The European Court of Human Rights found that Greece had violated Ibraim Serif’s religious freedom by convicting him for acting as a mufti supported by part of the Muslim community. The judgment rejected the assumption that authorities could resolve religious divisions simply by suppressing a rival religious leader. It is included as a struggle over Muslim collective autonomy and state recognition. The Court’s legal finding concerned Article 9, not a general declaration that Greece was Islamophobic.
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The Serif judgment required Greece to suppress every Muslim leader who lacked official state recognition.
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The European Court instead found a violation of Serif’s religious freedom arising from his conviction.