How much “religious harmony,” “tolerance,” and “diversity” exist in Muslim countries? Yet unbelievers are readily willing to host such dialogues with Islamic leaders in their own non-Muslim countries, despite the established expansionist ambitions of Islam. Cambodia is 93% Buddhist, but it is becoming increasingly Islamized. Any dialogue with sharia-adherent Muslim leaders ends up benefiting the latter, since the sharia is rooted in conquest. First comes an offer of dialogue, followed by the “Islamophobia” subterfuge. Then comes making it an offense to insult Muslim sensibilities — ironically in the name of “diversity,” and then come even more demands in the name of diversity.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet has stated:
No religion teaches people to commit sins. All religions guide their followers toward morality, virtue, compassion, honesty, and kindness to humanity and all life on earth.
Manet clearly didn’t read the Qur’an or the Hadith, or pay attention to the state of religious freedoms in Muslim countries. As is common, he is naively influenced by taqiyya.
Already in Cambodia, the country is gradually becoming Islamized, with its small rural Cham Muslim sect community being overtaken by foreign Islamic influences. This sect are “followers of the Kan Imam San order” and are generally quiet. Foreign influences aim to subvert this sect, not to mention the rest of Cambodia, via conversions to Sunni Islam.
Sunni Muslims receive substantial aid from the global Muslim community, particularly from Malaysia, Indonesia, and Kuwait.
This has led to the gradual proliferation of Sunni Islam, with “far grander mosques and schools built in Arabic style for the Sunni community by Muslim countries.”
An Indonesian Embassy official also talked about foreign scholarships “for Muslim students if they are related to religious studies…offered by Malaysia, Kuwait, and Qatar, but far fewer benefits are extended to the Kan Imam San community.”
Cambodia is now moving along a path to Islamization, as foreign Islamic influences are overwhelming it.
“Cambodia Hosts Inaugural Islam-Buddhism Summit to Foster Religious Harmony,” by Justin Whitaker, Buddhistdoor Global, March 6, 2025:
Cambodia hosted its first interfaith summit on Islam and Buddhism on 27 February, marking a significant step in promoting religious and ethnic harmony in the predominantly Buddhist nation. The event, organized by the Muslim World League, brought together 180 delegates from more than 30 countries.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet inaugurated the summit, emphasizing the importance of “solidarity and religious harmony in Cambodia.” The event underscored the nation’s commitment to interfaith dialogue and coexistence.
The prime minister reaffirmed Buddhism’s place as the state religion, while praising Cambodia’s progress in promoting good religious relations and peace. “Every religion guides its followers toward morality, compassion, and kindness,” Manet emphasized, recalling the good historical relations between Khmer kings and the Khmer Muslim community.
In particular, Manet noted the creation of the Halal Institution in 2016 to ensure that foods in Cambodia met the dietary standards of the Muslim community.
While Buddhism is the dominant religion in Cambodia, with approximately 93 per cent of the country’s 17.5 million people identifying as Buddhist, Islam is the second-largest religion. The country’s Muslim population, primarily ethnic Cham followers of the Kan Imam San order, constitutes about five per cent of the population. Catholics make up approximately 0.5 per cent.
Senior Minister Othsman Hassan, who oversees Cambodian Islamic Affairs and is a member of the Supreme Council of the Muslim World League, described the summit as a milestone in Cambodia’s religious progress….
Billy says
Islam is totalitarian, and there is NO harmony with Non-Muslims, only discrimination, violence, and terrorism against Non-Muslims, as taught in Islam’s Quran.
Islam, a Terrorist Criminal Enterprise, and its Muslims continually fund, promote, and practice ideological subversion, propaganda, bigotry, discrimination, deceit, supremacy, segregation, hatred, violence, and terrorism as taught in Islamic Law and in Islam’s Quran, and Muslim actions should be legally challenged with a multi-faceted force of Western Laws like Muslims wield against Americans and Westerners(Quran 9:5,29 and more).
Like a Foreign Terrorist Organization(FTO) designated by the USA Secretary of State, Islam is a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION(MTO) fighting against Non-Muslims and NOT A PEACEFUL religion under Western Law because Islam funds, teaches, and promotes a Terrorist Criminal Organization with Muslims as Terrorists for Allah(Quran 9:5,29; 49:15 and more). Under Islam and Islamic Law, Muslims have the legal right to terrorize Non-Muslims because neglecting this DIVINE DUTY is a Crime against Allah; Jihad means warfare against Non-Muslims to ESTABLISH ISLAM’S RELIGION(Quran 3:151; 9:29; Muslim Law Manual – “Reliance of the Traveller”, o9.0 and more). More specifically, Islam, a terroristic way of life, is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Murderous, Criminal Enterprise of intolerance, continuous war, discrimination, segregation, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, propaganda, deceit, hatred, incitement, sedition, rape, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran(Quran 2:216; 4:65,89,95; 5:14,64; 8:12,39,74; 9:5,21,29,36, 41,49,88,111,123; 21:92; 49:15 and more).
somehistory says
” “Every religion guides its followers toward morality, compassion, and kindness,” ”
How very ignorant. From the beginning of man making all of his own decisions, there have been religions which produced nothing but evil, injury, pain, death and destruction. The Canaanites sacrificed their babies to the fires of moloch/molech in worship of their false god. ba’al worshippers murdered those who didn’t follow their false god, as did those who worshipped dagan, the fish god. And the Aztecs sacrificed humans and drank their life’s blood.
mozlums do the same. They worship evil, work to cause pain, injury, death and destruction and sacrifice their children to spread the filth of islime.
These Buddhists are giving their country over to the mozlums.
gravenimage says
All too true, Somehistory.
Rooster says
This is more than ignorance, its stupidity. Only one cure for stupid and Islam will certainly share it to the Buddhist.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Why does islam have to be given any attention even in countries like Cambodia where muslims are barely 2% of the population, and not even big in numbers (~200k nationwide)? They should instead just look at similar Theravada Buddhist countries like Burma and Sri Lanka, and keep those muslims squelched
Hank says
+10
Barry Morgan says
You tolerate Islam at your own peril!!
Anonymous says
On one side we have Buddhism which preaches tolerance, calmness and focus and on other side we have a religion which preaches hate and bigotry on the name of God, blasting airplanes, buses, cars and everything which comes on the way. Also murdering and butchering people who don’t share the same faith. Will these 2 religion co-exist together ? A clear NO.
Kepha says
Buddhism can also get nasty. In Sinitic Asia, I took the Lord’s Supper with people whose spiritual (and sometimes familial) forebears were attacked and even murdered by the Boxers (who believed that chanting sutras and Shaolin martial arts exercises would protect them from bullets). While I get the concerns of the Myanmar people and government with their population of 55 millions being overwhelmed by the 173 millions of Bangladesh (the Rohingya being Bengali migrants), the same government of Myanmar has been very nasty to Christians, which is a part of the story of Chin, Kachin, and Karen separatism. Look at how Buddhist Sinhalese treat Hindu Tamils in Sri Lanka. While Thailand has generally been decent to its minorities, I’ve seen something of how on street and individual levels, people can get nasty.
All of us are by nature children of Adam the First, whose disobedience won for us God’s wrath and curse.
James Lincoln says
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet needs to spend some time on Jihad Watch.
OLD GUY says
ISLAM WILL TAKE ADVANTAGE OF EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO GAIN A FOOTHOLD AND DOMINATE OTHER RELIGIONS AND PEOPLE.
Armed Kafir says
Cambodia should repeat what Myanmar did with its moslems before its too late
gravenimage says
Cambodia: First Islam-Buddhism summit held to foster ‘religious harmony’
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet has stated:
No religion teaches people to commit sins. All religions guide their followers toward morality, virtue, compassion, honesty, and kindness to humanity and all life on earth.
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Another foolish dhimmi. Never mind that Islam considers oppressing and murdering Infidels–including Buddhists–to be moral.
Cambodia is less then 3% Muslim right now–but that can change.