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Excerpt from Religious Persecution: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on International Security, International Organizations, and Human Rights of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First and Second Sessions; Oct. 28, 1993 and March 9, 1994
So, refusing to legally recognize a person's change in religious status puts the person into an untenable condition of being a non person. Also, there are problems related to being a female apostate, someone who has chosen to leave Islam and embrace another reli gion. They are prohibited from marrying Islamic men. Children born to a marriage of two apostates are considered to be Muslim under the eyes of the law and, in fact, cannot embrace the religion of their parents. There are also summary arrests and intimidation through social violence. All this is a contravention of the Inter national Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
