POLS 157 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Quran
23 Apr 2020
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Various issues of religious freedoms violations in the middle east. Iran"s repression of the baha"is to the extent that they are almost not allowing them to exist. Isis"s persecution of christians and yazidis to the point of genocide: restrictions on non-religious individuals in saudi arabia. A religious minority is a religious group that is not a majority of the population. In the middle east and north africa there are pre- and post-islamic religious communities. The pew government restrictions index and social hostilities index: percent of countries globally with high government restrictions on religion is around 25% For high social hostilities involving religion it is around 20: restrictions are high in asia and the middle east, relatively low in the americas and in. Two categories of explanation for religious freedom, culturalist and rationalist/institutionalist. Islam rejects secularism and religious minorities from within the koran. There are strict apostasy and blasphemy rules in it.
