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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
Does this reflect your personal experience ?
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @09:01PM (3 children)
Log in please, we'd like to see who has the massive persecuted white male complex.
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Thursday April 20 2017, @09:39PM (2 children)
Can't claim GP comment as mine but frankly fuck you. How the fuck is a pin prick worse than amputating an entire organ?
Oh, oh, oh, a clitoris that's forced to be an external organ is just soooooo awful! It's sooooooo awful! A Hunny got hurt!
Because the glans is a totally different organ that god meant to be an external organ, just he was drunk a put a clitoral hood, er, foreskin over it by accident, right?
Intact bodies are something only women deserve? Fuck you.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday April 20 2017, @11:38PM
This coming from an MtF is hilarious.
So, how about this?: NO ONE HARMS OUR BABIES' GENITALIA, MALE OR FEMALE. Sounds weird coming from a lesbian feminist, maybe? I don't care. All our babies are precious and harming any of them for any superstitious reason is societal insanity. We're failing our boys, too, as a society.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @03:36AM
Weird weird weeeird response. Why can't we just say that genital mutilation is wrong whether male or female? As an intact male I can tell you that the foreskin is way less sensitive than the head, and I don't have a clitoris so I can't comment but being a major erogenous zone I would expect even minor pinprick could be quite painful. Also, as an intact male I can tell you that when the head is exposed it can be VERY sensitive. So I imagine a clitoris is the same way and once it is exposed it probably takes a while for any contact to stop hurting.
You are way out there Kurenai, I've seen you get angry at people with little provocation, but to take what I said as condemning only female mutilation? You should really work on your reactionary behavior, if you're doing it online to this degree it probably comes out in real life as well and it is not ok.
My more cynical side imagines that you are a fictional persona used to troll liberals by being an "untouchable" that can spout hatred that liberals (or whatever) won't push back against. Well, either way, FUCK YOU for trying to project that bullshit on to me.