Blasphemy-style reforms enable spurious prosecutions and personal vendettas
Evidence
As Saadia Toor notes, these reforms also resulted in the erosion of minority rights, with spurious prosecutions and personal vendettas being played out against anyone who it could be suggested was showing disrespect to Islam and its prophet (State of Islam, 6). — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 868
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Echoes the reader’s theme of how identity policing metastasizes; parallel to the religious-state dynamics behind sectarian targeting.