Knowledge is based on forgetting.
Once the case gathered momentum, there was no turning back.Iran's Jewish leaders reject the claim made by Jewish groups abroad that the case is based on religious persecution.
An asylum officer then tries to establish if their request is based on a fear of persecution based on race, religion, nationality, political beliefs or membership of a particular group, including a gang.
The strict U.S. immigration policy is based on the premise that the majority of Haitians fleeing the country are running from poverty rather than political persecution.
Bitcoin is based on cryptography.
eBay is based on honesty.
This was the one great American city dating from the 17th century not founded as a haven from religious persecution; it was based on profit rather than salvation.
Clearly in Trajan's time the Roman government did not yet have (and, indeed, was not to have for another century) any policy of persecution of the Christians; official action was based on the need to maintain good order, not on religious hostility.
