Nationalist Ethnicities as Religious Identities

For centuries, the Rohingya have been living within the borders of the country established in 1948 as Burma/Myanmar. Today left stateless, having been gradually stripped of their citizenship rights, they are described by the United Nations as one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. In o...

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Autor principal:	Imtiyaz Yusuf
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Publicado:	International Institute of Islamic Thought 2017
Materias:	Islam BP1-253
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:f526cdda181b4be8a41b4fd9c8043a802021-12-02T19:41:32ZNationalist Ethnicities as Religious Identities10.35632/ajis.v34i4.8082690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/f526cdda181b4be8a41b4fd9c8043a802017-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/808https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741 For centuries, the Rohingya have been living within the borders of the country established in 1948 as Burma/Myanmar. Today left stateless, having been gradually stripped of their citizenship rights, they are described by the United Nations as one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. In order to understand the complexity of this conflict, one must consider how Burma is politically transitioning from military to democratic rule, a process that is open (much as was Afghanistan) to competition for resources by international and regional players such as the United States, China, India, Israel, Japan, and Australia.1 To be fair, the record of Southeast Asian Muslim countries with Buddhist minorities is also not outstanding. Buddhist minorities identified as ethnic groups have faced great discrimination in, among others, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei ... Imtiyaz YusufInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticleIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 34, Iss 4 (2017)
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description	For centuries, the Rohingya have been living within the borders of the country established in 1948 as Burma/Myanmar. Today left stateless, having been gradually stripped of their citizenship rights, they are described by the United Nations as one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. In order to understand the complexity of this conflict, one must consider how Burma is politically transitioning from military to democratic rule, a process that is open (much as was Afghanistan) to competition for resources by international and regional players such as the United States, China, India, Israel, Japan, and Australia.1 To be fair, the record of Southeast Asian Muslim countries with Buddhist minorities is also not outstanding. Buddhist minorities identified as ethnic groups have faced great discrimination in, among others, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei ...
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