Ethno-religious markers and a citizenship law rendered the Rohingya stateless at home in Myanmar

Evidence

Their Muslim identity set them apart from the nation’s overwhelmingly Buddhist (90 percent) majority, and the Citizenship Law converted them into stateless beings at home. A small but visible minority comprising 4 percent of Myanmar’s population before the violent crackdown of 2017 sliced those figures to even paltrier numbers, Rohingya have been called “illegitimate citizens” and “Bangladeshis” by the government, and after the War on Terror crept in, “terrorists”—that familiar indictment that Muslims all over the world have come to know. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 660

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• XREF: The sequence ‘illegitimate citizens’ to ‘Bangladeshis’ to ‘terrorists’ shows escalating dehumanizing label progression echoing the reader’s other Islamophobia sources.