This assumption is reinforced in my data. Therefore, human rights violations are acceptable if they are seen as serving a higher purpose. For countries with an Islamic majority, this is evident in the overall lower levels of human rights. This is due the nature of the analyses. The multivariate analysis correlates each independent variable to each dependent variable while controlling for all other dependent variables.
Diversity is most likely too wide a variable to adequately explain differences in human rights.
It includes ethnic, linguistic, and religious factors in its measurement. Because the level of human rights in a country is primarily based on structural factors, it would be difficult and time consuming to affect the level of human rights in a country by changing the independent variables studied here. For example, overthrowing a military regime and replacing it with a democratic government is a somewhat difficult and ethically shady task. It would also be impractical and genocidal to suggest lowering the percentage of Muslims in a given country. Nor is there an easy way to immediately raise a country s gross domestic product.