Publication: REe faces of the Rohingya crisis: Religious nationalism, Asian Islamophobia, and delegitimizing citizenship
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2018-01-01
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02150492
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Studia Islamika. Vol.25, No.3 (2018), 503-542
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Imtiyaz Yusuf REe faces of the Rohingya crisis: Religious nationalism, Asian Islamophobia, and delegitimizing citizenship. Studia Islamika. Vol.25, No.3 (2018), 503-542. doi:10.15408/sdi.v25i3.8038 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/44937
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REe faces of the Rohingya crisis: Religious nationalism, Asian Islamophobia, and delegitimizing citizenship
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© 2018 Gedung Pusat Pengkajian Islam dan Masyarakat (PPIM) UIN Jakarta. All rights reserved. Myanmar is a non-secular Buddhist majority country born out of the ashes of the murder of their leader of independence struggle, General Aung San, was assassinated on July 19, 1947, a few months before the independence of Burma on January 4, 1948. His failed legacy in integrating Myanmar into a multicultural nation which contains of Burmans as ethnic majority and non-Burman minorities continues to obsess Myanmar’s people. e Rohingya crisis is not a religious conict between Islam and Buddhism because both of them have a long-shared history of peaceful coexistence. Furthermore, it is also not only a case of Buddhist persecution against Muslims as recognized by the Rohingyan nationalists. Actually, it is a clash between two views of nationalism over the claim to Myanmar citizenship. e conict invokes Buddhist and Muslim nationalist in order to protect and preserve national ethnicities as religious identities in turn causing the rise of the new phenomena of Asian Islamophobia.