What Is It With Muslims?

I don’t know what to call it…

I have a friend, a Thai Buddhist, whose family is quite well-off. His family has been running a charity of sorts on their private land. They have a primary (elementary) school that they privately fund, for unfortunate children.

Okay…nothing new there. However, they also run a madrasah (well, madrasah is school in Arabic) for Muslim children. Muslims in Thailand are generally of Malay descent. So on top of the normal Thai education curriculum, these children also get their religious education. They also employ tutors from Malaysia to teach Bahasa Melayu and the English Language to these children to prepare them better for the outside world.

While I related this story to my colleague, he told me that he is not surprised. In Myanmar, Myanmarese Buddhists do the same for not just Muslim children, but children of other religious beliefs as well.

So I don’t know what to call myself, and other Muslims. Teletophobic? Homilophobic? Xenophobic? Bogyphobic? Staurophobic? Trophophobic?

You tell me.