I'm going to skip over your post Boingo, because those all deal with government institutions and that is a whole other topic for me.
Ummm, not sure what to say...thanks for at least acknowledging the post?
Out of curiosity, why does the involvement of government institutions exclude it from the belief persecution thread? Are you implying that government doesn't do that kind of persecution or, perhaps, they persecute all kinds of things so....?
Heh. In your post you were curious what other people thought of those news bits, and I just wanted to unload some thoughts I had about this thread in general and didn't want to completely blow you off.
To answer your question: I don't think those institutions should exist in the first place, so whatever decisions they come to are a moot point.
To me, governments are criminal institutions, so it would be like discussing the Mafia boss's decision to whack one of his lackeys--a purely academic, and ultimately pointless debate.
@ratcharmer and Xinef
To the point I was trying to make: For a member of the majority opinion in a region to say they feel persecuted is very inconsiderate to the minorities in said region.
