Muslims in Cambodia admitted free to worship and build mosques in their neighborhoods


Muslims in Cambodia admitted free to worship and build mosques in their neighborhoods


Muslims in Cambodia admitted free to worship and build mosques in their neighborhoods, women can wear headscarves in schools.
El Boravy Cambodians graduated from Faculty of Medicine said school students were allowed to use the veil since a few years ago.
"The government gives us the right to run their own beliefs, now school children are able to use the hijab in schools, first 'do not," said El Boravy belonging to ethnic Cham.
Since the last two years, Prime Minister Hun Sen held a breaking fast with Muslims in Ramadan, and inaugurate the mosque.

Sos Kamry been arrested and forced to work by the Pol Pot regime.
This condition is very much different during the Pol Pot regime that led the Communist Party of Kampuchea. When the religious communities in this country should not be conducting worship.
Places of worship were destroyed, including temples and mosques.
Even partially used as pigsties, while Muslims were forced to eat pork.
Director General of the Supreme Council Chief Mufti of Muslims of Cambodia or Cambodian Sos Kamry, who was 25 years old, admitted was arrested and forced to follow the will of the followers of Pol Pot.
"We eat meat cats, dogs and pigs, ya eat like that, sometimes not fed, sometimes have to eat so as not hungry only, mosques and temples and statues and schools destroyed, scriptures burned," said SOS Kamry to BBC Indonesia, Sri Lestari.

Millions of people have died in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge, including ethnic and religious minorities.
At that time, an estimated 95 thousand Muslims were executed, hunger and disease, from a population of Muslims, which reached 250 thousand people.
According to SOS Kamry, she was released in 1979 at the end of the Pol Pot regime that defeated the invasion of Vietnam to Cambodia.
After the Khmer Rouge regime ended, Muslims in Cambodia are free to practice slowly. Mosques rebuilt with the aid of the Islamic countries.
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El Boravy Muslims in Cambodia is hard to find halal food.
According to El Boravy difficulties encountered as a Muslim in Cambodia together with Muslim minorities in other countries, which is not easy to find halal food.
"Here the food is not free as in Indonesia, in restaurants and hotels not all kosher food, so hard. Usually we prepare from home, such as a child to take to school," he explained.
But in the capital there are many shops that sell halal food, especially in areas inhabited by many Muslims, such as the city seven kilometers from Phnom Penh.

7 Km Ramadan market in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
In this area too, there is a market which sells snacks Ramadan iftar, such as sugar cane ice, ice with similar kolang forth fruit and banana compote ala Cambodia.
Muslims in Cambodia amounted to about 500 thousand people, out of a total population of 15 million inhabitants.
Most of them ethnic Cham, who is a descendant of the citizens of the Kingdom of Champa.
When the Kingdom of Champa was conquered by Vietnam, the ethnic Cham escaped to Cambodia, southern Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia and the Aceh and Indonesia.

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