The UN Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) recently issued a report on the global status of religious freedom. But instead of pointing out egregious religious oppression in places like China and Pakistan, the Special Rapporteur calls for governments to create “an enabling environment for pluralist and progressive self-understandings to be manifested…”
Religious freedom is inherent to us as people. It is a freedom with which no state, coercive non-state actor, or multilateral body such as the United Nations should interfere—it is not theirs to give or take away. Religious freedom must not be subverted to serve any particular political agenda.
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