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Government restrictions on religion and social hostilities involving religion increased in 2015 for the first time in three years, according to Pew Research Center's latest annual study on global restrictions on religion.
The share of countries with "high" or "very high" levels of government restrictions – i.e., laws, policies and actions that restrict religious beliefs and practices – ticked up from 24% in 2014 to 25% in 2015. Meanwhile, the percentage of countries with high or very high levels of social hostilities – i.e., acts of religious hostility by private individuals, organizations or groups in society – increased in 2015, from 23% to 27%. Both of these increases follow two years of declines in the percentage of countries with high levels of restrictions on religion by these measures.
Among the world's 25 most populous countries, Russia, Egypt, India, Pakistan and Nigeria had the highest overall levels of government restrictions and social hostilities involving religion. Egypt had the highest levels of government restrictions in 2015, while Nigeria had the highest levels of social hostilities.
Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @03:41PM
You cannot help but come to the conclusion that it is already illegal. It just so happens that the law is only as good as its enforcers, and the enforcers are all circumcised or afraid of being called "anti-Semitic".
Of course, it is possible for the law to be contradictory; for instance, a German judge concluded that the circumcision of a minor is illegal in Germany according to national and international law, but the German legislation process quickly made it legal.