Human Rights in an Islamic State :Freedom of Conscience and Conviction

8. Freedom of Conscience and Conviction: Islam has laid down the injunction: There should be no coercion in the matter of faith.

On the contrary totalitarian societies totally deprive the individuals of their freedom.  Indeed this undue exaltation of the state authority curiously enough postulates a sort of servitude, of slavishness on the part of man.  At one time slavery meant total control of man over man - now that type of slavery has been legally abolished but in its place totalitarian societies impose a similar sort of control over individuals.