Most of us live in a secular, liberal, disenchanted world.

Enforcing a secular constitution before elections does not guarantee a secular outcome.

Under the title The Schizophrenia of Arab Secularists, he writes

Sandmonkey Insulting figureheads when they act dumb is the duty of every secular

In the 1940s the University of Sarajevo became the city's first secular higher education institute.

Nkosi Sikelel iAfrika ( God Bless Africa ), known as the African anthem, is a powerful signifier for mourning, redemption, and celebration.

Majority support for democracy in a country with no prior secular and nationalist history seems counter intuitive.

Waad is the National Democratic Action Society, a secular opposition group, which is also being threatened by the government with closure.

For many years Bangladesh was an exception in the Islamic world, pursuing an independent course in a peaceful, secular, and democratic fashion.

That Iran was once a secular society, and we had democracy, and this democracy was stolen from us by the American government, by the British government.

The liberal elite and intelligentsia rail against the dictator, confident that their country is primed for secular democracy.

There is also a clash that is best described not as being between Islam and the West, but between the secularized world and a growing religious one.

Garang fought for a united, secular, and democratic Sudan, a lofty dream that the Islamist regime in Khartoum admittedly has had no intention of implementing.

A single, secular, national Civil Code governing personal status was essential to strengthen equality in society and to help the Government in its implementation of the Convention.

With various feints and strategies, Malaysia has effectively managed the tensions between a secular, modernizing agenda and the Islamic faith that the Malays profess.

With the political standoff surrounding the selection of a new president intensifying, Turkey is entering a critical period that could have a profound effect on both the country s internal evolution as a secular democracy and its relations with the West.

And this is the drama of this world which many call globalized, is that Asia, Arabic countries, Latin America, are much more ahead in being healthy, educated, having human resources than they are economically.

The pope s words suggest that homosexuality is a kind of lifestyle choice, a form of modern decadence a secular, even blasphemous act against God and nature rather than a fact of birth.

We live in a secular world, where free speech can easily turn into insensitive and irresponsible mockery, while others see religion as their supreme goal, if not their last hope.

Without further clarification of the facts by the author, it would thus seem that the manifestation of religious belief at issue in this case may involve the complete covering of a student's face in the setting of a secular educational institution.

What does not help and in fact backfires is for outsiders to view the political crisis of Middle Eastern societies as the result of an Islamist secularist divide.

Ubiquitous images of Kim Jong il and his father, Kim Il sung, are the official symbols of a secular theocracy based on juche (pronounced choocheh), the Kims contribution to the world s patrimony of totalitarian ideologies.

So her work naturally posited female freedom in a secular, solitary, and individualistic context, in which freedom means pure autonomy rather than integration within a whole comprising family, community, and even God on equal terms.

Others do not believe that the Muslim Brotherhood will go so far, but nonetheless doubt that the Brothers will defend a secular, truly democratic regime in the ongoing negotiations with SCAF on a transition to civilian rule.

Ozkok was a moderate who maintained a low profile and sought to develop good working relations with Erdogan, By contrast, his successor, General Yasar Buyukanit, is a strong secularist who has been far more outspoken in asserting the military s views.