Erdogan is clearly a threat to Turkish democracy and secularism.
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The cross violates French rules on secularism, the court said.
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General Zia tilted Pakistan sharply away from Jinnah's dreamy secularism.
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Sermons reflect Turkey's tilt from secularism to an assertive Islamism.
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Bids to then impose secularism by fiat had unintended consequences.
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Like the burkini ban before it, this isn't about protecting secularism.
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Mr Rahman's view highlights one of the paradoxes of rigorous secularism.
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Franklin Graham, the evangelist, inveigh against same-sex marriage and secularism.
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Ms. Jacoby writes frequently about the history of religion and secularism.
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Other Quebec governments have sought to enshrine secularism in the province.
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The country's vexed relationship with secularism also predates Mr. Erdogan's tenure.
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Protesters reckon that is an attack on the country's cherished secularism.
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On the contrary, she was defending democracy, secularism, judicial independence, human rights.
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Mr Abdel-Samad was briefly a Muslim Brother before converting to secularism.
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"State secularism is an institutional duty, not a personal one," he says.
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Then Quebeckers will find out whether the government is serious about secularism.
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A peer-reviewed journal, "Secularism and Nonreligion," is now up and running.
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Religion, Secularism, and the Redefinition of Democracy, Americans have long articulated their
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Four women recount how Quebec's new secularism law has changed their lives.
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He is unaffiliated with any party and has a reputation for secularism.
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In the years that followed, the notion of secularism became more abstract.
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But immigration, multiculturalism and intensifying secularism have helped to diminish its sway.
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Throughout the history of man, secularism has been the exception, not the rule.
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But France badly needs to work out how to marry secularism and liberty.
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When a subsequent military strongman dropped secularism, Sheikh Hasina campaigned to restore it.
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Extreme secularism in France looks no different to extreme Shia ideology in Iran.
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Secularism played an enormous role in eroding the grip of the Catholic Church.
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Two groups in particular took up the fight against secularism, Mr. Islam said.
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In a country officially committed to public secularism, this is an intriguing notion.
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Yet still the government is reluctant to speak up for secularism and tolerance.
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This vision of secularism creates tension with European ideals about tolerance and diversity.
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He accused "the forces of secularism" of orchestrating the "organized destruction" of religion.
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Xi&aposs understanding of the ideal Chinese citizen demands more homogeneity, more secularism.
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Wouldn't revising that law be an admission that secularism is bowing to Islamism?
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Laïcité is the nearly untranslatable word for the French brand of militant secularism.
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The country's constitution was founded on secularism but Islam is the official state religion.
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One is Turkey, whose founders chose the French model when imposing secularism (see article).
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Bans have been defended on the grounds that burkinis violate French principles of secularism.
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Prosperity, capitalism, secularism and feminism all tend to be found in the same places.
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It explicitly rejects moral relativism, modernism, secularism, and the separation of church and state.
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"What evil has found a home in the body of Lady Secularism?" he rapped.
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Go deeper: Former Pope blames the sexual revolution, secularism for abuse in Catholic Church
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We see much male bonding, pep talks, sanctimonious sermons on secularism and virtue signalling.
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Democrats became the party of cosmopolitan values, secularism, and diversity, and therefore the cities.
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Officials apologized and said the case was an incorrect interpretation of France's secularism law.
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Critics say Mr. Modi is chipping away at India's traditions of democracy and secularism.
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Their ardent secularism made them anti-Islamist and a natural enemy for the jihadis.
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Médine declined to comment on the latest furor, but in 2016, he told The New York Times that "Don't Laïk" was about French secularism — its title is a mash-up of English "don't like" and the French word for secularism, "laïcité," he said.
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Muslim voters, meanwhile, mistrust the left's dedication to the strict French secularism known as laïcité.
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In western Europe and Latin America, priests and bishops are instead contending with growing secularism.
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"It is the state that is imposing secularism as a religion on me," she said.
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In 2016, he told The New York Times that "Don't Laïk" was criticizing French secularism.
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"We see the growing ascendancy of secularism and the doctrine of moral relativism," he said.
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Conservative Christians helped elect Republican politicians, but that did not stop the slide toward secularism.
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The only way to beat back this march of secularism is to vote for him!
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Turkey's democratic travails have conventionally been explained through the supposed clash between Islam and secularism.
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I think people are misreading the book as a rejection of secularism and the Enlightenment.
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The Publier ruling touches on the wider debate surrounding the role of secularism in France today.
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Instead, the Temple is guided by multiple overlapping values: secularism, evidence-based science and civil liberties.
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The local branch of the party, which espouses left-of-center secularism, won elections in 2008.
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Evangelical conservatives are pushing back against liberal secularism on issues such as abortion and gay rights.
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Extremist groups may feel emboldened under a ruling party that is losing its reputation for secularism.
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By the lights of strict secularism, using civil law to bring about religious divorce is problematic.
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The new amendment reinstated the principle of secularism but also reaffirmed Islam as the state religion.
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What unites his disparate positions is a general hostility to secularism, science, and the industrialized world.
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Is it our duty to enforce secularism, because in the West we think we know better?
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People are always saying we live in a more secular age, but secularism never really comes.
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In the past couple of centuries, however, secularism has gone all-in on individualism and materialism.
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But that openness could upset the very precarious balance between secularism and religion in Bangladeshi politics.
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Hägglund does his usual deconstructive reversal, and argues that King's religiosity was really a committed secularism.
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Zayd Dohrn's play, about secularism and fundamentalism among two first-generation American families, concludes its run.
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Especially in Spain, the faithful were also warned against the decadent secularism of the modern West.
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The new laws have created a powder keg of debate on secularism, Islamophobia, and national security.
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Secularism and the pseudo-liberal tyranny of political correctness are almost as censoriousness as 20th-century totalitarianisms.
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Ironically, it was Sheikh Hasina's father, Bangladesh's first president, who insisted on enshrining secularism in the constitution.
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Rizvi's book is partly a plea for secularism and partly a defense of Islam as a culture.
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Laïcité, a near-sacred principle of secularism often cited in these instances, only seems to target Muslims.
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Many analysts failed to recognize that, by 85033, secularism was already on the retreat throughout the region.
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In Indonesia, declining secularism has led to deepening discrimination against the country's gay, lesbian and transgender communities.
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One clue is that the BJP's main opponent, the Congress party, has largely dropped talk of secularism.
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Laïcité, France's staunch version of secularism, is so inflexible it can appear to rob them of dignity.
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France has had its own parsing of "radical Islam," though the fight over "secularism" is even fiercer.
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The Center for Inquiry, an organization that promotes secularism, suspended its association with Dr. Krauss on Monday.
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Her avowed secularism has upset many Catholics, though she visited Pope Francis in February to discuss migration.
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The scene was a mixture of opposite worlds: East and West, traditions and modernity, religion and secularism.
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In 2014, a prominent Maldivian journalist who wrote about secularism and extremism, Ahmed Rilwan Abdulla, was abducted.
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India's traditional secularism is now locked in battle with the new majoritarian, Hindu chauvinist politics he represents.
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When Bangladesh became independent from Pakistan in 1971, secularism was one of the new country's founding principles.
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By injecting religious credentials into considerations of citizenship, it subtly challenges the secularism enshrined in India's constitution.
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A few hundred students still gathered outside the university gates, holding placards calling for justice and secularism.
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Ince&aposs rally in the coastal city of Izmir, a bastion of secularism, drew hundreds of thousands Thursday.
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They fear that the repression of competitive politics is undermining the country's long history of secularism and tolerance.
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But others have defended it as a necessary measure to ensure Quebec's vaunted secularism and way of life.
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A law of 1905 entrenched the principle of laïcité, or strict secularism, after a struggle against authoritarian Catholicism.
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Secularism is moving toward a culture that excludes God from the public conscience in the name of tolerance.
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Mayor David Lisnard issued a mandate in late July banning beachwear that doesn't respect "good morals and secularism."
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To a surprising extent, the militants have succeeded in their aim of discrediting secularism, the chief investigator said.
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He said when he was in the military, the guardian of secularism, he had to conceal his religiosity.
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But the tensions between secularism and theism are real, and profound, and won't abate in the imaginable future.
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It reinstated Article 12 of the Constitution, which lays out "the ideal of secularism" and dates to 1972.
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When Nanjiani left for college, his mother made him promise that he would never succumb to Western secularism.
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But the rock-ribbed secularism is belied by Quebec's landscape, dotted as it is with very large crucifixes.
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The war between these two is, of course, a proxy for the global clash between fundamentalism and secularism.
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It may seem a short step from defining the state by its secularism to insisting everyone become secular.
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Tunisia has a history of secularism from above and Islamism from below—the two play off each other.
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And that he chose, of all places, France, the sacred land of "laïcité," the local version of secularism.
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Mr. Erdogan is an Islamist who rose from the conservative, religious working class that most resented westernized secularism.
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Mr. Erdogan's Turkey has not harmed secularism, but rather has become "more inclusive," argued an approving Ms. Cataloglu.
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Half of the population identifies as Christian, according to the latest census, but secularism is on the rise.
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They rightly point out that Muslims need secularism to be able to practice their religion as they see fit.
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Besides his dedication to protecting the president from, um, criminal justice, Barr unnerved readers with his war against secularism.
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If the old divide of secularism versus religiosity is a persistent crack, "the Kurdish question" constitutes yet another one.
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They also offered places for upper-middle-class men to enact abstract Enlightenment values about equality, secularism and merit.
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Mr Taylor, a Catholic who is a world authority on the history of secularism, called it a "dog's breakfast".
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Such matters are politically delicate in France, partly because they challenge its strict version of secularism known as laïcité.
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A century ago this had been the site of an army barracks where Ottoman soldiers protested against encroaching secularism.
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Critics worry a ruling in favor of Trinity Lutheran could tip the balance of power towards religion over secularism.
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He admonished what he deemed immorality and expanding secularism in American society and warned of impending judgment from God.
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The feeling among Turkey's progressives is that our lifestyle is under siege and secularism is being systematically chipped away.
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The campaign has galvanized the country's far right, while bringing attention to the larger debate over secularism in France.
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Secularism in France: Officials apologized after a nun was told she couldn't wear religious attire at a retirement home.
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His critics say he is undermining India's deeply rooted traditions of democracy and secularism, and steadily stamping out dissent.
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And so the two leading candidates offer antagonistic views of globalization, Europe and laïcité, France's staunch form of secularism.
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Hefazat-e Islam is a coalition of extremist factions who came together to challenge Bangladesh's traditional secularism and politics.
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I would add that Muslims also need secularism to save religion from serving as handmaiden to unholy wars of domination.
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Nearly 80 percent said they felt that the vaunted French creed of secularism was "in danger," largely because of Islam.
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Among them was editor and publisher Gauri Lankesh, a vocal advocate of secularism and critic of right-wing political ideology.
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Starting in the 1950s, its increasingly strident constitutions swept away the secularism imagined by the nation's founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
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Its goal was purportedly to preserve secularism and destroy communism by any means necessary, outside the regular chain of command.
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The party seems to have benefited by emulating the BJP's appeals to Hindu identity in place of its traditional secularism.
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In some places Protestantism may settle down, with Pentecostals perhaps shifting to more staid denominations—or, indeed, fading into secularism.
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France, a traditionally Catholic nation, formally separated church and state a century ago and strict secularism is the official rule.
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After she participated in a debate about secularism, Khorsand was followed home by a stalker who harassed her for days.
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The truth is, the biggest issues facing the nation under a Trump presidency will stem from the erosion of secularism.
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At the other extreme is France, where the regime of laïcité (secularism) instituted in 1905 bars religion from state education.
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The first is laïcité, a strict form of secularism enshrined by law in 1905 after a struggle against authoritarian Catholicism.
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LeBaron is scattered with signs touting religious life but also advertisements for rodeos featuring alcohol, hinting at traces of secularism.
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That means the women in his early life were influenced by the secularism of Syria, not conservative Sunni Islamic views.
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The murder of Lankesh, a staunch advocate of secularism and critic of right-wing political ideology, sparked protests across India.
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But secularism is far from universally accepted in Bangladesh, and has always had to contend with a conservative Islamic culture.
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Her father was an industrialist, educated in London, who headed a progressive party advocating for secularism and democracy in Iraq.
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He formally disbanded the group in 2008, announcing it was transitioning into a movement to oppose secularism and Western thought.
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The so-called culture wars, which have pitted the religious right against secularism, had no equivalent in relatively secular Europe.
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The question of religion in the public sphere is particularly fraught in France, which has a strong tradition of secularism.
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The President will now be empowered to move forward with his plan to erode secularism and consolidate his own power.
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"We found him always a loud voice against all injustice and also a great supporter of secularism," Sarker told Reuters.
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It also touches the core French principle of secularism in public life that aims to separate religion from state affairs.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In the aftermath of independence, India embraced Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's version of secularism.
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Defying the Syrian government's historic secularism, Iran and Hezbollah have infused parts of the country with a strikingly religious tint.
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Since it divorced itself from Pakistan in 1971 and became its own country, Bangladesh has veered between secularism and Islamism.
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To the Editor: Rod Dreher laments the growing secularism of American culture, and the theological "thinness" of American Christians' beliefs.
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Several seaside towns have outlawed it, arguing that it breaks French laws on secularism, but there is no national ban.
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This disagreement continues to divide French politics, though they are now argued in the subtler language of integration and secularism.
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In Niger, some religious leaders are calling for a "re-Islamisation" against the secularism imposed by former colonial power France.
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Although huddled together under the umbrella of secularism, each one appears to be absorbed in his or her own reality.
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So if your end goal for American religion is Scandinavian secularism then, sure, go ahead, throw money at the churches.
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Instead of merely keeping religion out of state affairs, French secularism condemned religion's influence on political culture in general as pernicious.
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And when those cities are in Francophone countries that adopt the strident French approach to secularism, Sunni radicalism is more appealing.
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The church might not go down well with authorities—the government promotes secularism and is often accused of persecuting religious people.
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Lisnard said anyone "wearing improper clothes that are not respectful of good morals and secularism" would be banned from accessing beaches.
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They do not consider Turkey to be a sufficiently Muslim nation, abhor secularism, and despise Turkey's ties to the United States.
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He was seen as a breath of fresh air, a liberal-minded reformer, a pragmatic achiever and a paragon of secularism.
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But the swing from piety to secularism in Quebec has been exceptionally sharp, perhaps because the starting point was so devout.
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It said its pages had repeatedly warned that Gulen's movement represented a danger to the Republic and wanted to abolish secularism.
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Starting at independence, India invested in political institutions first — establishing democracy, free speech, independent media, secularism and protections for minority rights.
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He formally disbanded the group in 2008, announcing that it was transitioning into a movement to oppose secularism and Western thought.
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Turkey's military has a history of mounting coups to defend secularism, although the army has not seized power directly since 1980.
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Valls said that secularism was not the negation of religion but the protection of everyone's right to believe — or not believe.
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But with growing secularism and returning expatriates, the number of dogs in his practice tripled, a trend he saw reflected underfoot.
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It is no coincidence that with the rise of the religious right we also had a rise in anti-Christian secularism.
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The statue became a proxy for simmering tension between proponents of secularism, which is enshrined in Bangladesh's Constitution, and religious leaders.
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And Jaffa, in Agnon's telling, stands for the same values that Tel Aviv does in Israel today—secularism, pleasure-seeking, modernity.
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It "uses religion to get votes," said Jenny White, an expert on the changing role of Islam and secularism within Turkey.
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"(The government) has a clear idea about where they want to take India and it has nothing to do with secularism."
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The armed forces have had a history of mounting coups to defend secularism, but have not seized power directly since 1980.
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They reflect a longer and wrenching debate about religion, about European identity, about secularism and the role of Islam in society.
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Organizations like UAAR and the International Humanist and Ethical Union are campaigning for governmental secularism and an end to blasphemy laws.
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That last sentiment is more characteristic of American church-state separation than of French secularism in its most zealously anti-clerical form.
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But Cumhuriyet said its pages had repeatedly warned that Gulen's movement represented a danger to the Republic and wanted to abolish secularism.
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President Francois Hollande's government has backed the decisions taken by mainly conservative mayors, who argue the garment violates France's laws on secularism.
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Mr Legault's critics accuse him of using secularism to hide a nastier agenda of putting religious minorities, especially Muslims, in their place.
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"For one thing, the new constitution should not have secularism," Kahraman said, according to videos of his speech published by Turkish media.
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But the media has to appear to respect the values on which our Republic and our Constitution are based – democracy and secularism.
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Lankesh was a fierce advocate of secularism and opposed hardline Hindu groups associated with Prime Narendra Modi's right-wing, nationalist ruling party.
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For its "Secularism and Skepticism" class last year, he turned away 25 students, more than the 22 he was able to admit.
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Ostensibly, this was because the scarves were visible religious symbols and thus ran afoul of the French rule of laïcité, or secularism.
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This aphorism is a pretty good definition of what "secularism" has come to mean—the not being bound by any moral limitations.
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This basic tension between European secularism and tolerance is one of the key factors fueling the rise of Europe's xenophobic far right.
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In his Mass, Francis sought to rally a church battered by secularism as well as its history of clerical and institutional abuse.
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But her attacks on Islamic fundamentalism and her defense of a strict public secularism have been echoed by many mainstream French politicians.
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So the efforts of Trump's henchmen to use the specter of secularism to distract people from their boss's sins probably won't work.
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Here's an idea of the scale of our problem with secularism: The most cited name during President Dilma Rousseff's impeachment was God.
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The military stepped in three times to topple governments between 1960 and 1980, with the aim of upholding Turkey's constitutionally mandated secularism.
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Critics of Hasina's government say she has failed to rein in extremist violence by failing to defend secularism and carrying out toothless investigations.
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It advocates moving away from secularism and returning to the rules of the Quran as a basis for healthy families, communities and states.
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Conservatism—which emphasises respect for tradition, national identity and religious faith amid rising cosmopolitan secularism—is well represented in Polish literature and philosophy.
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Why it matters: The elections are taking place amid worries about unemployment, recent tensions with Pakistan and the future of secularism in India.
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Under the regime of laïcité, or strict secularism, municipalities took over formal responsibility for Catholic churches; clerics and their congregations are merely users.
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Mr Legault claims to be enshrining in law the concept of laïcité, an uncompromising version of secularism with roots in the French revolution.
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Trump also made comments that appeared to recount the secularism that is far more prevalent in European politics than it is in America.
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This in turn has worsened the country's security crisis, as opposing groups have claimed the right to govern under a banner of secularism.
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Pinning terrorism on "multiculturalism" or non-secularism or foreign values or "radical Islam" all portray inclusiveness as somehow threatening and exclusiveness as safer.
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For urban Turks, and for others who still embrace the secularism of Kemal Ataturk, Erdogan's conservative, religion-driven agenda is hard to stomach.
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His scripts, which generally excoriated India's upper castes while creating heroes and heroines out of the impoverished and championing secularism, were considered pioneering.
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So far her attempts to strike that balance seem to have undercut the role of secularism and other liberal values in Bangladeshi politics.
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Mr. Ossoff's secularism would have surprised many American liberals of the 1950s and 1960s, who looked to the moral inspiration of the Rev.
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It seems almost beside the point to note that Barr's claim that secularism is responsible for violence happens to be empirically verifiable nonsense.
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Modi has been accused of taking steps to move India away from secularism and toward a Hindu state, including through the citizenship bill.
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He has been recognized by former leaders of Turkey as a Muslim intellectual committed to democracy, the rule of law, and moderate secularism.
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This year, he did the same for women in the army, an institution previously regarded as the last bastion of hard-line secularism.
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On the right, the anti-liberals locate the root of the problem in liberalism's social doctrines, its emphasis on secularism and individual rights.
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The group advocates moving away from secularism and returning to the rules of the Quran as a basis for healthy families, communities and states.
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They suggest that political, social, and/or cultural practices associated with laïcité — say, for example, emphasizing secularism — could have something to do with radicalization.
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Unfortunately, Turkey under President Erdogan is abandoning secularism and democratic norms, becoming an Islamist authoritarian state, and pulling away from the U.S. and NATO.
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Participants describe the studies as being a kind of support group for Washington's godly minority, offering a respite from secularism and self-interested machinations.
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One factor could be the very aggressive form of secularism in France -- far more aggressive than the United States or any other Western country.
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Contrary to conservatives' warnings about the oppressive secularism of the modern university, these students have taken advantage of their campuses' multicultural marketplace of ideas.
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In seeking to capture an imagined greatness, Indian and European voters are reacting to societies struggling with economic disparity, inequality and issues of secularism.
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While eschewing radical Islamist movements and publicly reaffirming secularism, he's given a stronger role to religious education and ramped up his own Islamic rhetoric.
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Rabbi Sacks, much like the Vatican, believes that materialism and secularism in liberal democracies have prompted selfishness, promoted human arrogance and undermined family values.
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The crisis illuminates India's special brand of "secularism," which is not at all like the West's definition: a formal separation of church and state.
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In fact, the history of Turkey has been shaped by class politics that are obscured by a misleading narrative that pits Islamization against secularism.
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Where the spiritual worldview blurs into secularism, it's usually claiming scientific bona fides; where it blurs into traditional religion it's usually talking about Jesus.
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Every major electoral faction includes a mix of Iraqis, and the ideas of nationalism and secularism are slowly returning to the Iraqi political sphere.
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Tunisia's top-down secularism starved underground radicals of local religious influences, giving their Islamism, with its burning social resentments, the feel of revolutionary leftism.
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The Progressive Artists' Group represented a microcosm of class, caste, and religion, making them the perfect poster boys for the Nehruvian ideal of secularism.
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The recent attacks in Bangladesh have raised fears that religious extremists are gaining a foothold in the country, despite its traditions of secularism and tolerance.
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But Virginie Rozière, a French MEP and staunch advocate of secularism, said it was "completely crazy" to contemplate any change that boosted the churches' role.
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Class topics, pinned to the wall in the entrance hall, range from media training and leadership to "France, Christianity and secularism" and "world Islamist organisations".
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The rise of the cemaat has its roots in the long struggle between the official secularism established by Kemal Ataturk, Turkey's founding father, and Islam.
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"Secularism is why you haven't seen the religious skirmishes, warfare and bloodshed we've seen around the world when religion is part of government," she said.
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The burkini — and the decisions to ban wearing them on beaches — has become the focus of spirited global debates over women's rights, assimilation and secularism.
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In the name of "laïcité," or secularism, France is stripping women of a fundamental human right: the right to cover their bodies as they choose.
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The effort had struck a nerve among Bangladeshis, whose tug of war over secularism and Islam dates to the 1971 war for independence from Pakistan.
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Zillur Rahman, an academic in Dhaka, says that the Awami League "wants to be seen as a champion of secularism and a protector of Islam".
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Radicalization meant adopting the very same policies the opposition feared the most: anti-secularism in Turkey, anti-Europeanism in Hungary and anti-pluralism in Venezuela.
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And, of course, it was and is full of contradictions: A radically new secularism founded it, and a political-religious fervor came to define it.
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In October, he said that "the forces of secularism" had unleashed "immense suffering, wreckage and misery" as they sought to destroy religious life in America.
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Officials now say that the retirement home wrongly applied France's secularism laws, and Alain Chrétien, the mayor of Vesoul, apologized in a statement on Tuesday.
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"I have said time and again that the republican order, and secularism, when executed perfectly, are blessings from God," he once said on Turkish television.
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"It should not be forgotten that the Turkish armed forces are a side in this debate and are a staunch defender of secularism," it said.
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For Roy, the terrorists, mostly second-generation immigrants, were caught between the tradition-bound world of their parents and the secularism of their French contemporaries.
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He is from Hebron and Ramallah, the Palestinians' de facto capital; she is from Tel Aviv, its own bubble of sea and secularism in Israel.
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The 130 years of rule in Algeria culminated in an imperial identity that blended values like secularism with nationalism and the racial hierarchies of colonialism.
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That has never been more true than today, as people of faith see and are saddened that secularism is promoted in our schools and society.
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Contemporary Muslim academics such as Abdelwahab El-Affendi and Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im have articulated powerful Islamic arguments for embracing a liberal secularism that respects religion.
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The mainly conservative mayors who have imposed the ban say the garment, which leaves only the face, hands and feet exposed, defies French laws on secularism.
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"Even as secularism reduces overt religiosity in many places religion has apparently still left a deep and abiding mark on human moral intuitions," the authors write.
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In all, the collection of essays is at once challenging and lyrical, and portrays a nuanced, complicated look at faith, secularism, and evangelical culture in 2018.
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Next would likely be the finger pointing as to why Americans are losing religion -- the rise of secularism, acceptance of abortion, the gays, and so on.
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It was founded on the belief that Islam is not simply a religion, but a way of life and advocates for a move away from secularism.
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Secularism didn't ship 21 million opioids to a West Virginia town with fewer than 3,000 residents; drug manufacturers who prioritized profits over human lives did that.
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But as outsiders try to make sense of Leo Varadkar's elevation (see article), many will see it as one more sign of Ireland's dash towards secularism.
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Violence has proliferated against non-Muslims, as well as those who speak up for secularism or for causes such as gay rights that are deemed sacrilegious.
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The problem, says Mr Badr, is that like almost every other religion in the world, the Druze tradition is affected by the rising tide of secularism.
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The students who filed the lawsuit worked with a coalition of women's rights and groups promoting secularism that have accused Notre Dame of infringing women's rights.
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In the east, the demographic changes, secularism and shifting suburban settlement patterns common to the rest of the Northeast Corridor are making the region more Democratic.
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Secularism is making inroads even in the holy city of Najaf, the seat of Iraq's ayatollahs, which has thrived on Shia pilgrimage since the American invasion.
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But he would also be letting down the broader "theocon" cause and its self-imposed mission to work together against the demons of secularism and liberalism.
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West, the 21st century struggle may be horizontal, with conservatives and traditionalists in every country arrayed against the militant secularism of a multicultural and transnational elite.
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For those who think it is because Western civilisation has proved superior, the remedy is to adopt Western norms of secularism, rationalism and, above all, democracy.
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Even when civilians have been in charge, the army has lurked in the background as the self-appointed guardian of secularism against Islamists and other radicals.
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He is certainly the loudest, pounding even more explicitly than Ms. Le Pen the themes of secularism and the need to oppose the influence of Islam.
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Many feel the country's culture and values are under attack and see the burkini as a sign of women's oppression and an affront to French secularism.
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Musk posted a shot of himself at the memorial of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the first president of modern Turkey and a champion of secularism and modernization.
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Many felt that Western ideas like liberalism, secularism and freedom of speech had been used cynically against them to maintain the power of a cultural oligarchy.
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But the state secretary in charge of fighting discrimination, Marlene Schiappa, had said the demonstration was a protest against secularism "under the disguise of fighting discrimination".
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President Francois Hollande's government has backed the decisions taken by mostly conservative mayors to impose the ban, arguing that the burkini violates French laws on secularism.
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But we marveled as we watched Mr. Trump demolish the primary tool that has allowed liberalism and secularism to control the debate for decades: political correctness.
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" His ruling states: "Access to beaches and for swimming is banned to any person wearing improper clothes that are not respectful of good morals and secularism.
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Secularism is poorly equipped to deal with religious passion, Mr. Moore argues, especially with radical Islam, which believes that spreading Islam is a commandment from Allah.
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Mr. Abdul Mahdi, who will take the top job, is a former vice president who is unaffiliated with any party and has a reputation for secularism.
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Unlike the rest of the country, Quebec sees itself in France's model of "laïcité," a fierce secularism in which public expressions of religion are frowned upon.
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Thus, when Islamic movements struggle to make the state their means to Islamicize society, they're in line with this modern conception of secularism, Professor Mahmood maintained.
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But the policy is gaining strength in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, breeding fear that the country's long standing legacy of secularism could be at risk.
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" Mr. Bouvet, in response to emailed questions, said his outburst against Ms. Pougetoux, "is absolutely not a question of secularism, in the sense of the law.
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Many saw that as a further move against the military, which was long considered the guardian of Turkish "secularism," something Mr. Erdogan, a devout Muslim, opposed.
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Like the Levys, many Sephardic families would spend the 20th century tugged between secularism and faith, and between loyalty to old empires and a new nationalism.
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Virtuous talk of unity in diversity and secularism has been replaced by a barefaced Hindu nationalism: The tattered old masks, and the gloves, have come off.
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Thanks to shows on cable TV, social media and group meetings, Islamists have succeeded to an alarming degree in painting secularism as a threat to Islam.
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People have a desire for solidarity that cosmopolitanism does not satisfy, immaterial interests that redistribution cannot meet, a yearning for the sacred that secularism cannot answer.
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The country remains submissive before spiritual authority, even under laïcité, the century-old constitutional secularism that the French mistake for a system of freedom of religion.
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There used to be social conservatives, who believed that the moral fabric of the country had been weakened by secularism and the breakdown of the family.
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PAG comprised of Hindus, Muslims and Christians, and a microcosm of class and caste, making them the perfect poster boys for the Nehruvian ideal of secularism.
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The roots of French political secularism, known as laïcité, go back to the revolution of 1789 and to an anti-clerical campaign in the early 20th century.
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Such differences in the way people listened to and interpreted the sounds of the coup amplify Turkey's longstanding polarization between state secularism and public practices of Islam.
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Erdogan's distaste for alcohol stands in contrast to modern Turkey's founding father, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who championed secularism and was often pictured with a glass of raki.
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A French sports store stopped selling a hijab line for female joggers after local politicians claimed the design was a violation of the nation's principles on secularism.
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After last year's terrorist attacks in Paris, the Education Ministry added more hours dedicated to teaching about secularism and the republican values of liberty, equality and fraternity.
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Mr. Jeffrey said it would have been hard for Gulen followers, as Islamists, to infiltrate the armed forces, which have been a stronghold of secularism in Turkey.
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Moreover, because Québécois revolted against the strictures of the Roman Catholic Church in the 1960s, secularism is deeply ingrained and outward signs of religion can cause discomfort.
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But in the years that followed, John Paul lamented the growing secularism in Western Europe and feared what would come from democracies unmoored from a moral foundation.
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That is only a small part of the story, which is really about the future of Indian secularism and the role of Muslims amidst resurgent Hindu nationalism.
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Some Jews don't necessarily feel the kinship with Bernie that I do; they are religiously observant, in contrast to his secularism, or they experience their Jewishness differently.
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Secularism disappearing Maria Chin Abdullah, a prominent pro-democracy activist, says what's happening with the Lunar New Year decorations are "just small signs" of growing Islamic conservatism.
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Europe needs France, and in today's world, the world needs Europe to carry its messages of human rights, social and environmental rights, freedom of speech and secularism.
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All of this comes under the shadow of the country's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a self-proclaimed Hindu nationalist who has spoken out repeatedly against India's secularism.
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As Vox recently reported, secularism is on the rise in the US. But the propensity to believe in the divine runs very deep in the human psyche.
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Israel's Orthodox religious establishment, by contrast, sits at the top of dominantly Jewish society — seeing its task as preserving Israel's Jewish traditions against the lure of secularism.
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My argument is that secularism and secular humanism are outgrowths of Judeo-Christian thought and Greek philosophy that has evolved over the course of several thousand years.
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Moreover, the country has a pre-existing and unforgiving framework for managing religious expression—known as laïcité—which recent governments, fearing a threat to secularism, have tightened up.
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The Catholic Church is on life support in France — its decline accelerated by major abuse scandals — and many in France see Islam as the major threat to secularism.
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She's disappointed and angry, she said, at the skeptics' refusal to believe not only her claims about Krauss, but other women in secularism about the misogyny they've faced.
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They hacked at him with machetes, and shot him to ensure he was dead, all because he had written posts on Facebook promoting secularism and criticizing radical Islam.
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Over the past five decades, Tamil Nadu has chosen between the two Dravidian parties, both of which claim anti-caste social justice and secularism as their core ideology.
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But as secularism spread and imperial Britain faded, support for the Scottish Conservatives, as the party became after it was absorbed into the British Tories in 28, shrank.
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They hoped that Raqqa residents, having endured the Draconian rule of ISIS , would be open to the diametrically contrary values championed by Öcalan, from secularism to gender equality.
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In an interview with France 2 Television ahead of the presidential election in April, the National Front (FN) leader evoked the French principle of secularism in public life.
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Churches and Christian groups have pushed for expanding access to public dollars for places of worship and religious schools, testing the limits of secularism in the United States.
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The students, committed to conducting an "electronic jihad" against secularism, provided intelligence to Islamist officers in the Sudanese Armed Forces when they launched a coup d'état in 1989.
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I watched "Beverly Hills, 90210" so that I could understand what public school was like, as if religion makes school any more or less terrible than secularism does.
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" He also invokes religion a lot, something Conte criticized him for during his resignation speech on Tuesday, saying it "undermined the principle of secularism of the modern state.
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In 2015, Médine told Les Inrockuptibles, a French music magazine, that the French were reluctant to hear criticism of the country's official policy of secularism from a Muslim.
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"Madame has ample time to wear her veil at home, on the street, but not here, not today," he said, citing France's values of secularism, known as laïcité.
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Abel Chong, a young Chinese Malaysian who took part in anti-Najib protests, said he believed that a push towards greater secularism was important for a unified Malaysia.
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Analysts have expressed fear that if sectarian politics prevails in Indonesia's relatively cosmopolitan, well-educated capital, it would bode ill for secularism in the rest of the country.
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The sermons of Islamist firebrands from the Gulf, such as the Egyptian-born cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi, entered the homes of Tunisians who felt smothered by official secularism.
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"Any time that (situation) happens it is chaotic for the system, and I feel one thing Congress stands for is secularism, which the BJP does not," he said.
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But it does not do the same for Muslim immigrants, prompting critics to call it a discriminatory threat to democracy that violates the secularism enshrined in India's Constitution.
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Laïcité, the concept of state secularism, is a defining principle of the French republic, but it has often been a point of friction between Muslims and the state.
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Laïcité, or secularism, would be brought in as late as 1905 "to police the power of the Catholic church, which is very politicized in France," Professor Hussey said.
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There were those who condemned the books as conduits to witchcraft, and there were those who viewed them skeptically as being influenced by secularism, potentially undermining Christian values.
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With these issues dividing skeptics, Hensley, by then executive director of CFI's Washington DC branch, organized a new conference called "Women in Secularism," which debuted in May of 2012.
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Common to all, however, is a recoil from secularism and a search for a moral authority more powerful, because more traditional, than that of the state or of liberalism.
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The Catholic University of Lyon offers a government-backed diploma in religious freedom and secularism in French, designed especially for imams from abroad, but not enough people sign up.
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She was wearing an outfit similar to a "burkini", a full-body swimsuit that has been banned in many beach resorts in France in the name of laïcité (secularism).
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"This government is affected by the disease of secularism and is trying to separate politics and religion, which is very dangerous," said Novel Bamukmin of the FPI's Jakarta chapter.
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Khorsand has been followed and threatened for her work, and endured three days of stalking after hosting a debate on the roles of religion and secularism in Afghan culture.
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Across the border in arch-rival Pakistan, the foreign ministry said the decision "shredded the veneer of so-called secularism" in India and showed minorities were no longer safe.
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The wearing of the veil is an emotionally charged issue in France, where a form of state secularism known as laïcité is held as a bedrock of the republic.
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Muslim or migrant populations have struggled to integrate into Western European countries, often left feeling excluded from national identities that stress secularism and are rooted in specifically European heritage.
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But if Europe is not just a place on a map but a community of values, the home of secularism, liberalism and tolerance, the answer is much less clear.
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The organization was controversial among some ultra-Orthodox Jews, who saw it as an erosion of traditional gender roles and a Trojan horse that invited secularism into their neighborhoods.
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The law has been divisive in France, which has long been riven by tensions between its Muslim population, Europe's largest, and those who support the state ideology of secularism.
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The battlegrounds were college campuses, Hollywood, the bedroom — anywhere that moral relativism, secularism and the general "culture of depravity," as dedicated warriors like Rush Limbaugh put it, held sway.
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The law has been divisive in France, which has long been rived by tensions between its Muslim population, Europe's largest, and those who support the state ideology of secularism.
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Such actions are at odds with the values of secularism, equality and dignity, and freedom of expression, conscience and religion that are enshrined in India's progressive Constitution of 1950.
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" They suggest that so-called values voters are using the banners of religious liberty and opposition to abortion to try to supplant secularism with a "theocratic type of state.
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Whereas Francis sees a focus on the poor as the church's greatest hope, his predecessor, Benedict XVI, a German, saw secularism as the greatest threat to the church's future.
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" But "over the past 216 years religion has been under increasing attack," driven from the public square by "the growing ascendancy of secularism and the doctrine of moral relativism.
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The cities of Cannes and Villeneuve-Loubet have banned the burkini, arguing that the garment, which leaves only the face, hands and feet exposed, defies French laws on secularism.
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But it's contentious, because managing Islam seems to go against laïcité, France's staunch version of state secularism, and a 22016 law that mandates the separation of church and state.
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In a bold speech delivered at the Justice Department's Religious Liberty Summit, Sessions characterized the task force as a necessary step in facing down the prevailing forces of secularism.
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Others argue that public expressions of religious beliefs are an affront to secularism, and that "conspicuous" religious symbols, including Christian crucifixes and Jewish kippahs, should be worn only in private.
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Founded in 1928, its members advocate a move away from secularism and toward guidelines set forth in the Quran to serve as the basis for family life, communities and governments.
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Charlie Hebdo's new managing editor Riss penned the anniversary issue's editorial — an angry plea in favor of secularism — accompanied by the cartoon of a Charlie Hebdo tank crushing a terrorist.
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Pope Pius IX wouldn't have had to write a Syllabus of Errors if he weren't deeply, deeply worried that those "errors" — secularism, modernity, moral relativism, and more — threatened Catholic ideology.
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What they fail to realize is that secularism defies human rights; where it liberates one from forced religious practice, it oppresses the other that chooses to freely practice their religion.
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The idea that America was founded predominately as a Christian nation (and that the liberal agenda is pushing a false and ahistorical narrative of secularism) is central to Jeffress's argument.
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The Obama administration accelerated this trend by seeking to establish an aggressive form of secularism, the dangers of which are masked by empty claims of devotion to neutrality and objectivity.
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His AK Party has long had strained relations with the military, which has a history of mounting coups to defend secularism, although it has not seized power directly since 1980.
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The showdown over the burkini was only the latest controversy over the principle of laïcité, or secularism, that has been a defining feature of French political life since the Revolution.
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When liberals pushed for transgender rights, gay marriage and laws forcing bakers to bake cakes for same-sex weddings, evangelicals concluded that the left's secularism had become an existential threat.
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But non-Serbs — Catholic Croats and in particular Bosniak Muslims — say that holding the celebration of Statehood Day on a religious holiday violates their country's principle of secularism and pluralism.
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And you can't rule out a Biblical smiting, because maybe we were all wrong about secularism and it turns out God is ready to go full Old Testament on us.
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The country has a long history of secularism—all religious symbols, including the headscarf, were banned in 2004 from public institutions, and a ban on the burqa followed in 2015.
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But the idea that secularism means the separation of church and state "is an old idea" that has been challenged by scholars for about the last 20 years, she said.
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Professor Jenny White, an expert on the changing role of Islam and secularism within Turkey, argued that the democratization process was just one of several possible explanations for Wednesday's intervention.
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I anticipated multiculturalism bolstering Turkish democracy, already so diminished by those same conflicts, by military coups justified in the name of secularism and by the periodic disbanding of political parties.
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Past Turkish administrations had to live in check by a once-powerful military elite that saw itself as the guardian of secularism and had a long history of successful coups.
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Meanwhile his conservative stance on secularism and security - witnessed when he said this summer that the full body burkini swimsuit symbolized the enslavement of women - also caused ructions within the party.
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Meanwhile his conservative stance on secularism and security - witnessed when he said this summer that the full body burkini swimsuit symbolised the enslavement of women - also caused ructions within the party.
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And this — the "how" aspect of the plan — was broadly lacking from the National Conservatism Conference, despite numerous cris de coeur about what libertarianism and secularism were doing to American society.
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The modern Turkish republic was founded in 1923 by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, a former military officer deeply committed to a form of democratic nationalism and hard-line secularism now called Kemalism.
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Putting aside the advanced state of our society's decay into godless secularism and/or radical Islam, it's weird that the Christmas holiday weekend is a way bigger cultural deal than Easter.
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For Christian leaders of a conservative bent, recent decades in Australia have seen what the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Glenn Davies, calls a "militant secularism" deal repeated blows to the devout.
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The study of atheism and secularism is only now starting to emerge as an accepted academic field, scholars say, with its own journal, conferences, course offerings and, now, an endowed chair.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "Jihad and the French exception," by Farhad Khosrokhavar (Opinion, July, 20): I take issue with Mr. Khosrokhavar's critique of the French adherence to "Laïcité," or secularism.
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There's a whole other level to this story, though, that goes considerably deeper into the history of the modern West—to the long association between ideologies of liberation and radical secularism.
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But the appeals court in Richmond, Virginia, sided 2-1 with the American Humanist Association, an organization that advocates for secularism and represented several non-Christian residents of Prince George's County.
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In short, they look for a version of American conservatism that sneers a little less at the secularism and loose morals of coastal elites and a bit more at their cosmopolitanism.
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Turkish democracy is generally — and inadequately — understood to have been undermined by the military allegedly staging coups to protect secularism and, in recent years, by the Islamist ambitions of Mr. Erdogan.
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The opposition Congress Party, rooted in the secularism of Mahatma Gandhi, as well as smaller, regional political parties have warned of the dangers of altering long-standing secular laws and policies.
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He argued that the skepticism of the atheist was just as questionable as blind faith, though he conceded that secularism was on the rise — that cultural relevance had overtaken spiritual values.
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In this context, and given that Bangladesh is about 90 percent Muslim, to expect the Awami League to adhere to a purist's form of secularism would be both delusional and dangerous.
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Erdogan's Islamist-rooted AK Party has long had strained relations with the military, which has a history of mounting coups to defend secularism, although it has not seized power directly since 1980.
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And so, although it's a trope that the sharpest divide in Turkey is between secularism and religion, the majority of the country's citizens fit somewhere between the lines of these two ideas.
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On the other hand, all the above named people, whatever the differences, do want to be in vanguard of a fight against certain common enemies, including secularism, multi-culturalism, egalitarianism and modernity.
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He previously accused the Catholic Church in India of "anti-national activity", after an archbishop expressed concern about declining secularism in the country, and warned that Islam "cannot be moderated from within".
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Pahlavi posted the letter, written from his Paris office and addressed to Renzi personally, on a Twitter account where he describes himself as an "advocate of secularism and parliamentary democracy in Iran".
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Mustafa Sentop, a senior AKP member who heads a parliamentary commission on constitutional reform, said a draft text retained the precept of secularism and his party had not even discussed removing it.
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There was, however, an even more important reason for secularism among Indian nationalists than the idea that religion was an obscurantist and distracting force—"opium for the people" in the Marxist phrase.
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Consider those differences: Secularism is a bedrock U.S. principle, enshrined in the Constitution's First Amendment; in contrast, the Koran and Sunna are the Saudi constitution, enshrined as the Basic Law's first article.
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Phil Zuckerman, a sociologist of religion who founded the program, said it now offered four courses on secularism of its own and many others by the six professors associated with the department.
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Some French people say practices found among immigrant communities, such as Muslim women wearing full-face veils, are at odds with traditional French values, including the official secularism of the French state.
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Erdogan's Islamist-rooted AK Party has long had strained relations with the military, which has a history of mounting coups to defend secularism although it has not seized power directly since 1980.
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Meanwhile she presides over her own Masada in the form of her mother's apartment in a Jerusalem neighborhood, formerly a "bastion of secularism," that has recently turned "black" with ultra-Orthodox residents.
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He instead made the case that Yale University had become infested with liberal professors who, in promoting secularism and Keynesian economics, had torn the school from its traditionally Christian and capitalist roots.
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In April last year, the parliament speaker provoked opposition condemnation by calling for a religious constitution, prompting the government to insist that secularism would remain as a principle in the national charter.
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In an apparent effort to show its commitment to secularism, Mr. Legault's government pledged on Thursday to move a crucifix from the national assembly's main chamber to another area in the building.
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" Throughout his interview, Yiannopoulos presented both the rise of Islam and the proliferation of secularism, feminism, and "political correctness" as equally serious causes of what he called "the decline of our civilization.
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That was extended to state offices in 2013, and this year, the scrapping of the ban was extended to the army, long seen as the final safeguard of the country's vaunted secularism.
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For Mr. Cadène, that is partly because debates over Muslims in France have led to a "great confusion" about secularism laws and have shifted public discourse toward a stricter understanding of laïcité.
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After India's independence in 1947, the country's leading movie stars, Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar, propagated the values of liberal democracy, secularism and inclusiveness championed by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister.
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Turkey has long been of immense strategic importance to the West — as a check on Russian expansionism and Islamist fundamentalism; and as an inspiration for secularism and modernization for the Muslim world.
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In the 1990s, I was — as I still am — convinced that multiculturalism had the power to soften some of Turkey's eternal conflicts: between tradition and modernity; secularism and Islam; East and West.
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And, in July, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the creation of a new government task force to enforce the 2017 DOJ memo and to combat what he called the "dangers" of secularism.
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Still, by no means all the people who enjoy the beauty and energy of the Canadian Pacific region are God-fearing types; secularism and antipathy towards conventional religion represents a strong subculture too.
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When Sanders talks about his faith, Epstein noted, he says things like "all life is connected" and "we're all in this together"—phrases that fit nicely into the progressive secularism that characterizes humanism.
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Quebec used to be more devoutly Catholic than France, but these days it is racing to imitate and even outdo the Gallic motherland in its embrace of secularism, and probably going too far.
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Charles Taylor and Gérard Bouchard, two distinguished scholars who launched Quebec's debate on secularism with an influential report in 2008, were scathing about what they called the sloppy drafting of the new law.
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On the face of things, the United States is now on a path towards secularism that is already far advanced in western Europe, while other rich democracies like Canada are somewhere in between.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin's traditionalist-nationalist rhetoric, which blames secularism, diversity and internationalism for the weakening of Western democracies, gives voice to the grievances that American hate groups have felt for so long.
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He said that more than 15 years ago, when he was chairman of the philosophy department, he and Mr. Appignani first began discussing the idea for a chair to study atheism and secularism.
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The police in Bangladesh say they're preparing to round up the leaders of two militant groups accused in an accelerating series of attacks on bloggers, gay people and those who believe in secularism.
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Jokowi's pact with Ma'ruf, whose controversial positions include outlawing LGBT relationships, "is an indication that those who openly support pluralism, liberalism and secularism have been under attack for some years now," she added.
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If religiosity is a marker of one's politics, you can motivate your troops by spreading fear that religiosity is under threat: Secularism and/or pluralism and/or Islam is coming to replace you.
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Hefazat-e Islam, a coalition of extremist factions who came together to challenge Bangladesh's traditional secularism and politics, first rose to notoriety after they murdered the young blogger Rajib Haider in February 2013.
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" He said the two churches needed to "help one another" beat back the tide of secularism and "a growing sense of fear that, often skillfully stoked, leads to attitudes of rejection and hate.
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Like much else in the United States, a strong partisan divide runs through the survey results, with responses from Republicans seeming to place an emphasis on religion and those from Democrats on secularism.
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We should take Quebec's law as a warning sign of the injustice inflicted by a society that shoves faith behind closed doors and stop the imposition of secularism as a government-sponsored religion.
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Although she is Muslim by background, like Mr. Macron she believes in secularism in public life and does not wear a hijab, though she would not support a ban on it for adults.
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Veils and head scarves are political and social lightning rods in France, touching on issues so sensitive — secularism, feminism and the integration of Muslims — that they seem to inspire anger wherever they appear.
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Op-Ed Contributor As India prepares to celebrate 70 years of independence in August, its prime minister, Narendra Modi, has drawn criticism for unleashing intolerance that threatens secularism in the world's largest democracy.
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Speaking an impressively fast and American-accented English, he said that he had no trouble with French laws on laïcité, but that they had been "recoded" by racists who shielded themselves behind secularism.
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"The new policies that ban the teaching of evolution and requiring all schools to have a prayer room, these actions destroy the principle of secularism and the scientific principles of education," he said.
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The August remarks were not Moore's first suggesting that secularism is responsible for tragedies and violence in the U.S. During a speech to a church congregation in February, Moore suggested that the Sept.
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She has reshaped the party, dropped her father, and focused on rebranding the National Front as a protector against globalization and defender of French values, including secularism, against Islamist militants and "massive" immigration.
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The role of religion in political debate, perhaps best exemplified by Mr. Cruz's courting of evangelical voters with vows to defund Planned Parenthood, is baffling for a country that stakes its identity on secularism.
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All that is part of the background to a study of religious attitudes among Francophone Belgians, conducted by the Observatory of Religion and Secularism, a helpful resource for the study of faith in Europe.
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These days, though, it would seem that unionism's main political party, as it now runs from the increasing secularism of the Irish State, finds more common ground with the traditionalists from the Catholic Church.
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Against this background, Pamuk is the maverick author in an authoritarian state, whose themes just happen to overlap "with Western concerns" about the conflict between Islam and secularism, between personal freedom and collective belief.
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It is the latest example of the long-running tensions between France's forceful — some say inconsistent — commitment to secularism and the desire of many Muslims to express traditional values like modesty through their attire.
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However, in the regime's view, public fraternization between the sexes threatens its own Islamist vision for Iran by promoting Western values of sexual equality, which it regards as a harbinger of promiscuity and secularism.
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Mr. Erdogan — who served as Turkey's prime minister for 11 years before becoming its president in 2014 — forged his political career as an Islamist intent on challenging the strictures of Turkey's state-imposed secularism.
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In her studies, Professor Mahmood, a scholar of modern Egypt who specialized in sociocultural anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley, also challenged entrenched notions about secularism and religion, particularly in Muslim societies.
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These scholars now argue that the condition of secularism is in fact one in which the state has become "more and more involved in the regulation of religious life and religious institutions," she said.
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Churches and Christian groups in the United States have pushed for years to expand access to public dollars for religious schools and places of worship, testing the limits of secularism in the United States.
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The World Youth Day events are an effort by the Vatican to inspire Catholics at a time when rival denominations, secularism and sexual and financial scandals continue to lead some to abandon the Church.
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" He has made comments about religion before, saying that Muslims shouldn't be allowed to serve in Congress and that the U.S.'s shift toward secularism is responsible for terror attacks and "shootings and killings.
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The French attachment to secularism is not some ploy to oppress Muslims: It is the reflection of a long political history and a very different cultural attitude towards religion than in the United States.
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This new spate of killings started earlier this month, when 28-year-old law student Nazimuddin Samad was hacked with machetes and then shot, reportedly for his social media activism on behalf of secularism.
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France has long struggled to integrate western Europe's largest Muslim population, for years mired in a virulent debate over national identity and the role of Islam in a country that holds fast to state secularism.
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But there is a movement in the opposite direction: schools across France are being forced to remove pork-free options from their lunch menus, directly victimizing Jewish and Muslim kids in the name of secularism.
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" In other words, many Christians saw in the Evans case an example of secularism run rampant, in which the sanctity of life is replaced with the quasi-eugenics of deciding whose life is "worth living.
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Public debate about a ban on full body veils has broken out in several European countries since three French Mediterranean cities banned body-covering Muslim burkini swimwear, saying the burkini defies French laws on secularism.
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This Hindu communalism is not regionally separatist like the Muslim League; it stands, like Congress secularism, for a single Indian nation, but a nation in which the Hindu majority will determine social and cultural questions.
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The mayors of Cannes, Villeneuve-Loubet and the Corsican seaside resort of Sisco imposed the ban last week, arguing the burkini, which leaves only the face, hands and feet exposed, defies French laws on secularism.
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Eventually, this sense of secularism as a central principle of any French republic led to the 20133 law that separates Church and State, mandating state neutrality toward religions and the religious neutrality of public employees.
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The living room was open, and two towering walls of books there told the story of one generation's liberated secularism—Richard Feynman, Alfred Kinsey, Iris Murdoch, Bertrand Russell, and the art of Native American tribes.
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The various gunmen picked their targets because that was where a large number of ethnic and racial minorities congregate, not because of any militant secularism or love of anti-pious jokes on late-night television.
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The French Republic, having overthrown the monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church in 1789, has made laïcité, or secularism, the cornerstone of citizenship, seeming to prioritize it over liberty, fraternity and, let's not forget, equality.
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Immigrant groups, whether Jews or Muslims or Sikhs, feel like a minority in a province where secularism is ingrained culturally because of the historic revolution against the influence of the Catholic Church in the 1960s.
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Conservatives, including powerful clerics employed by the state, thought that allowing women to drive would be a crack in the dam that would allow secularism to flood in, washing away the kingdom's unique Islamic identity.
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At the time, Ireland was seen as one of the most conservative Catholic nations in the world, but a series of church scandals and growing secularism have the country rethinking many of its government's positions.
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The wearing of religious symbols like turbans is unpopular with many Quebecers who see it as an affront to the province's embrace of political secularism, a reaction to the Roman Catholic church's long dominance there.
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The most emotional response has focused on conservative Muslim immigrants, who perhaps present the greatest contrast to traditional European-based culture and the secularism that Quebec struggled hard to win from the Roman Catholic Church.
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Many Muslims and progressive Indians call the law a dangerous step toward marginalizing an already fearful community and a blatant violation of India's long commitment to secularism and equality, which is enshrined in its Constitution.
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Instead of looking at Per, we should perhaps look toward Jakobe, whose own renunciation takes her into the world, not away from it, and who seems to manage this turn without compromising her defiant secularism.
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They think their debates and discussions are the way to fight encroaching secularism — as if arguing and polemics are what matters, when the people they're arguing about don't even realize these fights are taking place.
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Nevertheless, it is worth noting that this wave differs from the kind of secularism imposed on the Muslim world about a century ago, under authoritarian Westernizers like Ataturk of Turkey or Reza Shah of Iran.
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It's a bleak future for the secularism of this country because our forefathers who fought for the freedom struggle of India fought for the syncretic culture of this country and not for a Hindu nation.
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Aaron McWilliams argues that unless public schools allow Bible classes (or "the Quran, or any other religious text,") we wind up "establishing a religion of secularism within our school by not having anything else." pic.twitter.
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Related: Editor of Bangladesh's First LGBT Magazine Killed by Suspected Islamist Militants Critics of Sheikh Hasina's government say she has failed to rein in extremist violence by failing to defend secularism and carrying out toothless investigations.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. experts urged Indonesia on Monday to free Jakarta's Christian governor, who was jailed this month for blasphemy - a conviction that risks encouraging Islamists to challenge secularism in the world's largest Muslim-majority nation.
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The group pointedly chooses March 15th as the date for its annual assessment because that was the day in 2004 when headscarves and other religious symbols were banned from French schools in the name of secularism.
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First, there's sometimes a religious tinge to his rhetoric — he's argued that "secularism has sapped the strength of the Judeo-Christian West to defend its ideals," and has even taken an interest in internal Vatican disputes.
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These "Mamluk" republics, mostly socialist-leaning with a penchant for central control of the economy, at first modelled themselves on the authoritarian nationalism of Turkey under Ataturk, though they did not fully share his militant secularism.
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In 2013, the province of Quebec's governing Parti Québécois introduced the "Quebec values charter," which sought to prohibit the wearing of any "conspicuous" religious garb by the province's public service, in the interests of state secularism.
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His story was almost the mirror image of Rushdie's; one a Muslim who became the champion of Western secularism, the other a Londoner who renounced the sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll that became his domain.
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During his 38 years as the religion editor of Newsweek — a span that ended in 2002 — Kenneth L. Woodward stood as one of the welcome exceptions to the clueless, self-congratulatory secularism of the Fourth Estate.
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Many citizens in the replica democracies of the East began to feel that their own cultural and religious traditions were being disparaged by an obligatory conversion to foreign attitudes, values and institutions, including secularism and multiculturalism.
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The fate of Christians in the Middle East has become a heated political topic in France — which, despite the country's official secularism, has lately wrestled with the place of both Christianity and Islam in public life.
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Inoculating the Southern Hemisphere from the growing scourge of sex abuse scandals, spreading secularism and out-of-touch clergy that devastated Catholicism in Europe is no easy task and will require much of the pope's attention.
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Secularism vs Hindu nationalism Utsav Vasudeva, a 22-year-old law student in the southern city of Bengaluru, says the BJP "has done a lot of good work" but he is uneasy about its religious underpinnings.
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The Soviet policy of supporting Marxists and nationalist movements in the Middle East posed a direct threat to both halves of the Saudi government: the monarchs feared leftist revolutionary sentiment while the Wahhabis loathed Soviet secularism.
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At a time when Christianity feels under pressure from secularism in the Christian West and from persecution in the Middle East, there is a natural impulse among its practitioners to close ranks and play down sectarian difference.
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Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh's first president and Sheikh Hasina's father, had presided over the drafting of a constitution that enshrined secularism as one of the country's guiding principles, even though the vast majority of the population was Muslim.
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They insist that an anti-Muslim climate has been created by politicians much closer to the respectable centre-right, or in the French case by zealous advocates of the century-old doctrine of laïcité,or strict secularism.
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It was the French Revolution, the rise of democracy, secularism, and the professionalization of art history as an academic discipline that brought the advent of the public art museum, moving art away from religious and monarchic spaces.
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My doctoral research at Baylor University on secularism and modernity only reinforced my belief that the concept of sovereign individualism, which dramatically shapes so much of our consumer and political culture, is a threat to human flourishing.
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In recent years some governments in Europe, notably France and Belgium, have ruled against the full covering of the face, arguing that it allows terrorists to disguise themselves and violates European notions of secularism and sexual equality.
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That court, based in Strasbourg, France, found that the ban was a legitimate attempt to preserve the norms of France's diverse society and its tradition of secularism, and did not violate the European Convention on Human Rights.
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Germany's system of government, carefully constructed after the Nazi era to prevent the accumulation of state powers, means the authorities interfere less than officials in neighboring France, where the preservation of secularism is a long-established norm.
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It is often argued, she said at the 2016 conference, that the solution to religious extremism is more secularism, and that nations like Pakistan suffer from fundamentalism because the state and its people are not adequately secular.
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Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, an ethnic Chinese popularly known as "Ahok", was jailed on May 9 for a longer-than-expected term in a ruling that critics fear will embolden hardline Islamist forces to challenge secularism in Indonesia.
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France's longstanding attitudes toward feminism, secularism and the integration of immigrants are at the root of the many controversies, but they are also fueled by recent fears about Islamist terrorism, along with the rise of social media.
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Earlier this summer, Sessions announced the creation of a religious liberty task force, designed, he said, to combat the "dangerous" specter of secularism in America by ensuring that government offices took the broadest possible view of religious liberty.
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For nearly a century, the national story has been that Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, in the wake of the first world war and the demise of the Ottoman empire, dragged a backwards Turkey towards Western-facing nationalism and secularism.
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If you look at the headlines coming out of France, you might conclude that the country's famous brand of "laicite," or secularism, is now being defended by a theocracy that would give Iran a run for its money.
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In the basement of a community center here, Médine said his song "Don't Laïk," whose video featured the nun, was actually meant to champion France's secularism laws, which were intended to give people room to practice their religion.
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Viewed with deepening suspicion by liberal Turks and some Western allies, who fear his Islamist ideals and authoritarian leadership are eroding Turkey's secularism and democracy, here Erdogan is seen as a hero of the pious, patriotic, working man.
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While Canada prides itself on embracing immigrants, the group has resonated with a small but vocal minority in Quebec, where a strong tradition of secularism was ingrained during a revolt against the Roman Catholic Church in the 1960s.
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In contemporary India the concerted attacks on Jawaharlal Nehru, the country's first prime minister and a symbol of the anticolonial movement who understood the centrality of secularism in Indian society, is a covert way of attacking secular democracy.
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The B.J.P. also vowed in its second term to pass a Hindu nationalist agenda, including abandoning India's official secularism and making Hinduism, the religion practiced by about 80 percent of the population, the guiding ideology of the government.
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A couple of months before the abduction, a mob kidnapped several men affiliated with a Facebook group calling for secularism, accused them of homosexuality and atheism, and forced them to cite parts of the Quran before being released.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey will allow female soldiers to wear a headscarf with their uniforms, defense ministry officials said on Wednesday, marking a symbolic shift for a military that has traditionally seen itself as a guardian of state secularism.
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In 2012, he organized the Reason Rally in Washington, DC, which brought thousands of atheists to the National Mall to hear speeches promoting secularism from celebrities, including evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, comedian Eddie Izzard, and MythBusters cohost Adam Savage.
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AMONG conservative Americans, a school of conventional wisdom holds that Christianity in Europe is rapidly heading for extinction, as the historic faith is supplanted by secularism, Islam or just a lazy-minded lack of concern for all things metaphysical.
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ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - A call by Turkey's parliament speaker for a new constitution to drop references to secularism provoked opposition condemnation and a brief street protest on Tuesday, potentially undermining government efforts to forge agreement on a new charter.
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PARIS (Reuters) - A French Muslim won a court order on Tuesday lifting a travel ban she says was imposed due to her ultra-conservative Salafist beliefs, in a case exposing tensions between France's official secularism and its Muslim minority.
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As a result, this Christian-ish landscape seems to produce more social dysfunction, more professional disappointment and more personal disarray than either a thoroughgoing secularism or a fully practiced faith — which makes it ripe territory for Trump's populist appeal.
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It's a form of observance that is heavy on ritual and sits somewhere between the two poles of Ashkenazi life: staunch secularism (the kibbutzniks; the sushi eaters of Herzliya) and strict religiosity (the kipa-wearers and the ultra-Orthodox).
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Pakistan defined itself as an Islamic country (its official name is the Islamic Republic of Pakistan) and the People's Republic of Bangladesh (its official name) tried to define itself in opposition to that, making secularism and tolerance its foundation.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia — The deadly attacks in Sri Lanka on Sunday highlighted how easily religious coexistence can be ripped apart in a region where secularism is weakening amid the growing appeal of a politics based on ethnic and sectarian identity.
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"It is the state that has an obligation to be neutral, not the citizens," said Nicolas Cadène, a senior member of the Observatory of Secularism, an agency that advocates respect of laïcité and advises the government on the matter.
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He believes that eroding French state secularism, known as laïcité, would lead to a "Balkanization of Europe along religious and ethnic lines," with a Muslim voting bloc, Muslim schools and a hardening of quasi-separatist communities of various religions.
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That is why it reminds me of the beginnings of the Enlightenment, when Europeans, having seen the horrors of religious wars and persecution, developed the idea of political secularism, while also championing reason, freedom of thought, equality and tolerance.
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In France, the clash between secularism and religious conservatism came into sharp relief this summer when nearly 30 towns, mainly in the country's southeast, introduced burkini bans, suggesting that the garments impinged upon French culture and way of life.
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Instead of blaming deep divisions over race, misogyny, immigration, income inequality and the bellicose Twitter reign of President Trump, many have seized on secularism as a scapegoat for everything that keeps politically conscious and conscientious Americans awake at night.
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Instead of blaming deep divisions over race, misogyny, immigration, income inequality and the bellicose Twitter reign of President Trump, many have seized on secularism as a scapegoat for everything that keeps politically conscious and conscientious Americans awake at night.
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PARIS — Plans by a major sporting goods company in France to sell a hijab designed for runners have incited yet another debate over what Muslim women wear, exposing once again the tensions between secularism and religion in the country.
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If secularism is understood to mean that the state does not interfere in theological matters, then this can leave a large social space in which religions and sub-cultures can act according to their own traditions, which may be pretty conservative.
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The notion of secularism had been used in Turkey to limit freedoms, Kahraman said in a statement, and a clearer definition "that does not bring the state and the people against each other" should be included in the new constitution.
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Therefore, Bannon's "crisis of capitalism," as he talks about earlier in his remarks, is paired with a crisis of faith — a weakening of Judeo-Christian ideals, brought on by the recent popularity of secularism and the growth of the Muslim world.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron, accused at home of straining France's secularism by seeking to mend ties with the Catholic Church, discussed topics from Europe and migration to abortion in an unusually long meeting with Pope Francis on Tuesday.
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After receiving a number of complaints from French politicians and many on social media who claimed the design violated the nation's principles on secularism, the company announced Tuesday that it had suspended the sale of the product in the France.
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Or it may emerge that ISIS or some other organized terrorists pushed him to this atrocity, targeting France — the country with the largest Muslim population in Europe and the strongest embrace of secularism — for the third time in 19 months.
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Members of hard-left parties took part in the march - though some others in the center stayed away saying it threatened France's tradition of secularism, and far right leader Marine Le Pen said the event had been organized by Islamists.
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It's a ruling speaks to the expansive vision of secularism that prevails in some European countries — one that, in turn, explains how Europe's anti-immigrant far right has risen by, in part, selling itself as a defender of liberal values.
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As Chief Justice John Roberts was being sworn in to oversee that affair, Trump was a few miles away, surrounded by a group of students and teachers who were there to praise him for waging war on secularism in schools.
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Nicolas Cadène, a senior member of the Observatory of Secularism, an agency that helps the government enforce laïcité, said that France's religious neutrality restrictions applied only to state employees and other public servants on the job, not to the general public.
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And therein lies the biggest challenge confronting Quilliam in Europe and, as it seeks to expand, in America: Though Nawaz himself is a star, there is something both noble and perilously square about this kind of eat-your-peas forced secularism.
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In Switzerland, politicians and civic groups across the political spectrum welcomed the ruling, calling it an important validation of the supremacy of secularism and the rule of law, even as some Muslims complained that it reflected growing intolerance for religious minorities.
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In the summer of 2016, several French seaside towns banned the body-covering burkini swimsuit worn by some Muslim women, arguing that the garment - which leaves only the face, hands and feet exposed - defied French laws on secularism and was causing public unrest.
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Europe in the 19th century, after all, was in many ways embracing increasing secularism, threatening the Papal States' political power in the face of Italian nationalists, who wanted to unify the fragmented city-states of the Italian Peninsula into a single country.
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" As for the threat of religious extremism to liberal democracies, Ms. Breyer said of Western societies: "We should be much less apologetic about teaching the good things about secularism, the Enlightenment, to people who are very religious and haven't necessarily encountered those values.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Restrictions on face and full-body veils are back in the spotlight in parts of Europe after some French cities banned the burkini swimsuit, saying the garment, which leaves only the face, hands and feet exposed, defies laws on secularism.
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"He stood there with his staff and he pushed back against the forces of secularism and he said, just like in 'Lord of the Rings,' 'You shall not pass,' when they were going after the Ten Commandments," Dana Loesch, an N.R.A. spokeswoman, said.
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For a North Indian like me, accustomed to the blood feud between the Congress and the B.J.P., and the polemics of secularism versus Hindu supremacy, the Arunachali politician's ability to change allegiance so lightly and so frequently seems both disconcerting and comforting.
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But his unapologetic calls for more faith in public life have made him a hero of the religious right, which has long hoped that the federal government would steer the country away from cultural changes like secularism and greater acceptance of L.G.B.T. people.
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I completely agree, for instance, with Mounk's critique of Le Pen's secularism-on-steroids approach to public religiosity, which would try to suppress Islamic identity (and Jewish identity) in various ways, from bans on head scarves to rules against kosher and halal slaughter.
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The resurgent nationalists and nativists insist there are alternatives — alternatives to openness, to mass migration, to free trade, to secularism, to Europe's ever closer union, to the legalization of same-sex marriage, to gender as a spectrum, to diversity, to human rights.
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He has been unafraid to use his platform as the nation's top law enforcement officer to fight the cultural changes they believe are making the country more inhospitable and unrecognizable, like rising immigration and secularism or new legal protections for L.G.B.T. people.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan announced on Monday plans to demolish a culture center in Istanbul named after the founder of modern secular Turkey, in a move critics see as another attempt by the Islamist-rooted ruling party to roll back secularism.
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The law, which the Quebec government said was designed to preserve "laicite" or secularism in the mainly French-speaking province, prohibits many types of civil servants, including teachers and police officers, from wearing religious symbols such as hijabs and turbans on the job.
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His parents arrived from a Judeo-Arab culture but gave their children Christian first names; Zemmour studied the Torah privately but removed any external symbols of his faith in public, presenting himself as fully devoted to the principle of laïcité, or French secularism.
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His controversial stance on secularism, which he has said Muslims might be exempt from, his plan for a universal wage of 750€ ($806) for all, and a proposal to legalize cannabis all put him firmly on the utopian side of the left.
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Politically, we may be witnessing a historic truce between Protestants and Catholics in the region: Evangelicals agree to embrace the Catholic Church's strong condemnation of abortion, the Catholic Church embraces evangelicals' strong condemnation of sexual diversity, and together, they can confront rising secularism.
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The demonstrations ushered in a wave of discontent initially over plans to develop the square, swelling to encompass a wide range of issues including freedom of the press, expression, and assembly, as well as what protestors claimed was the government's encroachment on Turkey's secularism.
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The move by the Turkish Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTUK) is likely to further anger government critics, who accuse President Tayyip Erdogan and his Islamist-rooted ruling AK Party of trying to roll back secularism and civil rights for minorities, gay people and women.
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In France, ever since the Revolution, and especially since the regime of laicité or strict secularism began in 1905, being a practising Catholic (or, you might argue, practising any religion seriously) has felt counter-cultural: an edgy act of protest against the existing order.
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In 2016 its then prime minister, Manuel Valls, labelled the religion a problem, but found that the principle of laïcité (secularism in public affairs) and a law from 1905 stating that "the republic shall not recognise or subsidise any religion" prevented him from tackling it.
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While earlier Charlie Hebdo cartoons had an element of ambiguity about them, this editorial reveals the magazine's worldview with a shocking bluntness: Muslims, simply by practicing their faith, are to be regarded as enemies not just of French secularism, but also collaborators in terrorism.
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That pluralism requires three things: firstly a British form of secularism, where freedom of religion, belief and expression are fully protected, provided they do not erode the rights and freedoms of others and no religion or belief has special privileges to the detriment of others.
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Proponents of the French bans argued that the burkini violates the country's laws on secularism, with leading politicians describing the garment as a form of female "enslavement"; but critics viewed the bans as sexist and Islamophobic, saying they would only further stigmatize Muslim women.
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"This cathedral is an outpost of the other Europe — ultraconservative and anti-modern — in the heart of the country of libertinism and secularism," said Michel Eltchaninoff, a French writer and author of "Dans la tête de Vladimir Poutine," a book about the Russian president's thinking.
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More than two years after Mr. Modi's election as prime minister, even as many continue to fear that India's founding values of secularism and diversity are under threat, Mr. Ananthamurthy's voice has served as an urgent reminder of the perils of majoritarianism and hyper-nationalism.
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The ordinances in question did not mention Islam or the burkinis explicitly — instead banned bathing attire that was not "appropriate," was not "respectful of good morals and of secularism," or did not respect "hygiene and security rules" — but the target of the laws was obvious.
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He was a dedicated employee of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice — known abroad as the religious police — serving with the front-line troops protecting the Islamic kingdom from Westernization, secularism and anything but the most conservative Islamic practices.
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In the name of secularism and with a false sense of upholding human rights, France is instead continuing to trample on a woman's basic right to choose how to dress and how to cover — choices that are intrinsically linked to women's rights and dignity.
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Yes, secularism is in France's DNA; this is the country that passed a law in 2004 to ban all emblems of religion in public schools, including Muslim head scarves, and a second law in 2010 to ban the burqa (full veil) in public areas.
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Ten years ago, Ms. Arslan was unable to attend a Turkish university because women like her who wore head scarves were barred from studying there, a result of rules established by Mr. Erdogan's predecessors, who were seen as enforcing a repressive form of secularism.
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The books have set off a passionate debate within the Catholic media; no doubt the candidates in the general election are now watching this debate closely, probably realizing that their secularism, after all, is not as widely shared in the electorate as they had assumed.
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University students who had watched aghast as the bill became law in the blink of an eye, pushed through a weakened parliament by a government with massive electoral majority, held protests against what they saw as subversion of constitutional values of secularism and equal citizenship.
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There is another government waiting in the wings, prepared to shape a future for Iran that is based on declared principles of secularism, democracy, and gender equality as it has been articulated by President of the National Council of Resistance of Iran Maryam Rajavi.
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But Ms. Tiwari, a university student, has turned against Mr. Modi, joining the growing protests sweeping this country after he pushed through a contentious citizenship law that more and more Indians see as anti-Muslim and a blow to India's foundation of tolerance and secularism.
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If this sudden spike in murders is an indication of things to come, the continued failure of the government's defense of minorities and secularism will only mean a descent into a widening cycle of violence and terror, an outcome only the extremists would welcome.
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She felt the vitriol directed at one student leader with a foreign-sounding name who tweeted dismissively about the Notre Dame fire was hypocritical, in a country where many defended the right to publish cartoons mocking the prophet Mohammed as protected by the law of secularism.
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And it's not just you: I've been studying the intersection of secularism and religion for almost 20 years, and now that I've started to work on the ethics of technology, I've noticed almost everyone I'm reading seems to refer to technology as a kind of secular religion.
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The Patriarch compared his own church's erstwhile Soviet captivity (which required it to abstain from any criticism of the atheist regime) with the present situation of England's church, which to pious Russian eyes now looks powerless to resist the tide of godless secularism and moral experimentation.
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In 2000, the Turkish government, then led by secularist Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit, indicted Gülen on charges of attempting to undermine Turkish secularism — a core feature of the state since Mustafa Kemal Atatürk founded the Turkish Republic in 1922 — and trying to install a Islamic dictatorship.
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In a recent interview in French (he has lived in Paris since the mid-nineteen-eighties), he claimed, "It is impossible, in a society like Arab society, to make a revolution unless it is founded on the principle of laïcité "—the French term for a stringent secularism.
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I guess they didn't want to ruffle E.U. feathers as they sought the greatest seal of approval for modern secularism — acceptance to the E.U. But now that they see Brexit and the massive trouble caused by the E.U.'s common currency, the bloom is off the rose.
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In her 2015 book, "Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report," Professor Mahmood confronted conventional ideas that secularism — commonly understood as the absence of religion or the separation of religion from state — would help reduce social and political inequalities and religious tensions in Islamic countries.
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If you are a wandering, homeless Christian, scarred by original sin, the answer might be: in the arms of a wandering Jew—but one whose own itinerancy is unseduced by the lure of religion, whose own secularism is not tempted by the simplicity of religious masochism.
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Erdogan, his roots in Islamist politics, has always had a difficult relationship with the military, which long saw itself as the guardian of secularism in Turkey, carrying out three coups and forcing a fourth, Islamist-led government from power in the second half of the 20th century.
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People who feel abandoned and bewildered by globalization, new technology, secularism, immigration, refugee crises, economic stagnation and Islamist violence are susceptible to dreams of going back to some never-never land in the past when harmony reigned and all felt at home with their own kind.
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To that end she is also, distinctly, French: She extols the virtues of militant secularism that has defined the French state since the early 20th century, and has proposed banning all religious headwear — including the Muslim hijab, the Jewish kippah, and the Sikh turban — in public spaces.
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Reuters interviewed 21 actors, playwrights, musicians and comedians for this story and found out that at least 15 of them have been subjected to questioning by event organizers or the authorities if their works explored contentious issues, such as secularism and religious intolerance, or ridiculed Modi's decisions.
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And conservatives are far more likely to identify with a criticism of "elites" when they believe those elites are responsible for the expansion of trans rights or creeping secularism than the wealthy and powerful people who are investing in private prisons or an expansion of the militarization of police.
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Originally created in Morocco at the request of customers there, Decathlon's "hijab de running" - a nylon hood designed to allow Muslim women to cover their hair while jogging - sparked outrage in France as politicians across the political spectrum said it was a violation of French principles on secularism.
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"Behind the deceptive flag of uncompromising secularism, the weekly is forgetting once more what religious leaders of every faith unceasingly repeat, to reject violence in the name of religion — using God to justify hatred is a genuine blasphemy, as Pope Francis has said several times," the newspaper wrote.
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The European Union does have a constitutional treaty but it lacks the prestige of the American charter; and on the sensitive question of religion, the 28-nation EU simply acknowledges the huge variety of national regimes, from French secularism to the established churches of Britain, Denmark and Greece.
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He later recanted his communism, and also his fervent secularism (he once dismissed an Oxford philosopher's argument that no machine could be an adequate representation of the mind with the scornful put-down: "If I believed that, I would have to be not only a Theist but an Episcopalian").
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Thus you have the striking phenomenon of the Netanyahu government cultivating friends like Hungary's Viktor Orban, on the grounds that joining an alliance of conservative nationalisms actually offers a surer ground for the Jewish state's survival than sticking with the secularism and anti-nationalism of the present liberal project.
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Having cultivated power by diminishing the role of the military in national life, enabling Muslims to practice their faith free of a state-enforced mode of secularism, he has in recent years attacked democratic institutions by crushing dissent, seizing the property of his enemies and muzzling the press.
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Erdogan might believe that secularism ripped Muslims from their traditional way of life, but so might encouraging people to live 43 stories up in the air with no easy access to a bakkal (market), or neighborly conversation, or, incidentally, a mosque where they might pray five times a day.
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Seemingly inconsequential requests — as when, in 2007, a Muslim group asked for pork-free baked beans and a prayer room for a private retreat at one of Quebec's many "sugar shacks," where maple syrup is made and feasted upon — have been taken as assaults on Quebec's vaunted secularism.
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For instance, there's no mention of the extent to which conservative lawyers already won a series of battles against the harder sort of secularism — even liberal jurisprudence today is less strictly secularist than in the '70s — and it didn't matter much to the cultural erosion of their faith.
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"France is a very secular society, which can be very virulent against any kind of religious expression, even those that are legal or do not threaten public order," said Nicolas Cadène, a senior member of the Observatory of Secularism, an agency that assists the government in enforcing laïcité.
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The Congress party has had departures from its commitment to secularism and minority rights in the past — acts of violence against Muslims under its watch and culpability in the 1984 massacres of the Sikh minority — but never before has it abandoned its rhetorical and symbolic commitment to these ideas.
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For example, the history of Western philosophy is usually presented as a form of inquiry that began with the ancient Greeks and Romans, then jumps to medieval Christian Europe, and picks up again when modern European Christians struggled with religious reform and the rise of secularism and science.
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"Behind the deceptive flag of an uncompromising secularism, the French weekly once again forgets what religious leaders of every faith have been urging for ages - to reject violence in the name of religion and that using God to justify hatred is a genuine blasphemy," it wrote in a short commentary.
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"The conflation of Priyanka with Indira could lend to the perception that the Congress Party has re-discovered its purpose, that it has a definite goal and that the secularism it has historically espoused and the safety it offers India's minorities could replace the Bharatiya Janata Party's nationalistic tendencies," said Hughes.
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When people's right for democracy is taken away in Turkey, this will not yield a positive result for either the Middle East or the US. With its democracy, secularism, modern Islamic conception and strong cooperation with the West, Turkey is a country whose existence is indispensable to the Middle East.
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Though cast as a bill on secularism, much of the debate stuck on voiles — the word used in Quebec for both hijabs and niqabs, because Muslims are the largest non-Christian religious group in the province, though only around 3 percent of the population according to the most recent census.
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In a majority Muslim country that has long been polarized between the religious majority and a minority of secular elites, critics said the overhaul of more than 170 curriculum topics by the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan represented a frontal assault on the country's already fragile tradition of secularism.
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I think that France would be much better served by a combination of reduced immigration and the kind of accommodations to its Muslim citizens that the Catholic French philosopher Pierre Manent has proposed, in which secularism gives ground to religious pluralism even as it firmly demands certain forms of assimilation.
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In the decade and a half since, Indonesia as a whole has drifted in a conservative direction, and Aceh, once an outlier, has become a model for other regions of the country seeking to impose their own Shariah-based ordinances, alarming those who worry about the nation's drift from secularism.
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The brilliant New York Times editor Bari Weiss was unreasonably vilified back in 2017 when she pointed out Women's March leader Linda Sarsour's long history of apologism for political Islamism, including tweets expressing a violent fantasy about Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a survivor of female genital mutilation who has embraced secularism.
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The painting in question, and other important paintings from the 1950's, like "The Spider and the Lamp" (1956) and "Zameen" ("Earth") (1955) by Husain, are not in the exhibition, but his ghost continues to hover over Indian art as a cautionary tale of the country's imperfect tryst with secularism.
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India has three main security concerns: that Bangladesh is a haven for various insurgent groups fighting the Indian government; that large numbers of illegal migrants from Bangladesh are changing the ethnic and religious character of the border areas; and that Bangladesh is turning away from its long history of secularism and tolerance.
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In a country with a rich history of freedom of expression and where secularism is a basic tenet of the constitution, the violence has forced many writers, who can't seek protection from police because they risk being arrested for insulting Islam in their work, to flee for their lives or censor themselves.
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Secularism is a staple of American society: It is the right of every American to practice the religion of his or her choice or to have no religion at all, all the while living under a government that protects that right and does not rely on any religion for its policy-making decisions.
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"Behind the deceptive flag of uncompromising secularism, the weekly is forgetting once more what religious leaders of every faith unceasingly repeat to reject violence in the name of religion – using God to justify hatred is a genuine blasphemy, as Pope Francis has said several times," the Guardian reports the paper as saying.
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Though secularism is one of the four founding principles of the 1972 Constitution of Bangladesh, it is still a country wherein over 85 percent of the population is of the Muslim faith, and one where calling your band Nafarmaan—"The Blasphemer" in Bengali—is more than likely to raise a few eyebrows.
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In September, a landmark survey commissioned by the Montaigne Institute found that 28 percent of French Muslims had adopted values "clearly opposed to the values of the republic," with a mix of "authoritarian" and "secessionist" views, including support for polygamy and the niqab, or full-face veil, and opposition to laws enforcing secularism.
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His Supreme Court victory over the nefarious forces of secularism made him a hero to evangelical voters, and he's used his sizable fortune to create a collective of evangelical scholars and a Bible museum set to open next fall in DC. In 2016, his support is arguably worth more than Jerry Falwell Jr.'s.
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As the leading constituent of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, led by Maryam Rajavi who espouses a democratic and secular Iran, it has put forth a ten-point plan for the future of the country that includes a commitment to secularism, democracy, regional non-intervention, and the rights of women and minorities.
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France has faced numerous heated debates over the place of religion in society in recent years, centered on the concept of laïcité, a policy of state secularism that first emerged during the French Revolution and took form in the 19th century, culminating in a landmark 1905 law on the separation of church and state.
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The purpose of France's regime of laïcité (strict secularism) was not "to conduct a battle against this or that religion in particular, not to exclude, not to point a finger…" As he conceived it, the function of laïcité was not to curb religion but to affirm and underpin religious freedom, albeit strictly within the framework of the law.
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Yet in the battle over how to accommodate France's Muslim population, the largest in Europe, a certain faction of the left has been among the most vocal in embracing a hardline Republicanism and restrictive vision of secularism that separates religion from public life—a narrow, and some argue flawed, interpretation of what the French call laïcité.
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They include the presence of Western Europe's largest Muslim community, French participation in conflicts from the Middle East to Mali, the tensions deriving from France's troubled colonial past (notably in Algeria), and, perhaps most of all, the Republic's firm doctrine of laïcité, or secularism, designed to subsume all ethnic, racial, religious and other differences into French citizenship.
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But to voters in Sioux City, and in Ames, and in red states across the US, the message was perfectly clear: The country is at the edge of a gaping abyss, teeming with secularism and Obamacare and ISIS and politically correct liberals, and Cruz is the guy who can lead righteous Americans to the other side.
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And therein lies the oddity: If you actually experienced these worlds, and contrasted them with the normal world of high-minded liberal secularism, it was the charismatic-religious and "health food" regions where people were the most personally empirical, least inclined to meekly submit to authority, and most determined to reason independently and keep trying things until they worked.
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That the pro-Trump voices, like you, John, see him as a bulwark against the trends that have marginalized traditional Christianity in France or England or Germany, while Trump critics (like myself and perhaps you, David) fear that by leading American Christians into defeat and disrepute, he will hasten us down the road to European secularism.
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While Minhaj has plenty of fun material here, he keeps Trudeau on his toes, grilling him on Canada's history of selling tanks and weapons to Saudi Arabia after softballs about Tim Horton's and Kawhi Leonard, and getting him to admit he opposes Quebec's controversial secularism bill before trying (jokingly) to trick him into reciting the Shahada.
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Op-Ed Contributor OXFORD, England — The conversion of Muslims to liberalism, secularism or atheism has become something of a meme in the West, with arguments raging among scholars, in the press and on social media about the possibility of Islam's undergoing a "reformation" or becoming "modern," for which the history of Christianity is supposed to provide a universal blueprint.
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One anxiety in the Western world right now, palpable on both the right and the left, is that the plush, end-of-rabbit-history warren is liberalism's dystopian destination: a sleek and fattened inhumanity, a terrible mix of comfort and cruelty, a loss of basic human goods under the pressure of capitalism or secularism or both.
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The library had received pressure to cancel the event from Joel Robideaux, a top Lafayette official — and lawsuits filed by Warriors for Christ and Special Forces of Liberty alleged that the Lafayette Public Library violated the First Amendment by promoting "human secularism"; following that logic, if public libraries hosted drag queens, they should also permit room rentals for all religious groups.
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Certain aspects of this visual drama could, I imagine, appeal to the fantasist tastes of blood-and-soil reactionaries and far-right neo-royalists — those with a fervent belief in the mystical and glorious destiny of France, who are dedicated to the destruction of secularism and liberalism and yearn to re-establish an atavistic hierarchy constructed along ultra-traditionalist Catholic lines.
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There tended to be a slight flaring of the nostrils at Ford at the way some other people used the term "development," which implied that there was only one way for a country to succeed—and that was to become like the developed world, with its cars and its air-conditioning and its secularism and its nuclear power and its shopping malls.
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