Muslim countries cited on religious freedom

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Source: ENInews/RNS

"Religious persecution is not only more prevalent among Muslim-majority countries, but it also generally occurs at more severe levels," Roger Finke and Brian J. Grim write in their new book "The
Price of Freedom Denied," published by Cambridge University Press.

Finke and Grim drew on annual reports by the U.S. State Department to conclude that religious persecution plagues all regions of the globe.

Studying 143 countries, they found that:
-- 86 percent of countries in recent years had cases of people physically abused or removed from their homes based on their religion.
-- High levels of government restrictions on religion were found in 78 percent of Muslim-majority nations, as opposed to ten percent of Christian-majority nations and 43 percent of other nations.

Read more: http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=4667

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Web source is ENI. Research is on Cambridge Press.

I'm curious to know where the U.S. falls in the percentages of Western countries with laws that are restrictive of religious freedoms, but I doubt I'll read the book. Any takers?

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1. "Much of the persecution is Muslim on Muslim"

Yep, look at our ally Saudi Arabia which persecutes Shia Muslims or our ally Pakistan persecuting Ahmadiyya Muslims as well as mobs of Pakistanis beating people who do things like throw business cards away that just happen to have "Muhammad" written on them.

[struggle4progress]

2. Unfortunately, State Department reports tend to be skewed somewhat

by political considerations, so they really don't provide a good impartial database for such investigations

[nalnn]

3. Apparently

These researchers trusted the sources enough to use them. Of course, it could've been to a lack of options. I wonder what else exists that tracks this kind of information.