Using the rhetoric of the First Amendment, a string of US Supreme Court cases has allowed members of some religious groups to limit the freedoms of other Americans.
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The changes wrought by the new conservative majority in the US Supreme Court are revolutionary.
The recent push in Ohio to pass a constitutional amendment was seen as a move to curb abortion rights. It failed. Two scholars say the ballot measure was really about minority rights in a democracy.
The increase in terror attacks has complicated the Kenyan government’s relationship with the country’s Muslim community.
A scholar of Islam writes about how widespread authoritarianism in the Muslim world shapes governments’ foreign policy toward Muslim minorities abroad.
The Supreme Court is a leading player in enacting policy in the US. But it has no army to enforce its decisions; its authority rests solely on its legitimacy.
The International Court of Justice ordered Myanmar to protect its Rohingya minority and preserve any evidence relevant to the genocide charges against it. But compliance is not guaranteed.
When police sprayed Kowloon Mosque with blue dye during protests, the people of Hong Kong rallied again to help clean it up.
Citizens voting directly on policy seems like a good idea. But that led to the Brexit mess in the UK. In the US, two scholars say direct democracy deepens distrust of politics and government.
While few would deny secularism and religious neutrality are legitimate goals, they don’t justify Bill 21’s undue restriction of minority rights.
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Professor & Chair of Political Science; Director of the Center for Public Opinion, UMass Lowell
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Professor, Public Policy and Administration, California State University, Sacramento
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Professor of Political Science, Director of Center for Islamic & Arabic Studies, San Diego State University
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Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences, The Education University of Hong Kong
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Professor of International Law, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University
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Professor of Political Science, University of Tennessee
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Dean of Economics, Politics & History, The University of Austin
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Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan
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SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Moi University
