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For pro-democracy revolutions, democracy is not enough

By By Charles C. Haynes
Director, Religious Free

The revolutions sweeping across Northern Africa and the Middle East could mark the beginning of a historic advance for democratic freedom ? ranking in significance with such milestones of liberty as the American Revolution of 1776 and the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991. Or these upheavals could end with one tyranny replacing another, as happened after the French Revolution of 1789 and may yet occur in post-Soviet Russia. With protesters still filling the streets in Bahrain, Yemen and read more

Full post as published by First Amendment Center: Religious Liberty on February 24, 2011 (boomark / email).