• DMBFFF@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    wp:Human rights in the Maldives

    The constitution declares Islam as the state religion of the Maldives and states that all Maldivian nationals are required to be Sunni Muslims.[13] It is illegal in the country to proselytize any religion other than Islam, and advocate for secularism or the separation of church and state. Apostasy and atheism are also outlawed and those who identify as or accused of being apostates or atheists are punishable by death by Maldivian law (though unenforced) and are often subject to vigilante violence or attacks with little or no consequences for perpetrators by the authorities.

    Defamation and Speech “contrary to the tenets of Islam” is illegal.

    As the state partially practices Sharia law in some matters, homosexuality is illegal. The punishment for men is nine months to one year imprisonment, or 10 to 30 lashes. The punishment for women is nine months to one year of house arrest.[3]

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        This is Lemmy: the Shariah law as practiced by the Maldives doesn’t apply here,

        nor did the Maldives fight a war for its very existence on the first day of its independence.

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          Maybe shouldn’t try to create a country on someone else’s land? Refugees are supposed to assimilate into the culture, not create a separate ethnostate and expel the natives.