It is critical foris
scholars and policymakers analyzing
recent events to recognize the persua-
sive force of religious reasons given in
defense of discriminatory or exclusionary policies (Kyaw San Wai 2014).
This is a particular threat to continued reform in countries where demo-
cratic practices and values have not yet been consolidated, as is currently
the case in Myanmar. At the moment in which the Buddhist sasana is
perceived as being threatened, democracy reverts to theocracy