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 | | In addition to the fundamental question of whether or not the anti-drug law burdens the person's religion, courts have examined: (a) whether or not the person is sincere in claiming he or she uses entheogens for religious purposes; and (b) whether or not use of the entheogen is indispensable or central to the person's religion. | | | The vast majority of religious entheogen users operate individually, or in very small groups that the typical court will be hard-pressed to classify as "churches" or "religions." These people often have a deep fidelity to their entheogen, believing that it is one of their most fulfilling relationships and a necessity for true prayer. | | | Therefore, a person seeking First Amendment protection for religious entheogen use, should consider making clear in their personal declaration that entheogen use is the "theological heart" of their religion; that entheogen use is a central and necessary component to his or her sincerely held religious beliefs. |
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| | Law on religious freedom in Macau |
| | In principle, the new law on religious freedom maintains the freedom of religious confessions, the freedom of association, meeting and maintaining their own places of worship and formation for these groups as well as their freedom to teach and promulgate the doctrinal content of their teaching. | | | To remedy what might seem lacking in law, the present government has legislated to guarantee the rights of the people and of society in things religious, both as regards personal freedom and as regards the structures needed to carry out the beliefs and practices of the religious groups involved. | | | The same second chapter guarantees freedom to teach and learn whatever religion the moral laws of which can be taught in the centres it authorises always keeping in mind the requirement of parental consent, and that the young people to be instructed are at least 16 years old. |
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| | Religious Liberty Law of Spain(General Act 7 of 5 July 1980) |
| | It also comprises the right of Churches, Faiths and Religious Communities to establish places of worship or assembly for religious purposes, appoint and train their ministers, promulgate and propagate their own beliefs and maintain relations with their own organisations or other religious faiths, within the national boundaries or abroad. | | | The State, taking account of the religious beliefs existing in Spanish society, shall establish, as appropriate, Co-operation Agreements or Conventions with the Churches, Faiths or Religious Communities enrolled in the Registry where warranted by their notorious influence in Spanish society, due to their domain or number of followers. | | | Registered Churches, Faiths, and Religious Communities shall be fully independent and may lay down their own organisational rules, internal and staff by-laws. |
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| | Christian News, Updated Daily - Christian Today > Serbia Latest Religious Law Draft Discriminates Against Minority ... |
| | According to the drafted law, the seven religious organisations recognised as "traditional" and "historical" by the Serbian government are the Serbian Orthodox Church, the Catholic Church, the Islamic Faith Community, the Jewish Religious Community, the Slovak Lutheran Church, the Lutheran Church of Serbia, and the Hungarian Reformed Church. | | | "With the proposed version of this law the state is guaranteeing to the churches and religious communities their autonomy, respecting their bylaws, financial assistance and also other necessary aspects in support of their spiritual mission," Serbian minister Radulovic was quoted by the Belgrade daily Danas on 2nd February. | | | A delegation of the Conference of European Churches (CEC) visited Serbia and Kosovo last week, and also expressed their concern that Baptists and Methodists are not being recognised as 'traditional church' as they met Radulovic. |
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http://www.christiantoday.com/news/europe/serbia.latest.religious.law.draft.discriminates.against.minority.protestants/451.htm
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| | The law on extremism and also the amendments to other laws have no relation to religion and consequently do not represent a threat to believers." Strongly disagreeing was Ninel Fokina of the Almaty Helsinki Committee, who told Forum 18 that "the term 'religious' occurs ten times (…). | | | "In the law on countering extremist activity the term 'religious' occurs ten times, although it would seem that religion and extremism are two totally different concepts," she insisted to Forum 18. | | | Amendments were also made to the law on freedom of religious profession and religious associations. |
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| | This has led (and continues to lead) to serious persecution of minority religions in many areas of the world. | | | Prayer and other religious speech: (Praying, moment of silence, position of political parties, misunderstandings about school prayer, prayers at sports events, prayers at graduation, teaching about religion, renting school facilities, student clothing, student freedom of speech, etc) | | | Sampling of U.S., Canadian, other country's, and international laws, covenants, and constitutional protections of freedom of religion |
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| | THE IRANIAN: Opinion, Women & "religious" law in Israel and Iran, Nakissa Sedaghat |
| | In both Iran and Israel, women are encouraged culturally and religiously, if not by law (yet), to remain in the confines of their homes to fulfill their "duties" as wife and mother. | | | Gender segregation is a result of religious leaders' cultural viewing of women as sexual beings whose sole goal in life is to tempt men so that they can fulfill their own sexual desires. | | | In both Iran and Israel, the religious law imposes unequal treatment of women, particularly in family matters. |
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| | JURIST - Fair: One Nation Under Law: Chief Justice Roy Moore's Ten Commandments ... |
| | Religious liberty means no government official can declare what is orthodox in religion. | | | Although both men were personally religious, they supported religious liberty for all. | | | No religion shall be established; no preference shall be given by law to any sect or denomination. |
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| | Russia's religious law gets test in court |
| | The law was seen as an attempt to solidify the Russian Orthodox Church's position as Russia's dominant religion. | | | The Orthodox Church, the nation's official church during centuries of czarist rule, is assisting the prosecution in the civil case, which depicts Jehovah's Witnesses as a cult that is stirring social discord by claiming to be the only true religion. | | | Roman Kon, a Moscow spokesman for the Russian Orthodox Church, said church leaders believe Jehovah's Witnesses' principal tenants are "harmful" to the religious fabric of Russia, but he dismisses assertions that his church is engaged in a wholesale assault on foreign denominations. |
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| | Georgi Vyazovsky, pastor of Christ Covenant Church, a Reform Baptist church in Minsk with nine other associated congregations, told Keston by telephone on 2 October that the law was "very bad" and "against the Gospel". | | | He believes this will only worsen, despite the fact that the Union will have no problem retaining the status of a "religious association", which will be necessary in future to publish books and magazines, import religious literature, maintain religious educational establishments and invite foreigners for religious work. | | | In addition to the new requirement for individual communities to have twenty adult citizen founders (up from ten under the current law), only religious communities that have ten registered congregations, one of which had registration back in 1982 will be able to gain registration for an "association", or umbrella body. |
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| | Russian Religious Extremism Law - Johnson's Russia List 7-3-02 |
| | Reporting on violations of religious liberty and on religion in communist and post-communist lands. | | | Unlike the first draft of this text, however, the supplementary law includes changes to Article 14 of the 1997 law on religion, removing some of the specific grounds for liquidation but replacing them with the broader definition of “executing extremist activity”. | | | An accompanying change to the 1997 religion law would widen the existing grounds for banning religious organisations. |
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| | Crosswalk.com - UK Religious Hate Law Will Harm Free Speech, Critics Say |
| | Pointing out that Muslims who convert to another faith risk execution under shari'a law, and that some Hindus are treated as "untouchables" under that religion's caste system, the group said the law could be used to stop anyone from speaking out on behalf of people who suffer in those ways. | | | "Although no reasonable person wants religious hatred to be incited, there is no way that the incitement of religious hatred can be defined in law so clearly and narrowly that such legislation is not grossly misused as a means of censoring fair comments and criticisms of religion and certain religious practice," Wong said. | | | Opponents say the measure is wide open to misinterpretation and abuse, pointing out that the bill defines religious hatred loosely as "hatred against a group of persons defined by reference to religious belief or lack of religious belief." |
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| | According to the brief, the law passes the high court’s three-part Lemon test: (1) It has a secular purpose; (2) it does not promote religion primarily, and (3) it does not establish excessive entanglement with religion. | | | The ERLC and nearly 60 other members of the Coalition for the Free Exercise of Religion contend in the brief the law is an appropriate accommodation of religious free exercise and does not violate the establishment clause. | | | Under the law, religion is favored over non-religion, Cole said. |
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| | Religious Hatred Law |
| | So far the debate about the proposed religious hatred law has focused on the rights of secular critics to speak out, but the majority of religious followers also stand to lose. | | | The 18th century defenders of the Enlightenment were right to fear religious enthusiasm. | | | As David Hume warned in the 18th century, religious leaders often have a different motivation from their followers. |
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| | SSRN-The Pluralist Predicament: Contemporary Theorizing in the Law of Religious Freedom by Steven Smith |
| | In a condition of religious pluralism, however, theorists typically suppose that it is impermissible to appeal to contested religious beliefs. | | | Keywords: religious freedom, religion, freedom, nonestablishment, separation of church and state, free exercise | | | But these are the very beliefs that would provide the natural foundations for thinking about the proper relation between government and religion (and that at least until relatively recently did provide the foundations for such thinking). |
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| | Christian News, Updated Daily - Christian Today > China’s New Controversial Religious Law Comes into Effect |
| | In response to the launch of the new religious law, AsiaNews, a Catholic-based newspaper, interviewed Anthony Lam, an expert on the Church in China at the Holy Spirit Study Centre, a research institute of the Diocese of Hong Kong. | | | Lam analysed that in fact the new religious laws do not seem to give more freedom to religions. | | | On the 1st July 2004, the 7th anniversary of the handover took place, and tens of thousands of Christians in Hong Kong held prayer meetings and demonstrated on the streets to protest against the implementation of the new religious law. |
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http://www.christiantoday.com/news/asia-pacific/chinas.new.controversial.religious.law.comes.into.effect/201.htm
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| | Can Religious Law be Changed |
| | It is inconceivable that a community which does not believers in Islam as a message vouchasafed by God to His last messenger would ever adopt Islamic law and try to implement it through the regular law enforcing procedures and authorities. | | | Nowadays, when we hear of groups and movements demanding the implementation of Islamic law, we realize that they are asking that the Shari’ah is put into effect. | | | These two meanings continue to leave their connotations on the word when it is used in Islamic context. |
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| | Christian Century: Religious-freedom law marks first anniversary |
| | Smith, which involved antidrug laws and the religious use of peyote in the Native American Church. | | | At the same time the new law has defied the predictions of its critics, who claimed it would open the way for all manner of bizarre and dangerous religious practices. | | | The ruling sent shock waves through the religious community, as well as through secular groups, such as the American Civil Liberties Union, involved in church-state issues. |
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| | BBC NEWS UK Q&A: Religious hatred law |
| | The government says it wants to extend protection to people so they cannot be harmed because of their religious beliefs. | | | There are already Europe-wide regulations banning religious discrimination in the work place while the Human Rights Act incorporated the concept of religious freedom into British law. | | | The law of blasphemy bans people from saying unpleasant things about the Church of England's take on Christianity - but in practical terms it's now extremely unlikely that we will ever see another prosecution. |
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| | CBS News France Bans Head Scarves In School March 4, 2004 02:55:19 |
| | Raffarin insisted the law was needed to contain the spread of Muslim fundamentalism and ensure that the principle of secularism on which France is based remains intact. | | | The law forbids religious apparel and signs that "conspicuously show" a student's religious affiliation. | | | French missions abroad must "try to reassure those who are concerned," he said. |
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| | The Hindu : International : China amends religious affairs law |
| | The new provisions, a set of comprehensive administrative rules, specifies that the legitimate rights of religious groups, religious sites and the religious people are protected. | | | There are 100 million religious believers in China among the 1.3 billion population. | | | The drafting of the new provisions has taken six full years, taking into account views and suggestions from people in law, religion and human rights, the report said. |
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| | Europe's Most Repressive Religious Law Takes Effect, Codifies Persecution |
| | Lukashenko signed the law October 31, and it went into effect November 16, outlawing unregistered religious activity, requiring compulsory prior censorship for all religious literature, banning foreign citizens from leading religious organizations, restricting publishing and education to faiths that have 10 registered communities, and banning all but occasional, small religious meetings in private homes. | | | The pastor of a Pentecostal church in Minsk told Keston the complaining began after the new law was adopted. | | | Keston said the public opinion is usually stirred up by local Orthodox priests who lobby against non-Orthodox religions. |
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| | British Christians Protest Religious "Hate" Law |
| | But Christians say the law could be used against them, simply for teaching the Bible's truth. | | | It's happening in London, where the House of Commons recently approved a 'religious hate law'. | | | Call The 700 Club Prayer Counseling Center at 1 (800) 759-0700, 24 hours a day. |
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| | It is impossible, and in my view even improper, to demand that Orthodox rabbis not issue rulings conforming to Jewish religious law which has for them an incontestable validity as the Word of God. | | | But it is reasonable to demand that those who do not believe in the sanctity of Jewish religious law know what is its real content. | | | The second example concerns the definition of the term "harlot" in Jewish religious law. |
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| | Neil Addison (Barrister), Religion Law UK Refutation of legal loophole argument | | | Why this new law will stifle any criticism of religion | | | Australia: Church Leaders' U-Turn on Religious Hatred Law In Victoria |
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| | freedomforum.org: France's anti-cult law undermines religious-liberty rights |
| | For the past two years, Chinese officials have justified their crackdown on the religious movement Falun Gong by labeling practitioners "cultists" who pose a danger to the state. | | | If the state is given the power to determine which religions are acceptable and which should be banned, no one is safe from the threat of religious persecution. | | | Persecution of unpopular or new religious movements has been justified throughout history by labeling them as dangerous cults. |
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| | Planned Law on Religious Hatred Prompts Protests - Christianity Today magazine - ChristianityTodayLibrary.com |
| | The Evangelical Alliance would stand firm against the victimization of members of other faiths, but he appealed to the British government not to confuse religious pluralism with syncretism—"to pretend that faiths are all the same, or where there are differences they don't matter". | | | He indicated that religious leaders needed to accept some blame: "Religion is in denial. | | | Joel Edwards, general director of the Evangelical Alliance, also issued a warning about the proposed law, saying that it might restrict the Christian mission to spread the gospel. |
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| | Such regulations shall be adopted only after consultation with representatives of traditional Indian religions for which the sacramental use of peyote is integral to their practice. | | | An Act to emend the American Indian Religious Freedom Act to provide for the traditional use of peyote by Indians for religious purposes, and for other purposes. | | | "(6) Subject to the provisions of the Religious Freedom Restora- tion Act (Public Law 103-141; 42 U.S.C. 2000bb-1), this section shall not be construed to prohibit States from enacting or enforcing reasonable traffic safety laws or regulations. |
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| | Vietnam slams US for law against religious persecutors |
| | Amor expressed his frustration with interference from Hanoi after having been prevented from meeting Catholic and Buddhist dissidents and other religious officials. | | | Wednesday's commentary comes one week after the departure of UN Special Rapporteur on Religious Intolerance Abdelfattah Amor whose 10-day visit was plagued with obstacles thrown up by Vietnamese officials. | | | Vietnam slams US for law against religious persecutors |
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| | RELIGIOUS FREEDOM LAW SOUGHT AGAIN AFTER CASE INVOLVING ORTHODOX JEW |
| | Nevertheless, it shows there is a need for legislation so that employers know they must accommodate their employees' religious beliefs, Foltin said. | | | The other is to create a climate that makes employers understand that they must accommodate religious differences. | | | But supporters of religious freedom say the courts never properly interpreted the law, and employers have not faced any meaningful obligation to accommodate their workers' religious practices. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Fired religious law officer loses Supreme Court case |
| | A federal law protects people from discrimination based on religion. | | | Justices refused to take on another religious case. | | | The state trooper had said that the gambling enforcement assignment would force him to violate his religious beliefs. |
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| | The danger is that it will teach other women to do the same thing. | | | Copyright © 2002 by Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance | | | Hussaini's lawyers claimed that she also could not be convicted because of the four witness rule. |
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| | The prisoners or ex-prisoners included a Satanist; a member of the Wicca witchcraft religion; two members of the Asatru religion that originated with the Vikings in Northern Europe, and an ordained minister of a religion that believes in separation of the races. | | | Ginsburg said the law alleviated government-created burdens on religious observances. | | | A U.S. appeals court agreed that the law's provisions were unconstitutional because they have the effect of giving greater freedom to religious inmates and would induce nonbelieving prisoners to adopt a religion. |
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| | Customary legal provisions that discriminated against women on the basis of gender and or status and deny them full participation in decision-making in rural and urban communities were identified as the first priority for concentration. | | | At the request of the Rural Women's Movement, a lengthy argument in support of the repeal of a law that states that black women married in customary law are minors subject to the guardianship of their husbands was prepared and forwarded to the Department of Justice followed by the one to Home Affairs. | | | We work with an important distinction between the 'living' customary law (customary practices of the communities that lead their lives in accordance with customary law) and the customary law entrenched in law books and legislation enacted by governments that were in power before the democratic era. |
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| | Religious Law Calls for Allegiance to Rabbinate |
| | "I undertake to be faithful to the state of Israel and its laws, to fulfill my duties as a member of the religious council in accordance with the stipulations of this law, and to fulfill the decisions of the religious council.'' | | | A member of a religious council can continue to serve only if he makes this declaration. | | | The bill also says the religious council and its members will act in accordance with the rulings of the local rabbinate and the chief rabbinate in every matter which is within the duties and powers of the religious council. |
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| | Canon and Ecclesiastical law - Robbins Collection |
| | The Collection is not limited to the Roman church but encompasses the Anglican and Protestant denominations as well as the Slavic and Byzantine churches, highlighted by a thirteenth-century manuscript of the Canons of the Church Councils and the Nomocanon of Photius, both accompanied by the commentaries of Theodore Balsamon, the Greek archbishop of Antioch (c. | | | See our paper on "Religious Law in a Secular Setting: A Cataloging and Classification Approach" | | | Since then many more incunables and early printings have been added to the rare book collection. |
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| | Incitement to religious hatred law - Stormfront White Nationalist Community |
| | Here is a letter that you cut and paste OR email to your MP to urge him to vote against this law which the vile Islamic cult wishes to use to suppress dissent and free speech against their foul religion : | | | I share the concerns that have been raised by many that such a law banning incitement to religious hatred could seriously restrict the freedom to criticise any faith or the actions of its followers, thus undermining free speech. | | | At least one former prominent supporter of the law, Amir Butler, executive director of the Australian Muslim Public Affairs Committee, who originally believed it would protect the Muslim community from victimisation, has now come out strongly against it because he has seen the damage it is doing to community relations between different religious groups. |
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| | Prisoners' Religious Rights Law Upheld |
| | "We do not read RLUIPA to elevate accommodation of religious observances over an institution's need to maintain order and safety," she noted. | | | But Ginsburg added that the states could challenge the law on a case-by-case basis. | | | Religious observance is no exception to laws that apply generally, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote for the court. |
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| | Web Sites Related to Church State Law and Religious Freedom : Religious Liberty Archive : Rothgerber Johnson & ... |
| | This link describes RJ&L's religious institutions legal practice. | | | Becket Fund - The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty is a bipartisan, ecumenical, public-interest law firm that protects the free expression of all religious traditions. | | | American Center for Law and Justice - The American Center for Law and Justice is a public interest law firm committed to ensuring the ongoing viability of constitutional freedoms in accordance with principles of justice as outlined in scripture. |
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| | That state already has a religious accommodation law and protects people against discrimination based on sexual orientation. | | | Current federal law prohibits discrimination based on religion. | | | Anders said it is important that the bill be changed because there have been attempts under current law to use religion to justify workplace discrimination against gay men and lesbians. |
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| | Barr concluded, "an element of faith in my decision to come here." | | | The Liberty School of Law offers no courses in religion as such, and most of its classes are rigorous, practical and conventional. | | | The school, which says its mission is to train "ministers of justice," is part of a movement around the nation that means to bring a religious perspective to the law and a moral component to legal practice. |
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| | Veiled Meaning: The French Law Banning Religious Symbols in Public Schools |
| | Note: The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and should not be attributed to the staff, officers or trustees of The Brookings Institution | | | American public high schools accept students wearing religious symbols, such as the headscarf, a Jewish skullcap or a large Christian cross. | | | Rather, the law is a narrowly defined reassertion of religious neutrality within French public schools. |
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| | Colorado Christian University Mounts Legal Challenge to Religious Discrimination in Colorado Student Aid Programs | | | Washburn University Changes Student Organization Policies to Recognize Religious Groups' Right to be Religious | | | Through litigation, legislative advocacy, friend of the court briefs, and public education, Christian Legal Society's Center for Law and Religious Freedom works to protect the religious liberty of all Americans and the sanctity of human life. |
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| | Pakistani religious law challenged csmonitor.com |
| | Not all Muslim countries have adopted hudood penalties in their criminal justice codes, and Islamic scholars debate whether such laws are a correct interpretation of the Koran. | | | Women who cannot produce this many witnesses often end up in jail themselves for adultery, a crime against the state punishable by stoning to death. | | | Basira Jiskani is just one of thousands of women facing trial in Pakistan under the infamous Hudood Ordinances, religious codes which were passed under the military dictatorship of Gen. Zia ul-Haq. |
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| | The vote followed a concession by the government which will change the proposed offence of causing "racial or religious hatred" to "hatred against persons on racial or religious grounds". | | | Comedian Rowan Atkinson supported the attempt to tighten the definition of racial and religious hatred. | | | "The incitement of religious hatred doesn't even have to be intended, it is just if it offends any person. |
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| | The law gives the president the option of eight diplomatic actions and seven economic sanctions to use against countries found to be engaged in religious persecution. | | | Catholic World News : Clinton Signs Religious Persecution Law | | | WASHINGTON, DC (CWNews.com) - President Bill Clinton on Tuesday signed into law a new measure to punish countries that persecute religious believers. |
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