SMC No. 1/2014 etc 26 anything be taken from them: neither furnishings nor crucifixes or money. They will not be forced away from their religion, or harmed because of it. They will not be occupied by the Jewish settlers in Illiya.12” 29. One of the foundational aims of all the major religions in the world has been to eradicate this bias and to preach humanism. However, in practice on account of misinterpretation of some of the religious tenets, religion instead of liberating human beings from these curses of bias have enslaved them which has resulted in violence and human misery. Governments and parliaments in almost all modern democracies have endeavored to undo the injustices done to the minorities in the past. 30. In 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court in the case reported as Brown Vs. Board of Education of Topeka (347 US 483 (1954) abolished segregation in schools and ensured implementation of its judgment by directing the dispatch of federal troops to the concerned State. In the said judgment, the U.S. Supreme Court came a long way from its earlier judgment in Dred Scott Vs. Sandford (60 U.S. 393 (1857) where a colored was refused a status of a citizen. In not too distant past, the country elected a colored as its President i.e. Mr. Barack Hussein Obama. 31. In Canada only last month, the Parliament of British Colombia had to pass a resolution of apology for discrimination and injustices meted out to Chinese immigrants. The daily ‘Globe and Mail’ editorially commented on this development and said:“It continues to be shocking that, as recently as 1947, there was explicit institutional racism against Chinese immigrants to Canada. 12 Tabari, Tarirk al-Tabari, vol 3, p.159