happen to be Muslim. Beauty ! Get stuck into them !

Ask yourself, JDJ: they have been there, where they are now, for many hundreds of years, and the Burmese government doesn't want them, at least, not there, now. They shouldn't be there, you suggest.

So where should they be ?