Minority rights-based approaches to the protection and promotion of the rights of religious minorities 2013, para. 17
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Where patterns of violations against minorities are long established, there is a risk that the international community may view such tensions as intractable. This is particularly the case with religious minorities, the violations of whose rights may be considered an inevitable consequence of a particular State religion or State ideology. States with a shared State religion or ideology pattern may be blind to such violations, and other States may be reluctant to intervene. International human rights law needs to reclaim the full equality of religious minorities and not concede their human rights as part and parcel of particular power or demographic relations.