Religious segregation
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Religious segregation involves the separation of people on the basis of religion, either explicity, as in the Muslim world, or implicitly, as in Northern Ireland, particularly between 1922 amd 1972.
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Muslim world
Religious segregation occurs in the Muslim world, where some nations deny non-Muslims, including Jews and Christians, some of the civil rights and voting privileges they grant to Muslims. Many Muslim countries consign non-Muslim monotheists to the status of dhimmis, both officially and by custom. Saudi Arabia in particular is notorious for very stringent religious laws banning the practice of non-Muslim religions, even prescribing imprisonment and the death penalty for attempting to convert Muslims to other religions.
The following links are to articles about discrimination against non-Muslims in
Northern Ireland
Many Irish nationalists and republicans have described Northern Ireland as being a gerrymandered or even apartheid state, on the grounds that it was created to ensure a built-in Protestant minority, resulting in discrimination against Catholics in government, education, housing and employment. One legacy of this has been that most state schools in Northern Ireland are either Protestant or Catholic, although there now also a number of integrated schools. This has often exacerbated religious, political and cultural differences between the two comunities.
Between 1922 and 1972, Northern Ireland was governed by the Parliament of Northern Ireland, which was Protestant-dominated, while at local government level, electoral boundaries were devised to create Protestant majorities. The outbreak of the Troubles led to the imposition of direct rule by the British government, which has since sought to introduce power sharing between unionists and nationalists.
See also
External links to articles about discrimination in the Muslim world
- Links to articles on apartheid in the Arab Muslim world (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%2B%22Islamic+apartheid%22+OR+%22arab+apartheid%22+OR+%22Muslim+apartheid%22)
- Dhimmi.Com: Victims of Muslim Religious Apartheid (http://www.dhimmi.com)
- religious apartheid in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (http://www.saudiinstitute.org/najran.htm)
- Allegations of apartheid (http://www.shianews.com/hi/americas/news_id/0000232.php)
- Directory of the Saudi Institute gives testimony to US House of Representatives on religious apartheid in Saudi Arabia (http://www.house.gov/lantos/caucus/TestimonyAhmed060402.htm)