Siva Vaidhyanathan argues political theology and political liberalism aren’t exclusively Eastern or Western:

Now, I think the enlightenment is a great thing. And I keep waiting for it to show up and triumph here in the United States. I just don’t see how one can claim that what Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad derides as “liberalism and Western-style democracy” has dominated anywhere for any significant period of time. [...] I, for one, am not “puzzled” by cries of theological radicalism from Iran or Saudi Arabia. I have heard them in this country for years. Spend some time in any conservative Baptist church in Texas and you will here the code words, if not the outright proclamations, of political theology. This is not just theologically infused politics like one hears from Barack Obama or Jimmy Carter. This is hard-core millenarianism. [...] And, of course, it is the chosen lens through which George W. Bush views the world. That’s why Ahmadinejad reached out to him with a letter. He knew that Bush would “get it.”