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	Encyclopedia: Religious intolerance
		Religious persecution is most often a variant of persecution, motivated by non-religious factors such as simple greed.
		Anti-Catholicism is religious or political opposition to the Roman Catholic Church, particularly of a kind employing alleged mischaracterizations, stereotypes and negative prejudices.
		Religious pluralism is the belief that one can overcome religious differences between different religions, and denominational conflicts within the same religion.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Religious-intolerance (902 words)

	Written Submissions to UNCHR: Religious Intolerance in Asia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Instead of dispelling the fears of religious minorities in the Dangs, the prime minister visited the area and called for a national debate on conversions, thereby deepening suspicion that religious extremists are being supported by the State.
		Religious tensions such as these are frequently orchestrated by governments or outside agents in order to divert the attention of the poor and marginalised from their economic miseries.
		The suppression of minority groups' religious beliefs is tacitly permitted or directly supported by the authorities as clamour from the majority, often provoked by extremist groups, is either acceded to or tolerated to gain political mileage.
	www.ahrchk.net /hrsolid/mainfile.php/2001vol11no3/38 (1338 words)

	Religious intolerance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Religious intolerance is either intolerance motivated by one's own religious beliefs or intolerance against another's religious beliefs or practices.
		Religious intolerance and persecution have been common throughout history, and most faiths have been subject to it at one time or another.
		In its 2000 annual report on international religious freedom, the U.S. State Department cited China, Myanmar, Iran, Iraq and Sudan for persecuting people for their religious faith and practices.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Religious_intolerance (150 words)

	UN Commission on Human Rights - Visit by the Special Rapporteur to Iran (Feb 96)
		Minority religious, political and social representatives stated that they were not subjected to any interference by the authorities in their internal religious activities, which could be exercised freely, particularly with regard to worship and religious traditions and the management of the affairs of religious institutions.
		Religious instruction was given by minority teachers (national education teachers or persons paid by the minorities) on the basis of textbooks prepared and funded by the Ministry of Education in cooperation with the minorities.
		In the religious field and particularly in that of religious education, instruction manuals should be compiled in closer systematic collaboration with competent representatives of the minorities in order to ensure that religious beliefs are correctly transcribed and respected.
	www.umn.edu /humanrts/commission/country52/95-add2.htm (8127 words)

	Religious intolerance
		The mandate of the Special Rapporteur (SR) on religious intolerance was created by the Commission in 1986 and given the specific purpose of identifying incidents and government actions that are inconsistent with provisions in the Declaration on the Elimination of all Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief.
		The SR stated that, admittedly, interpretations of the role of education and religious instruction in particular, and of the principles of tolerance and non-discrimination vary according to the state concerned.
		The report notes that some states replied that their population was completely homogenous from the religious standpoint, which raised the question whether consideration should be given to several reliable sources of information which report the existence of religious minorities.
	www.hri.ca /fortherecord1998/vol1/religious.htm (797 words)

	USCCB - Religious Intolerance in Europe Today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Freedom of religious expression and evangelization includes freedom to worship as a community, freedom to publish and to communicate through the media, freedom to educate one's children in their faith, and freedom to address the religious and moral dimensions of social, economic and political quesions.
		It is also clear that religious liberty covers a broad range of activities, from freedom of worship to the right to establish charitable groups and to participate in and to seek to influence public affairs.
		These foreign religious workers are essential to the life of the Church in Belarus and other countries because of the strict limits on the number of indigenous priests and religious orders under communism.
	www.nccbuscc.org /sdwp/international/helsinte997.htm (3070 words)

	Religious intolerance
		So it is understandable, perhaps, that international efforts to monitor and prevent religious intolerance have sometimes been overlooked by governments and others, despite strong international declarations that clearly uphold the right of religious freedom or belief - and despite strong teachings by all of the religions that stress tolerance, peace and good will.
		Cosponsored by the Council for Religious and Lifestance Communities in Norway, of which the Bahá'í community of Norway is a member, the Oslo Conference on Freedom of Religion or Belief brought together a highly diverse and prominent group of government delegates, human rights experts, religious leaders, and NGO representatives from 12-15 August 1998.
		Numerous times, religious leaders of all creeds emphasized that religions and beliefs should teach peaceful relations with others and that they as religious authorities in their communities should do their utmost to prevent religion from being misused to cause intolerance, discrimination and prejudice.
	www.onecountry.org /e102/e10204as.htm (1523 words)

	Ending Religious Intolerance
		Angelo Vidal d'Almeida Ribeiro, the Special Rapporteur on Religious Intolerance, in his report to the Commission on Human Rights, that a more determined effort should be made at all levels to combat attitudes of discrimination or intolerance, especially when they have deep historic and cultural roots.
		The creation of a climate of religious tolerance is a challenge that faces religious leaders, educators, the media, and government officials especially.
		Indeed, one of the strangest and saddest features of the current outbreak of religious fanaticism is the extent to which, in each case, it is undermining not only the spiritual values which are conducive to the unity of mankind but also those unique moral victories won by the particular religion it purports to serve.
	www.bic-un.bahai.org /93-0803.htm (583 words)

	Links from The Foundation against Intolerance of Religious Minorities
		Religious expression — from all traditions — is a natural part of life in civilized society, and religious arguments, on all sides of a question, are a normal and healthy element in public debate.
		Religious people and institutions are entitled to participate in government affairs on an equal basis with everyone else, and should not be excluded for professing their faith.
		The International Coalition for Religious Freedom is a non-profit, non-sectarian, educational organization dedicated to defending the religious freedom of all, regardless of creed, gender or ethnic origin.
	www.firmstand.org /links/index.html (1380 words)

	UN Chronicle \| Unlearning Intolerance : Elimination of All Forms of Religious Intolerance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The adoption of resolution 59/199, “Elimination of all forms of religious intolerance”, marks the culmination of arduous negotiations, especially involving the Netherlands, which sponsored the draft on behalf of the European Union (EU), members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and Israel.
		Ireland had been the main sponsor of the resolution at the fifty-eighth Assembly session; however, “as eliminating religious intolerance is one of the priorities of the EU, we decided to sponsor the resolution this year”, he said.
		Although, the text mentioned two other main religious groups—Islam and Christianity—she said it was a disparity in the “terminology” that did not go very well with her country.
	www.un.org /Pubs/chronicle/2005/issue1/0105p30.html (1192 words)

	CNN.com - US - U.S. State Department report says 'religious intolerance remains far too common' around world - ...
		The report noted that "much of the world's population lives in countries where the right to religious freedom is restricted or prohibited" despite the fact that 144 countries belong to an international covenant that acknowledges the right of all citizens to religious freedom.
		Robert Seiple, the U.S. ambassador at large for religious freedom, cited the case of an unnamed 60-year-old female Falun Gong practitioner who died in custody and whose body was covered in bruises, with dried blood in her ears, eye and nose and all of her teeth broken.
		Religious minorities are also subject to persecution in Sudan, the report says.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/US/09/05/state.dept.religion (1109 words)

	FI: Item 11: Religious Intolerance
		Religious intolerance remains at the root of a number of conflicts and ongoing violence in the world.
		Religious discrimination in Pakistan is inscribed in legislation that tends to promote a culture of intolerance and division.
		The legislation is contained in the Separate Electorate Act for religious minorities and the Blasphemy Laws 295 B and C of the Penal Code that includes the death penalty for violation of the laws.
	www.franciscansinternational.org /docs/statement.php?id=133 (668 words)

	Religious freedom, religious tolerance and religious intolerance
		The concepts of religious freedom and tolerance - allowing individuals to believe in, practice, and promote the religion of choice without repercussions - are legitimate and worthwhile.
		The practice of discouraging religious freedom and the freedom to express and/or promote all or certain religious beliefs - with repercussions ranging from discrimination and harassment to prevention and prosecution (by legal and/or illegal means).
		Religious Pluralism The theory that there are more than one or more than two kinds of ultimate reality and/or truth - and that therefore more than one religion can be said to have the truth (way to God, salvation, etcetera).
	www.apologeticsindex.org /r04.html (1380 words)

	FIRM: The Foundation against Intolerance of Religious Minorities
		of religious minorities and their founders (including persecution of Christianity in its infancy, leading to the deaths of Jesus and many of his disciples), and it examines the origins of (and the motivations behind) such persecution.
		The "allowable" or semi-official cults of the yet remaining religious establishment continue to serve as exoteric religious extensions of the secular State.
		But all non-establishment cults of free religious, mystical, and spiritual experimentation and practice are constantly the subjects of negative propaganda in the popular communications media.
	www.firmstand.org (747 words)

	About Religious Intolerance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Institutionalization of intolerance has become entrenched in Pakistan in part because of a discriminatory legal and electoral system, and of social, judicial, educational and economical biases.
		'Members of the religious minorities in Pakistan have for some time campaigned to end the system of separate electorates whereby they elect their own minority representatives to parliament; they claim that it in fact separates them from the mainstream of national life, enhances religious divisions, increases discrimination and marginalizes minorities.
		Religious minorities are generally part of the poorest sectors of society.
	www.ahrchk.net /qaumi/mainfile.php/0202/66 (1180 words)

	Religious Intolerance
		A terrifying prospect to me is that religious thought in the US is on the rise and could again trump science.
		Religious thought leads on to warm, cogent, simple statements like the earth is flat, the sun rotates about the earth, we live in Euclidean space, life begins at conception, homosexuality exist only in humans, marriage is between one man and one woman.
		Politicized religion, a cheap weapon of political opportunists, has always had deleterious effects on society and does nothing to promote the noble and constructive sentiments that are found in all religions.
	www.stanford.edu /group/wais/Religion/religion_intolerance.htm (775 words)

	Religious Extremism on the Rise, says U.N. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In a 23-page report to the General Assembly, Amor points out that religious intolerance should be viewed in the larger context of the economic, social and political conditions that foster it.
		Islam continues to be associated with religious extremism and terrorism - particularly in the media in the United States, Germany and Australia.
		The most common victims of religious extremism are minorities (as in Afghanistan, India, Indonesia, Israel, Niger and Pakistan) and women (as in the case of Afghanistan).
	www.ips.org /rights/news/nup051299_11.htm (864 words)

	Clinton's South Asia Trip - Religious Intolerance and the Rise of Hindu Nationalism, March 2000
		They represent a clear failure on the part of both the federal and state governments to ensure that such communities enjoy the full protection of their constitutional rights to freedom of religion and equal protection under the law.
		Despite the existence of comprehensive legislation to address the problem of religious intolerance and communal violence, the authorities have failed to prosecute offending individuals and organizations; instead, the government has in many cases offered tacit support and indirect justification for the attacks.
		Require that police register all cases of communal attacks, regardless of the religious background of the complainant, and enforce this through frequent reviews of registers by a magistrate or other competent judicial authority and the establishment of a civilian review board mandated to investigate complaints.
	www.hrw.org /campaigns/sasia/india-religion.htm (1514 words)

	Uzbekistan: Muslim Dissidents Jailed and Tortured (Human Rights Watch, 30-3-2004)
		The 319-page report, "Creating Enemies of the State: Religious Persecution in Uzbekistan," details the arrest and torture of detainees in an ongoing campaign that has resulted in the incarceration of an estimated 7,000 Muslim dissidents.
		Her son, imprisoned for "religious extremism," died in prison in August 2002 after he was apparently submerged in boiling water.
		Prosecutors charged that he and 16 other men were part of an "extremist group" and argued that their private religious study indicated they were part of an organized group that was spreading literature containing "fundamentalist" and "extremist" ideas.
	www.hrw.org /english/docs/2004/03/29/uzbeki8309.htm (1496 words)

	Eliminating Religious Intolerance
		We have therefore studied with interest Dr. Ribeiro's latest report, hope that his mandate will once again be renewed by the Commission, and wish to underline the importance of forging a broad and non-partisan consensus on the elimination of religious intolerance.
		While Dr. Ribeiro has chosen to focus on allegations of violations of religious freedom in seven countries, it is important to bear in mind that many countries suffer from the pernicious influence of religious intolerance.
		Ribeiro has rightly pointed out that intransigent attitudes, the claim of religious believers to an absolute and exclusive hold on truth, and the denial of the right of everyone to be different are root causes of religious discrimination.
	www.bic-un.bahai.org /88-0217.htm (860 words)

	CNN - The following is the text of the ad placed by the Scientologists in The New York Times: - Oct. 17, 1996
		To prevent a repetition of the persecution of religious minorities in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s, the country's post-war Constitution guarantees the right to religious freedom and practice.
		However, to circumvent the Constitution and justify their attempts to deprive members of the Church of Scientology of their civil rights, German officials have bluntly asserted that Scientology is not a religion.
		As a dozen international religious scholars recently pointed out in a public statement directed at German Government leaders, these arbitrary decisions are based not on an impartial study of the facts, but on irrationality and prejudice.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9610/17/german.text/text.html (791 words)

	U.S. Criticizes Countries For Religious Intolerance
		Many nations claim cultural and historical factors for religious intolerance but "at the end of the day there is no good reason for governments to violate religious freedom," Robert Seiple, U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, told a news briefing.
		In Afghanistan, religious freedom is "severely restricted, and the dominant Taliban, a fundamentalist Sunni Muslim group that controls most of the country, persecutes and kills minority Shi'as, the report said.
		India initially played down a sharp upswing in violence by extremists against religious minorities and their places of worship and the response by state and local prosecutors to these events was "often inadequate," the report said.
	www.uga.edu /bahai/News/091099-3.html (791 words)

	Religious Intolerance
		The SR refers to a study that was undertaken (to be submitted to the 2002 session of the Commission) and noted that norms inherited from ancestors and the past tend in all religions to discriminate against women.
		There are three annexes to the study: (a) the questionnaire that was submitted to states in 1994; (b) an analysis of the replies received to the questionnaire; (c) the questions as they appeared in the questionnaire and some statistical elements to complete the overall picture emerging from the previous annex.
		Topics addressed in the study include the definitions of education, human rights education and religious education, noting that the last radically differs from catechism or theology, and the use of education in religion and conviction as a preventive measure against intolerance and discrimination.
	www.hri.ca /fortherecord2001/vol1/religious.htm (2373 words)

	America: a nation of religious intolerance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hearing about the Puritans and their intolerance once they reached the new world seemed to foreshadow events of the future.
		Not only were the Puritans intolerant, but so were the people that lived in the colonies in future generations that took on "unorthodox views".
		It seems that although the new world seemed to promote Religious freedom, it turned out to be a nation that merely promoted the most "popular" religion of that time.
	uwadmnweb.uwyo.edu /Dshaffer/_disc4/00000022.htm (149 words)

	Religious Intolerance
		Religious Intolerance by Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, at the Pittsburgh Opera House, October 14, 1879.
		The present laws of different States were next reviewed, so far as they relate to the prevention of infidels giving testimony and to religious intolerance in any way, and these features were all branded and discussed as a gigantic evil.
		The lecture was attentively listened to by the immense audience from beginning to the end, and the speaker's most blasphemous flights were the most loudly applauded.
	www.edwardtbabinski.us /lectures/religious_intolerance.html (1719 words)

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