The infamous Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the Taliban's ruthless religious enforcement agency, was never properly abolished: it has merely lost its ministerial status and is now known as the Department of Islamic Instruction.

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But Bahrul Hayat, secretary general of Indonesia's Religious Affairs Ministry, told the Associated Press news agency that a government survey from last year showed that religious harmony in the country was strong.

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Moreover, Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act allows religious objectors opposed to joining a union to direct all money they would normally pay in union dues or agency fees to a non-religious charity of their choice.

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