What is Persecution of Muslims?
'''Persecution of Muslims''' is the [[religious persecution]] of [[Muslims]] ([[persecution]] based on their [[religion]]). This can mean any form of participating in [[discrimination]] against Muslims. This includes using [[violence]] against them or putting them in [[prison]]. Muslims were persecuted during the [[crusades]].<ref>''Crusaders and Muslims in Twelfth-Century Syria'', ed. Maya Shatzmiller (Leiden: Brill, 1993), pp. 110-11</ref> There was also persecution during the [[Mongols|Mongol]] invasion<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.islamicpopulation.com/asia/China/China_integration%20of%20religious%20minority.pdf|title=The Integration of Religious Minorities in China: The Case of Chinese Muslims|author=Donald Daniel Leslie|year=1998|page=12|publisher=The Fifty-ninth George Ernest Morrison Lecture in Ethnology|accessdate=30 November 2010}}</ref> and in the [[Iberian Peninsula]] when they were subject to the [[Inquisition]]s.<ref>L. P. Harvey, ''Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), p. 257</ref> Modern persecution of Muslims exists in many countries such as [[Myanmar]], [[Central African Republic]] and [[Serbia]]. [[Islam]] is a major religion and like other major religions they have suffered violent persecution.<ref>Brian J. Grim; Roger Finke, ''The Price of Freedom Denied: Religious Persecution and Conflict in the 21st Century'' (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011), p. x</ref> ==Related pages== * [[Religious persecution]] * [[Anti-Shi'ism]] == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:Islamophobia]] [[Category:Religious violence]] [[Category:Discrimination]] <br> {{religion-stub}}