Experts: Persecution of Religious Minorities Threatens Global Security

Experts say growing impunity for perpetrators of religious persecution threatens to undo global security.

In a Wednesday panel discussion titled, “Minority Religious Communities at Risk,” a congressmen, former U.S. ambassadors, and human rights experts discussed how religious minorities worldwide as well as the societies they live in are unstable because national governments fail to punish perpetrators of violent sectarian attacks.

They also criticized the U.S. for its complacency in dealing with religious persecution, and blamed political correctness for binding the hands of the Obama administration.

Dr. Thomas Farr, a former U.S. ambassador and the chair of the International Religious Freedom task force at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, N.J., makes the case that America has a vested interest in global religious liberty for the sake of its own national security.

He notes, however, "The United States have done a very poor job in addressing this issue for a long time."

Farr mentioned that while other administrations have faltered on this issue, the Obama administration has done worse than its predecessors.

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