ABSTRACT
Matti Jutila challenges the notion that desecuritizing strategies involving minority groups necessarily involve undermining their collective basis for claims-making. Her framework shifts the focus from the process of securitization to one of the components making securitization possible, namely, the "exclusive narratives of identities and political communities". Hence, following Jutila, the author believe that the specter of securitization need not demand a fundamental re-thinking or altering of the basic ontologies that underlie the liberal democratic state. The safeguarding of individual autonomy, the guarantee of religious free exercise, and the protection from religious establishment are far too precious goods to sacrifice in the face of fear and trepidation. However, not all speech acts about security qualify as "securitization". On the point of religion, there are three main scenarios where one might see religion, secularism, and securitization processes meet. Finally, faith may be seen as threatened by another religious discourse or actor.
