Do ‘rapidly breeding’ Rohingya Muslims really threaten Myanmar’s Buddhist identity?

Ethnic Rakhine Buddhist villagers protest the visit of UN Human Right Rapporteur on Rights in Myanmar Tomas Ojea Quintana, in August, 2013. The United Nations has called for dialogue after another violent clash in a camp for dispossessed Rohingya Muslims in western Myanmar. STR AFP/Getty Images

Ethnic Rakhine Buddhist villagers protest the visit of UN Human Right Rapporteur on Rights in Myanmar Tomas Ojea Quintana, in August, 2013. The United Nations has called for dialogue after another violent clash in a camp for dispossessed Rohingya Muslims in western Myanmar. STR AFP/Getty Images

Amid pogroms, Harvard researchers say the ‘Rohingya menace’ is Myanmar’s version of Reagan’s ‘welfare queen’ folk tale.

Patrick Winn reports on the politics behind the ongoing religious tension between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar for GlobalPost.

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