Social Studies
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Introduction
Generally speaking, discrimination means unfair or disadvantageous treatment on the basis of a personal characteristic. Religious discrimination refers to a disadvantageous consideration or dissimilarity of people on the basis of their religious connection, their personal belief (or non-belief), their faith-based appearance or behaviour or their assumed religious attachment. Unfair treatment and aggression related to personal beliefs are unfortunately quite common in Europe and they are often produced by prejudice, especially towards religious minorities. From a legal point of view, defining the concept of religious discrimination is quite complex.
Religious discrimination is experienced through, for example, prejudice, unfair treatment, harassment or forms of violence based on a person’s religion or belief. In today’s European society we observe hate speech and religiously aggravated crimes, attacks on places of worship and violation of places like cemeteries, as well as anti-Semitic incidents, acts of violence and physical attacks against religious and racial minorities5. Some minority groups are also subject to racial and religious profiling and police misconduct towards them. Discrimination on grounds of religion or belief could also refer to differences in the treatment of a person in the enjoyment of her/his fundamental right to freedom of religion or belief.
Initially, I will give a brief definition of "religious belief" and "religious discrimination" and write afterwards about prohibitions regarding religious discrimination, reasonably accommodation of religious beliefs and practices, undue hardship, and about the question; * “Who is subject to what drawn religious discrimination into a problematic issue in the community or society? * Do national origin, race, colour, and religious discrimination intersect in some cases? * How does the law define religion / belief?
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Introduction
Generally speaking, discrimination means unfair or disadvantageous treatment on the basis of a personal characteristic. Religious discrimination refers to a disadvantageous consideration or dissimilarity of people on the basis of their religious connection, their personal belief (or non-belief), their faith-based appearance or behaviour or their assumed religious attachment. Unfair treatment and aggression related to personal beliefs are unfortunately quite common in Europe and they are often produced by prejudice, especially towards religious minorities. From a legal point of view, defining the concept of religious discrimination is quite complex.
Religious discrimination is experienced through, for example, prejudice, unfair treatment, harassment or forms of violence based on a person’s religion or belief. In today’s European society we observe hate speech and religiously aggravated crimes, attacks on places of worship and violation of places like cemeteries, as well as anti-Semitic incidents, acts of violence and physical attacks against religious and racial minorities5. Some minority groups are also subject to racial and religious profiling and police misconduct towards them. Discrimination on grounds of religion or belief could also refer to differences in the treatment of a person in the enjoyment of her/his fundamental right to freedom of religion or belief.
Initially, I will give a brief definition of "religious belief" and "religious discrimination" and write afterwards about prohibitions regarding religious discrimination, reasonably accommodation of religious beliefs and practices, undue hardship, and about the question; * “Who is subject to what drawn religious discrimination into a problematic issue in the community or society? * Do national origin, race, colour, and religious discrimination intersect in some cases? * How does the law define religion / belief?
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