Mohammed A. Bastanipour v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

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• holding that it was inappropriate to question a claimed conversion from Islam to Christianity when there was no reason to question the applicant’s sincerity and when apostasy was itself an offense under Islam
• reaching the unassailable conclusion that prosecution under law against apostasy is \on account of \ religion
• requiring that the group be “relatively homogenous”
• requiring that the group be “relatively homogenous”
• “[W]e have no doubt that drug traffickers are not the sort of Page 274 Cite as 29 I&N Dec. 269 (BIA 2025) Interim Decision #4133 ‘particular social group’ to which the provision on asylum refers.”
• distinguishing persecution from “mere discrimination or harassment”

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