Freedom of Religion
Saudi Arabia is an Islamic theocracy, without protections on the rights of minorities to practice freedom of religion. Non-Muslim propagation is banned, and conversion from Islam to another religion is punishable by death as apostasy.
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Famous quotes containing the words freedom of, freedom and/or religion:
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—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)
“The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“Religion is this. They act as in religion that is to say they neither wait nor stay away. Religion is best as it is. If they like it at all they like it all, not only more than once but often.”
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