Religious Persecution and Discrimination

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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 have been denied presidential positions merely for being Catholic. Islams have been accused of being terrorists even though many are kind and loving people. The religious groups have all experienced many horrid incidents during which the people of these religions were detained from the right to freely practice religion.
Discrimination against Judaism limits Jews’ ability to practice freedom of religion. At one point in the nineteenth century, Jews were seen as a “‘race’, which not even baptism could change”. This notion led to the largest massacre that ever occurred on religious grounds. It is known as the massacre, or The Holocaust. It began when anti-Semites (people against the religion of Judaism) “used Jews as a screen to project their own anxieties” (“Anti-Semitism.” 1). The appalling thoughts spread and eventually reached Adolf Hitler, who wrote a book expressing his thoughts on Jews. The main point of his book was thought that Judaism should be exterminated (“Anti-Semitism.” 4). Many adap...

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