What is religious intolerance?

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Broadly speaking, religious intolerance is behaviour that is unaccepting of any religious beliefs. It includes public declarations that some other religion is false and not acceptable, any action to restrict or limit the free worship of any religion, through to actual persecution of that religion or its adherents.

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