Muslims Cheer Old Shariah Foe Brownback for Backing Rohingya

Sam Brownback, a conservative former governor tasked with monitoring religious freedom, calls Myanmar’s campaign ‘religious cleansing’

Sam Brownback, the recently appointed U.S. ambassador for international religious freedom, said the violence directed against Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority was the worst he had ever seen and he expects a strong U.S. response.

“The intensity of the violence here, the thoroughness, is breathtaking,” Mr. Brownback said Thursday in Bangladesh, where some 700,000 Rohingya have fled since the military in Buddhist-majority Myanmar unleashed a bloody campaign against them in August.

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