Editing Persecution of Muslims (section)

===Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth===
{{Main|Lipka Tatars|Grand Duchy of Lithuania}}
{{See also|Lipka Rebellion}}
The [[Lipka Tatars]], also known as Polish Tatars or Lithuanian Tatars, were a community of Tatar Muslims who migrated into the [[Grand Duchy of Lithuania]] and became [[Polonized]].

The [[Counter-Reformation]] of the [[Catholic Church]] in the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] led to persecution of Muslims, [[Jews in Poland|Jews]], and [[Eastern Orthodox|Orthodox Christians]]. The ways the Muslims were persecuted included banning the repair of old mosques and preventing new ones from being constructed, banning [[serfdom]] of Christians under Muslims, banning marriage of Christian females to Muslims, putting limitations on property ownership among Tatars and the [[Polish–Ottoman Wars]] fed into the discriminatory atmosphere against them and led to anti-Islamic writings and attacks.<ref name="Akiner2009">{{cite book |first=Shirin |last=Akiner |title=Religious Language of a Belarusian Tatar Kitab: A Cultural Monument of Islam in Europe: with a Latin-script Transliteration of the British Library Tatar Belarusian Kitab (OR 13020) on CD-ROM |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FEJ7F2cmCt0C&pg=PA53 |year=2009 |publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag |isbn=978-3447030274 |pages=53–54}}</ref>