Rohingya Suffering Feeds Extremist Message Worldwide

A major humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in Myanmar, as tens of thousands of people, the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority, flee the threat of ethnic cleansing carried out by the country’s government.

Rohingya civilians have been the target of village burnings, mass executions, disappearances and rape, according to the United Nations, and more than 120,000 have chosen to flee rather than risk a grimmer fate at home. Their plight does not happen in a vacuum, however, as Muslims around the world watch in horror, and the killings fit into a narrative that violent extremists use to recruit.

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