One way of appreciating the rich tradition of religious liberty is to understand how religious communities enjoy religious freedom and why they feel called to protect it.
Source/Credit: Common Ground News Service
By Holly Hollman and Hoda Elshishtawy | 25 June 2013
Washington, DC – Americans face many challenges that threaten to undermine their obligation to protect religious pluralism and the rights of fellow citizens. Earlier this month in Tennessee, for example, a program on public discourse designed to answer questions about Islam was continuously disrupted by protesters and hecklers, some of whom claimed that Islam is evil.
Yet we should not diminish what has been called “the most successful experiment in religious liberty the world has ever known” – the United States of America. Whatever challenges we face, the two of us, from a Baptist organisation and a Muslim organisation respectively, agree that protecting religious liberty is paramount. Protection of religious liberty requires careful attention to upholding the principles enshrined in the First Amendment of the US Constitution, which guard the right to practice one’s faith without government interference.
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