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Religious liberty as a moral center for American diplomacy

By Alliance Alert

Nathan Hitchen writing at Center for a Just Society: "Promoting religious liberty is at once less complex than democracy promotion and more to the point of America?s agenda. Middle Eastern regimes can make concessions to religious freedom without committing to elections that will disturb their ruling elites. As a moral center for American diplomacy, the call to religious liberty is a mutually inclusive value because it draws on the best of European, American, and Islamic history. Structuring the overall problem of the Middle East as a lack of a particular liberty rather than systemically flawed governments lowers the stakes for possible reform and improvement. Presenting religious liberty as the solution gives potential friends of America a more compelling moral reason to join her cause, and consequently opens a way to rehabilitate her badly entrenched reputation."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on April 06, 2010 (boomark / email).