Blasphemy-style regulation enabled private vendettas under religious pretext

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

• XREF: A warning about how anti-blasphemy (or anti-Islamophobia) regimes can be weaponized for personal score-settling — an analytic edge for contestation vs reinforcement. — connects to: Muslims and Jews were equated as blasphemers to bar them from public office; Deception is religiously permissible to protect persecuted coreligionists; Terrorist groups and religious cults both regulate members’ sexuality to enforce control.