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Human Rights Council
Religious persecution and endangerment
Religious persecution is the mistreatment of a person or a group of people based on their
beliefs or lack there of. This is a problem that has been happening for centuries and has become a
recurring theme in society, unfortunately this usually through violence toward other religions.
Most religions have been persecuted at some point in time; it is a problem that takes place all
over the world. Religious genocide is still a problem that is not always acknowledged.
The Middle East and Palestine are currently a hot bed for religious persecution. It has
resulted in a large amount of violence toward all religions in that area. Israel settler violence
against Palestinians is consistently rising, since 2006 settler attacks have quadrupled. The
settlers continue to diminish because of the lack of support from the Palestinian police.
Christianity in the Middle East has extremely decreased due to the northern Iraq offence which
started with Christians either having to pay a fee, leave, convert to Islam, or die. Jihadists then
changed the requirements to either leave or die. After 9/11 American Muslims were persecuted
in the United States because of the actions of Islamic extremists. Though the actions weren’t
very violent, Americans put down and treated American Muslims very terribly. Though these
are just a few places and incidents, religious persecution has taken place all over the world and
has been going on for centuries.
Questions to Consider:
1. How can religious persecution be stopped?
2. How are these religious genocides affecting the other citizens?
3. Why is religious persecution happening?
Resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_persecution
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/religious-persecution/