Editing Religious discrimination (section)

===Modern===
[[File:Le Dragon missionnaire.jpg|right|thumb|Protestant political cartoon satirising the ''[[Dragonnades]]'' in France]]
In [[early modern Europe]], there was a religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants taking place in many countries. In [[early modern Britain]], the [[Act of Uniformity 1548]] compelled the [[Church of England]] to use only the [[Book of Common Prayer]] for its liturgy. There were several other Acts of Uniformity as the conflict continued well into the 19th century.<ref name=hooker>''The Works of Richard Hooker'', II, p. 485; quoted after: John Coffey (2000)</ref> When [[Catholic Church|Catholicism]] became the sole compulsory religion in [[early modern France]] during the reign of [[Louis XIV]], the [[Huguenot]]s had to leave the country en masse.<ref name="hooker"/>

The [[Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652]] barred Catholics from most public offices and confiscated large amounts of their land, much of which was [[Plantations of Ireland#Cromwellian land confiscation (1652)|given to Protestant settlers]].<ref>John Morley, Biography of Oliver Cromwell. Page 298. 1900 and 2001. {{ISBN|978-1-4212-6707-4}}.; {{cite web|url=http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/civilwar/g5/cs2/s4/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=25 May 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928062053/http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/civilwar/g5/cs2/s4/ |archive-date=28 September 2007 }} British National Archives web site. Accessed March 2007; {{cite web|url=http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/military/1649-52-cromwell-ireland.htm |title=1649-52: Cromwell's conquest of Ireland |access-date=17 January 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041211163740/http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/military/1649-52-cromwell-ireland.htm |archive-date=11 December 2004 }} From a history site dedicated to the English Civil War. "...&nbsp;making Cromwell's name into one of the most hated in Irish history". Accessed March 2007. Site currently offline. WayBack Machine holds archive here</ref> 

During the decline of the Ottoman Empire in the late modern period, particularly ever since the [[Great Turkish War]] (1683), discrimination against religious minorities worsened. The destruction of churches and the expulsion of local Christian communities became commonplace.<ref name=pavlowitch>{{Cite book|last=Pavlowitch|first=Stevan K.|author-link=Stevan K. Pavlowitch|title=Serbia: The History behind the Name|year=2002|location=London|publisher=Hurst & Company|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w-RuLDaNwbMC|isbn=9781850654773}}</ref> Tolerance policies were abandoned in Ottoman Albania, in favor of [[Islamization of Albania|reducing the size of Albania's Catholic population through Islamization]].<ref>Zhelyazkova, Antonina. ‘'Albanian Identities'’. Sofia, 2000: International Center for Minority Studies and Intercultural Relations. pp. 15-16</ref>

[[Antisemitism in the Russian Empire]] was widespread, as Imperial Russia contained the world's largest Jewish population at the time. Jews were subject to discriminatory laws such as the [[May Laws]] (1882), which restricted them from certain locations, jobs, transactions, schools, and political positions.<ref>{{cite book |last=Singer |first=Isidore |author-link= |date=1901 |title=Jewish Encyclopedia |url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=289&letter=M |location=New York |publisher=Funk & Wagnalls |page= |isbn=}}</ref> They were also targeted in frequent anti-Jewish riots, called [[pogrom]]s.