Edited sentence: In contrast to the legislatively-restrained police forces of secular democracies, Islamist religious police have broad and arbitrary discretionary powers of surveillance and entry to property, detention and interrogation of suspects, and, in some places, summary judgment and execution of punishment for perceived violations of Sharia.While nominally tasked with disciplining Muslims, in less-tolerant regimes such religious police invest themselves with the authority to harass and persecute non-Muslim dhimmi second-class citizens, "guest workers", and kafir or infidels into converting to Islam