World Religion in Homeland Security
The relation between national security and religion has existed for quite some time now with a clear manifestation on how religious persecution and national security threats correlate. According to Inboden (2012), predicting what security threats the United States would face from the beginning of the 21st century would require consideration of a congressional testimony from a State Department official who could barely be understood. When we look back at the history of the wars that have been fought by the United States this correlation is seen to have started earlier than the 21st century since these wars have been against enemies that had total disregard of religious freedom. These included countries with varied religious and ideological practices including cultism, atheistic communism, orthodox nationalism, Baathism, Islamist theocracy, and Jihadism, yet all had the common characteristic of being hostile to religious freedom.
This relation therefore points to the fact that anyone who is in the career of homeland security should at least have an understanding of world religion to the extent that is possible. This is important because formulation of national security currently will take religion into account, though not many would want to openly talk about it. While this may be true, some people still believe that national security and religion are two different entities each addressing different elements. However, borrowing from Sun Tzu's (1971; 84) saying: "know the...
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