It’s one of the more purely religious conflicts out there, for most of its history.
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2017/0928/Is-Rohingya...
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2017/0928/Is-Rohingya...
Not to mention that Judaism already sets a fine precedent for the massive gray area between ethnicity and religion, just for a familiar example.