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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: 2) by Grishnakh on Thursday April 20 2017, @04:56PM (2 children)
The simple solution to the problem you see is separation: let the people who want nationalism, theocracy, dictatorships, etc. have their own nation, and stop bothering the rest of us. To do this, we need to work on splitting apart nations so that those people can have a large majority in their own districts, and then a minority in other districts.
So, for instance, if we could have kicked the South out of the US before the 2016 elections, Bernie would probably have won the primaries (Hillary had really strong support in the South), and there's no way Trump would have won the general.
Over in the UK, Scotland and Northern Ireland need to leave the UK and rejoin the EU separately (Northern Ireland might want to just rejoin regular Ireland). London should also secede from England, and form a separate city-state, and rejoin the EU. They can even have a direct rail line under the Channel going straight to London so that no border checks are necessary between them and the continent, only if they leave the city.
Eventually, as the idiots either die off or see the error of their ways (as their economies turn 3rd-world), they might be allowed to rejoin, but under special conditions with lesser rights and privileges.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday April 20 2017, @11:53PM
Well, it was ol' Abe Lincoln who insisted on keeping the South in the Union. I always say the Union lost that war...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday April 21 2017, @04:15AM
It's already possible to vote against stupidity of government or your peers. It's called feet voting. No need to wait for next ballot or argue the case, just do it and let other suffer their implicit choices.