Religious Discrimination in Modern Society

Religious oppression, persecution… The noun is related to persecute which comes from Latin persecute meaning “followed with hostility” persecution means hassling or singling out a person, or group, because of race, religion, or sexual orientation, gender, or social status to persecute.

The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provides citizens the liberty to practice religion free from government intervention, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 have taken that freedom from those who practice religion. This act prevents businesses from practicing their religion publicly. Discriminating the practice of someone’s religion is an intolerance to their beliefs. Religion is popularly viewed as an unequal identifier when compared to their race, gender, and/or sexual orientation. This is the result of a narrow-minded society that beliefs religion is a means to discriminate

Not to be misunderstood, religious oppression is an undeniable reality in my country. But for us, the affluent youth, its manifestation is limited only to obscure articles and the occasional news coverage. If

Religious beliefs are an important aspect of many people’s lives. Results of the latest national census have revealed the religiously diverse nation that Australia has become (ABS 2017). The religious makeup of Australia has gradually changed over the past 50 years with Hinduism, Sikhism, Islam and Buddhism all increasingly common beliefs as can be seen in figure 1.

The article called Religion, Meaning and Prejudice was written by Bruce Hunsberger and Lynne M. Jackson and published in 2005. The purpose of this article is to analyze the links between religion and prejudice that have been interpreted to suggest that religion can both reduce and exacerbate prejudice and to provide an analysis of religion as a meaning system that illustrates how religion can affect intergroup attitudes. The target population the article is geared towards other psychologists. The article begins with the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington D.C. on September 11, 2001 and how people were affected while trying to understand what happened that day. The role of religion- based

Being a Muslim in America country is a struggle, and ever since 9/11, things have taken a turn for Muslims. When Trump was elected president, the discrimination against Muslims has grown stronger. People need to be educated about Muslim culture and eliminate the perception that every Muslim is a “terrorist.” The community I am looking towards on the University of Kentucky campus is the MSA. The MSA is the Muslim Student Association and their goal is to promote Islam and teach us all about the peaceful nature of the religion. Throughout my paper these 5 sources that I researched played a major role in the Muslim community. My first source was a video called Muslim leaders speak out after mosque fire. My second source was an article called Young

Discrimination is defined as negative attitudes or behavior between people with differences. Frequently, opponents label each other with spiteful words. However religious discrimination can lead to violence. Many times religious discrimination can cause judgment during employment, limited educational opportunities, and restrictive social interaction. Throughout the centuries, Judaism, Catholicism, and Islam have been negatively persecuted by numerous communities. Religious discrimination has impeded the right and ability of Jews’, Catholics’, and Muslims’ to practice freedom of religion rights worldwide. One of the most horrific examples of discrimination resulted from discrimination against Jews, and was called The Holocaust. Catholics

Generally people or groups become stigmatized when they are singled out from their communities or their social environments. Being stigmatic is not a way to win over moral acceptance. When individuals are “set out” or even profiled they often feel as if they have been uprooted and a subject of discrimination. Which makes them loose faith in there government. Moral repercussions like this effect individuals and communities as a whole and can have serious and negative impacts when groups or individuals speak out and acknowledge the discrimination. This can lead to social or cultural tensions within a governed body.

Due to being discriminated some jobs will not hire people because of their religion. In my opinion this is a real problem, you cannot judge a person based on their religion. Many people of different religions have fled from places that discriminate them only to find more people judging them where they go next. I have experienced this a couple of

Workplaces must make reasonable religious accommodations for their employees. While this calls into the question the definition of “reasonable,” I believe that a codified agreement in an employment contract would suffice. As such, accommodations must be discussed before an actual contract is signed. This ensures that both sides are aware of the accommodations and that the general course of business in the workplace is not impeded.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints- more commonly known as The Mormon church, has always received a bad reputation when it comes to discrimation. Since the early 1900’s, the church, some due to the events in the outside world, made mistakes while growing into the church it is today. One of the major issues that society has with the church is how selective the church was in the past and is today to the members of the church, though the members have accepted it fully, and do not oppose it. Today, society widely dislikes- and almost fears- the church and how it works today, just as much as they did almost one hundred years ago, because of those mistakes and rules due to revelation and doctrine in the church.

Although many organizations forbid religious express, it is almost impossible to stop an employee from thinking about their religious commitments (Hick, 2003). Understanding how individuals are influenced by their religion and how that affects the work environment is vital for leaders to avoid conflict within the workplace. In higher education, practicing religious pluralism at work is essential because of the diverse groups of people that are involved in the higher education workforce.

France has recently been enforcing their ban of full-face veils in public places. The government claims it is for public safety, however, others feel it is the result of “Islamophobia”. Regardless of their reasoning, they are infringing on basic human rights. Most people believe that the ability to worship as they choose is a right given to them, not by any government, but by their deity. However in Venissieux, France a ban on the wearing of full veils in public places was formalized on April 15th, 2011. Thus, making it the first European country to violate what is, to some Muslims, an important religious conviction. Although the police cannot legally remove full veils, they are encouraged to punish those who continue to wear them with fines or required citizenship lessons. The new laws are a direct attack on Islamic culture, allowing the French government to strip its citizens of their history, their identity, and worst of all, of their ability to worship as their scriptures tells them to.

Why is religious persecution becoming so big lately? Since ISIS has come about the number of people being persecuted for their religion has skyrocketed. The extremist group ISIS is an anti-Semitic group of people. That target Christians, Jews, and other religions. The terrorist group believe that by killing they will receive life.

There is discrimination everywhere at anytime, anywhere in the world. Discrimination can occur in many ways due to different opinions and perspectives. One of them occurs by religion of different people. Religious discrimination is to treat someone differently with others in a bad way due to their religion or beliefs.There are lots of religious discrimination around the world. People should be against religious discrimination because it keeps people from harassment on their religious beliefs, prevent less wars happening, and people will correct their stereotypes on others.