FREEDOM OF BELIEF AND THE RELATION BETWEEN CONSTITUTION AND THE ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY IN THE REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA

Muhammed IZETI

Abstract

Being part of the public sphere, religion and faith inevitably have meeting points with the state and its legal order, where it shouldbe noted that the history of a large number of legal institutions is permeated by the influence of religion since the issues ofsovereignty, in the contemporary issues of human rights, discrimination and coexistence and preservation of diversity ininternational integrations, or multicultural societies, religion and the legal order are intertwined and mutually determined and thisis so at different levels and in different aspects - both in terms of achieving the individual dimension of religious freedom, and interms of the legal status of religious communities and other religious associations as an expression of the collective dimension ofreligious freedom, from the general pattern of relations to the details of that relation in "the various points of relationship" betweenreligion and public order, such as public holidays, the autonomous legal order of the religious traditions, its application andprotection, the education system, public broadcasting, the use and protection of religious symbols, worship in public places, theconstruction of cult objects, the oaths of public servants, the promotion and protection of religious heritage where many of theseissues regulate or the autonomous legal order of religious communities, or the law of state religion, or the law of religiouscommunities understood as a legal branch of the state legal order that includes norms that regulate relations between the state andreligious communities.In this statement freedom of belief and the mutual relationship between the constitutional legal framework and the IslamicReligious Community in the Republic of North Macedonia will be analyzed.

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