但是，鉴于哈萨克斯坦处于伊斯兰动荡新月的边缘，正是其从其苏联历史继承下来的强大世俗传统以及很大的欧洲基督教少数人口(占其1520万人口的大约40 % ) 才让它成为一个西方想要鼓励的社会。
But it is Kazakhstan’s strong secular tradition, inherited from its Soviet past, and a very large European Christian minority (approximately 40% of its 15.2 million people) that make it a society that the West needs to encourage, given the Islamic arc of instability upon which it sits.