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Religious discrimination in the history of the United States dates back to 1493 when Pope Alexander passed a Papal Bull/ decree stating non- Christians were not entitled to own land, etc, that being non-Christian they were sub- human, thus vetting and encouraging the colonisation of Americas and virtual annihilation of the native Indian population.
Iranian Americans, also known as Persian Americans, are United States citizens or nationals who are of Iranian ancestry, or who hold Iranian citizenship.. Most Iranian Americans arrived in the United States after 1979, as a result of the Iranian Revolution and the fall of the Iranian monarchy, with over 40% settling in California, specifically Los Angeles.
The Iranian Jewish community solidified the Jewish presence in the Middle East. In the year 642 CE, Islamic rule was established in Iran and religious minorities, including Jews, became second class citizens. Some Iranian Jews began to migrate to other parts of the world to escape the growing Jewish resentment in Iran.
An Iranian-born research scientist who filed a federal discrimination lawsuit alleging a co-worker at the University of Alabama at Birmingham harassed her for nine years because of her ethnicity ...
Religious discrimination is treating a person or group differently because of the particular religion they align with or were born into. This includes instances when adherents of different religions, denominations or non-religions are treated unequally due to their particular beliefs, either by the law or in institutional settings, such as ...
The hostile relationship is central to fears of a wider Middle East war. CNN’s Fareed Zakaria examines its past, present and future.
Dr. Mohammad Tavakoli, a Muslim-Iranian, who is a Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Toronto presents in Iran-Nameh, a Persian language academic journal, a study that examines the processes that led to the ghettoization and eventual "othering" of the Baháʼís in Iran by the political and religious forces within Iranian ...
Mona and Tamanna, two Iranian American sisters in their early 30s who declined to share their last name because they feared for their family in Iran, said they were inspired to be part of the ...