Our “systematic persecution of religious people within [our] borders” is largely untrue. Whilst lynches are regrettable, there is very little Aschlonian police can do, due to them very often being alerted to the incident near its end. Often even if they do arrive in time to potentially stop the event, they are unable to stop the situation due to the lynchers being ready to kill, and the police being unable to use lethal force, creating a situation where they risk their lives. Additionally, upon further investigation, most of these lynches are found to have few connections to religion.
When we banned pro-religious papers we did it in response to the NACG’s terrorist attack on the Tarc, which resulted in its destruction, the death of 36 men and women, three of which were Representatives. In order to hopefully prevent any attack like that again, we shut down many of the possible ways they could spread their extremist views. This unfortunately included shutting down radically religious newspapers.