this article isn't about religion it's about persecution whether an atrocity is founded in scripture or practice doesn't matter anyway in most religions scripture doesn't necessarily dictate religious practice that's not even the case with religions that have more literalist approaches to religious life such as islam many things muslims do as a practice of religion are outside of the qur'an i imagine the same is true for hinduism anyway we don't have the authority to go into that level of analysis if we had to contrast what a source says regarding what's 'religiously sanctioned' against actual scripture we'd be engaging in original research we'd be pretending that we're religious scholars i found a reliable source that said something and i edited accordingly because of all the wikilawyering here i'm having to almost quote my sources without violation copyright the source called it 'religiously sanctioned' and that's the phrase i used i'm open to any mediation btw if mediation leads to enforceable actions and presumes that wp policy actually matters