Talk:Religious persecution

Edits and Continuing Issues
I made a numebr of edits to improve the (terrible) prose throughout this article, as well as to eliminate some stuff that was clearly OR and/or POV. Much can be done to continue to improve this article: I might come back to this soon, but anyone who wants to pitch in is very welcome... DigitalHoodoo (talk) 19:14, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
 * More examples of modern persecution. An obviously POV blurb about the Ba'hai is the only example given post-18th Century? That is absurd.
 * Antisemitism ought to be mentioned somewhere. I get the argument that the holocaust was constructed as a racial persecution and not a religious one, but this is fundamentally BS... so much so that is tilts toward a denier/Nazi-apologist standpoint by accepting the Nazi's "racialization" of an ethnically diverse Jewish population living in Germany and occupied countries as biological or ethnographic fact, rather than as an invention of antisemitic/Nazi ideology and propaganda (e.g., many Jews who were killed were, for example, ethnic Germans; characterizing Jews as a homogeneous 'race' is an invention of antisemitic rhetoric).
 * What about the suppression of African religion during the slave trade? There are numerous RSs that describe forcible conversion and persecution of traditional African religion on plantations and in the colonies.
 * What about the active persecution of Native American religion at the hands of the US Government (e.g. as manifest through the boarding school system)? This is also well-documented, and RSs should be available in tons.
 * Many, many more...


 * Just curious- what about the suppression of African religion during the Arablic Slave Trade, a few hundred years before the Europeans even entered the trade? 2600:8805:A985:4300:2A53:D050:31FF:B0AE (talk) 15:43, 9 October 2023 (UTC)


 * The complete absence of even mentioning the oppression and persecutions of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) in the 19th century is egregious. It is one of the only examples of state-sanctioned persecution in United States history. I would argue it was one of the most oppressed religions in US history. --Moroni713 (talk) 21:42, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Well, complete absence from the text. And, yes, it definitely belongs either under Christianity or as a separate section. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 13:06, 8 December 2023 (UTC)