Buddhist instigated violence in Myanmar

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It is fair to ask if the buddhists in myanmar were all secular but otherwise of comparable social-economic circumstances, and all the muslims were just as they were, whether that would genuinely significantly reduce the chance of similar outbursts occurring against Muslims would occur.

I think it's possible that nothing would change, it's also possible the situation would also be better. For one, if everyone was secular you certainly wouldn't have monks leading attacks. No central leadership to tell a mob what to do. We just don't know enough with the hypothetical. What we do know is that being Buddhist certainly isn't making the situation any better.