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Islam in Myanmar

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The Bengali Sunni Jameh Mosque, built in the colonial era, is one of many mosques in Yangon. Burma or Myanmar , is the largest country in the mainland Southeast Asia . China is on the northeast border , Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest and the Indian Ocean on the south, on the east a small portion borders Laos and a larger area borders Thailand . Majority of the population is Theravada Buddhists but a significant number of religions e.g. Christianity , Islam , Hinduism , Chinese religions , Bahá'í religion , Mahayana Buddhism , traditional animistic beliefs and the Judaism are also practiced in Burma .1 Islam is a minority religion in Burma , practiced by 4% of the population , according to the Myanmar official statistics .2 However, according to a U.S. State Department ’s 2006 international religious freedom report , official statistics underestimate the non-Buddhist population which could be as high as 30%. Muslim leaders estimated that approximately 20 percent of the population was Muslim .3

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  • Muslim diaspora 851 characters
  • Byat Wi and Byat Ta 1,586 characters
  • Shwe Byin brothers 2,811 characters
  • Sailors and traders 4,622 characters
  • Prisoners of war 3,454 characters
  • Royal Muslim soldiers 1,743 characters
  • Amarapura 3,449 characters
  • King Mindon 4,098 characters
  • Official policy 2,298 characters
  • Religious and race riots 440 characters
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