{"id":43301,"date":"2017-07-07T19:44:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-08T01:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=43301"},"modified":"2017-07-07T19:47:07","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T01:47:07","slug":"persecution-muslims-myanmar-burma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/07\/persecution-muslims-myanmar-burma.html","title":{"rendered":"The Persecution of Muslims in Myanmar (or Burma)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43302\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43302\" style=\"width: 572px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/07\/Burma_Regions_Map.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43302\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-43302\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/07\/Burma_Regions_Map-572x1024.png\" alt=\"Burma or Myanmar\" width=\"572\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43302\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Formerly widely known as\u00a0Burma \u00a0\u00a0(Wikimedia Commons public domain image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A remark today by one of the speakers at a session of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iclrs.org\/content\/blurb\/files\/2017%20Annual%20Review%20Program%20Schedule-at-a-Glance_Final.pdf\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">2017 Religious Freedom Annual Review<\/a> of BYU\u2019s\u00a0International Center for Law and Religion Studies spurs me to bring a situation to your attention that receives very little news coverage in the United States, if indeed it receives any at all:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2016%E2%80%9317_Rohingya_persecution_in_Myanmar\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2016\u201317_Rohingya_persecution_in_Myanmar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I think that many of us, while we\u2019re all too familiar with the horrific violence perpetrated in the name of Islam, are inclined to think that, if there\u2019s really a religion of peace anywhere, it\u2019s likely to be <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/buddhism' target='_blank'>Buddhism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The case of the Rohingya people, though, represents Muslims being mercilessly hounded and abused by . . . \u00a0Buddhists.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 A remark today by one of the speakers at a session of the 2017 Religious Freedom Annual Review of BYU\u2019s\u00a0International Center for Law and Religion Studies spurs me to bring a situation to your attention that receives very little news coverage in the United States, if indeed it receives any at all: \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Persecution of Muslims in Myanmar (or Burma)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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