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Persecution is the systematic mistreatment of an individual or group by another individual or group. The most common forms are religious persecution, racism, ...
Religious persecution is the systematic oppression of an individual or a group of individuals as a response to their religious beliefs or affiliations or their lack thereof. The tendency of societies or groups within societies to alienate or repress different subcultures is a recurrent theme in human history.
Persecution is the systematic mistreatment of an individual or group by another individual or group. The most common forms are religious persecution , ethnic persecution and political persecution , although there is naturally some overlap between these terms.
Term Location of origin Targeted demographic Meaning origin and notes References Campbellite: United States: Followers of Church of Christ: Followers of the Church of Christ, from American Restoration Movement leaders Thomas Campbell and Alexander Campbell, the latter being one of two key people considered the founders of the movement.
Religious discrimination or bias [1] is related to religious persecution, the most extreme forms of which would include instances in which people have been executed for beliefs that have been perceived to be heretical. Laws that only carry light punishments are described as mild forms of religious persecution or religious discrimination.
Scholars are divided on whether the term Holocaust should be applied to all victims of Nazi mass murder, with some using it synonymously with Shoah or "Final Solution to the Jewish Question", and others including the killing of Romani people, imprisonment and execution of homosexual men, execution of the disabled, execution of the Poles, the ...
The intolerance, and even the active persecution of religious minorities (sometimes religious majorities as in modern Bahrain or the Pre-Dutch Indonesian kingdoms), has a long history. Almost all religions have historically faced and perpetrated persecution of other viewpoints.
Say, “Fighting during these months is a great sin. But hindering ˹others˺ from the Path of Allah, rejecting Him, and expelling the worshippers from the Sacred Mosque (at Makkah) is ˹a˺ greater ˹sin˺ in the sight of Allah. For persecution (Al-Fitnah) is far worse than killing.