If there is one aspiration shared by all religious people worldwide, it is the desire to practice their religions freely and without hindrance or restriction. While many of these people may not feel that members of other religions should have this same right, this desire for the free exercise of religion is universal among the religious. Yet, as I discuss in more detail in Chapter 2, religious discrimination is ubiquitous against religious minorities. Thus, this yearning for religious freedom is far more often a dream than it is a reality for religious minorities.