Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2020
The nature of a government’s relationship with the majority religion, in this case Islam, is a significant factor in understanding government-based religious discrimination (GRD). As I show in subsequent chapters, this is also true of other groupings of states, but this relationship is arguably most pronounced in Muslim-majority states. My focus on this factor is not intended to deny the influence of other factors such as societal religious discrimination (SRD), which I also address in this chapter. Rather, I intend to emphasize the importance of this factor in this segment of the world’s countries due to its significant explanatory value.
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