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Aung San Suu Kyi, the Rohingya of Burma and the challenge of faith

In this photo taken on Sept. 8, 2012, Muslims gather during a visit by a delegation of American diplomats including U.S. Ambassador to Myanmar Derek Mitchell, unseen, at a refugee camp in Sittwe, Rakhine State, western Myanmar. Three-and-a-half months after some of the bloodiest clashes in a generation between Myanmar’s ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and stateless Muslims known as Rohingya left the western town of Sittwe in flames, nobody is quite sure when -or even if- the Rohingya will be allowed to resume the lives they once lived here. (AP) She came, she saw, she conquered. The photograph of  Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi  standing proudly with America’s smiling political elite at her  Congressional Gold Medal ceremony last month  in Washington, D.C., provides a powerful image of this heroine of democracy. She has justifiably  caught the world’s attention  and earned its love. Arizona Sen. John McCain called her “his personal hero.”