• Muslim candidate Khin Maung Thein speaks to a reporter in Mandalay on Oct. 5. The city is a Buddhist religious center crowded with temples, monasteries and monks. Khin, the only Mandalay Muslim to run in the Nov. 8 election, runs his campaign from a cluttered home that doubles as the family printing business. | REUTERS
    Muslim candidate Khin Maung Thein speaks to a reporter in Mandalay on Oct. 5. The city is a Buddhist religious center crowded with temples, monasteries and monks. Khin, the only Mandalay Muslim to run in the Nov. 8 election, runs his campaign from a cluttered home that doubles as the family printing business. | REUTERS

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MANDALAY, MYANMAR – The city of Mandalay in northern Myanmar is a Buddhist religious center so crowded with temples, monasteries and monks that they can sometimes seem innumerable.

The number of Mandalay Muslims standing in Myanmar’s historic general election on Nov. 8. is much easier to tally. That number would be one.

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