To isolate rather than destroy. To allow worship…and nothing else. Sound familiar?

To Isolate and Marginalize: Obama takes Cue from Castro

by Christian Tappe

A 1960 article by London Observer correspondent George Sherman (here printed in the August 6, 1960, edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) details Fidel Castro’s strategy for the Church just a year after he became Prime Minister:

“The Castro government has moved carefully so as not to gain the Church sympathy it does not have. The aim is to isolate rather than destroy. While upholding the right to worship, the Government has clamped down on all the Church’s outlets in secular society.”

http://www.crisismagazine.com/2012/to-isolate-and-whither-obama-takes-cue-from-castro