Articles and explanations of why I have chosen them.

‘In the United Kingdom "Jack Straw MP, leader of the House of Commons and a former Home and Foreign Secretary, commented that he felt uncomfortable talking to women at his constituency surgery who wore the Muslim veil sparked a storm of intense". Mainly, this debate has been raised by the most European Countries in educational institutions. Especially in France, there was a debate because of the prohibition on schoolchildren wearing the Islamic headscarves and on the 15th March a law for this prohibition has been adopted. More specifically, the Islamic dress code issue was dealt by the ECtHR and the ECmHR many times since the controversy began.’ http://www.lawteacher.net/human-rights/essays/freedom-of-religion-in-general.php

This is part of an article which highlights the difficulties that people can face when they are brought up to a specific religion/choose a specific religion. In particular women who chose to wear the Muslim veil (Hijab) receive a lot of stereotyping and abuse from others. This involves people calling them abusing and hurtful names such as ‘Letterboxes’ and has even lead to such events where Young people have thrown letters at them (newspaper reports) and had the names shouted at them (personal experience). Image from: http://0.tqn.com/d/worldnews/1/0/U/J/-/-/102999014.jpg

Religious abuse refers to any abuse that is administered under the guise of religion and can include psychological trauma, harassment or humiliation. Abuse can also include misuse of religion for selfish, secular, or ideological ends such as abuse of a clerical position to perpetrate abuse.                 One specific meaning of the term "religious abuse" refers to psychological harm or manipulation inflicted on a person by using teachings or doctrines of that person’s religion. This is perpetrated by members of the same or similar faith, and includes the use of a position of authority within the religion over another person to inflict such harm. It is most prevalently directed at children and emotionally vulnerable adults, and motivations behind such abuse vary, but can be either well-intentioned or malicious. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_abuse

This quote from Wikipedia highlights the importance of realisation that people who are religious get bullied / abused specifically because of their religion. It also highlights that the people who abuse those who are in a religion think that because the person has chosen to be in that religion that they deserve the abuse and bullying and that they will automatically be okay with it and it will not affect them in any way, let alone psychologically.