Historical Investigation to the Problems and Challenges of Muslims in Papua New Guinea
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2016-03
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International Journal of Culture and History,
Abstract
—It is not difficult to see why Muslims who live as a
minority innon-Muslimcountries like Papua New Guinea are
seen as a problem and threat.These are partly due to political
and historical factors, partly due to the press media, which
have unjustly confirmed for many that Muslims are violent,
prone to anarchy. Mostnon-Muslimcountries like Papua New
Guinea in which Muslims live have an image of themselves as
plural, secular, modern and tolerant societies. Muslims
somehow challenge such an image; they provoke the worst
aspect of the state hence, instead of solving the problems of the
Muslims in a manner that would be mutually beneficial, the
state tends to ignore or minimize them. The examples of Papua
New Guinean minority Muslims are like that of former state of
Yugoslavia where the Serbs went one step further with Muslim
minority. They systematically terrorized them and sent them
from their homes, the world called it ethnic cleansing and did
nothing.Bosnia was added to the list of recent Muslim losses.
Can the same fate happen in Papua New Guinea? What
offends Muslims living in a country as the minority community?
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—Papua new guinea, Muslims, community, historical.