State Religious Faith and Security Issues

Religious issues are connected with the security of a countryregion and beyond. If they are not managed carefullythere exist the possibility of their conversion into a risk and threat for security. This is the casebecause radicalization of religious faiths has often led to inter-religious and inter-ethnic hatred crimes against human kindgenocide or terrorist actsbecoming therefore a serious threat even for the regional and global security.Srebrenica assacresprevious Afghanistan under the Taliban regimetoday’s ISISas well as the tendency toward the radicalization of the Balkan Islamare very valid proofs of this. That is the reason why religious issues must not be left out of the society’s attention.The regulation body of all of these problems must be the state.It must not simply serve as a neutral guarantor for the freedom of religious faiths as it has already happened up to now in many democratic countriesbut rather act as a promoter of these freedoms. The staterespecting the Universal Declaration and European Convention for Human Rights and valuing the importance of such problems for the national security must pass from “passive neutrality” toward “active secularism.