A Sydney Muslim sheikh has suggested a female Nobel Peace Prize winner is a bigger terrorist than ISIS.
Aung San Suu Kyi spent almost two decades under house arrest before becoming Myanmar’s de facto leader last year.
However, Islamist groups worldwide are campaigning against the former political prisoner and democracy campaigner as ethnic Rohingyas, who are mainly Muslim, flee Myanmar for neighbouring Bangladesh.
One Sydney sheikh says Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi is worse than ISIS
Muslim sheikh Bilal Dannoun told his 626,000 Facebook followers Myanmar is worse than ISIS
Almost 125,000 of these stateless people have fled via northern Myanmar since the military began a brutal crackdown on Rohinya militants almost two weeks ago.
Sydney Muslim sheikh Bilal Dannoun has described the violence against the Rohingyas as a bigger atrocity than ISIS.
‘The massacres of ISIS are far less than that of the Myanmars towards the Muslims,’ he told his 626,000 Facebook followers.
The 43-year-old Islamic lecturer and marriage celebrant even suggested Australia should be more concerned about Myanmar, also known as Burma, than Islamic State.
Muslim leaders around the world say violence against Rohingyas (pictured fleeing into Bangladesh) is worse than ISIS atrocities
This influential Sydney Muslim says ISIS is less of a threat than an Asian nation led by a woman
Bilal Dannoun says ISIS atrocities (fighter pictured at Mosul in northern Iraq) were less severe than Myanmar’s violence against Rohingyas
‘Should not governments campaigning against these terrorists be greater than the campaigns against ISIS?’ he asked.
The Australian Defence Force has launched airstrikes on Syria and northern Iraq since 2014 when US-led forces started taking on ISIS.
When it comes to Myanmar, Australia began to relax trade restrictions with the south-east Asian nation in 2013 as the military junta took steps to improve its poor human rights record.
However, Ms Suu Kyi has become defensive when asked about state-sponsored violence against the Rohingyas.
Former political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi says she knows about going without human rights
She told Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday she knew what it was like to be under house arrest for almost two decades, after her National League for Democracy won a landslide election victory in 1990.
‘We know very well, more than most, what it means to be deprived of human rights and democratic protection,’ she said.
‘So we make sure that all the people in our country are entitled to protection of their rights as well as the right to, and not just political, but social and humanitarian defence.’
However, she continues to deny the stateless Rohingyas citizenship in Myanmar.