He said that the 59th government was sensitive about the secular, democratic, social, and lawful state.

Some of these values are rooted in a kind of secular Christianity, and others in the Enlightenment s revolutionary beliefs about human rights, equality, the French language, secular schooling, and the idea that the state is responsible for the common interest and application of republican principles.

The secular Kemalist state was no less authoritarian than Erdoğan s populist Islamist regime if anything, it was more so.

The End of Secularism?

Pakistan s homegrown terrorist groups know that the country is at a tipping point, and are attacking candidates and voters who favor a secular state.

The first is secular dictatorship.

Turkey s Secular Fundamentalist Threat

Customs that the Kemalist secular state suppressed, such as women s use of headscarves in public places, have reappeared, because rural Turks have more influence.

While the Tsarnaev brothers may have objected to the supposed vanity of the secular state, there is another sense in which they might be right that Russia and the West are not so different from each other.

Now a constitutional reform supposedly aimed at promoting Turkey s EU membership would further curb the army s role as the guardian of the secular state and strengthen government control of the judiciary.

Many senior Americans were puzzled that Turkey, a long standing NATO ally and a secular state, refused to allow American forces to use Turkey as a base to invade Iraq.

It's a victory for secular democracy in India.

The secular establishment argues that the AKP s moderation thus far reflects the checks and balances implied by secularist control of the presidency.

And, in order to enable the full enjoyment of our freedoms be they of worship or scientific research the state must reassert its secular nature.

Liberté Conditionnelle explains

Egyptians are drafting their very own secular law on Twitter.

The secular state, supported by feminist groups and some transnational non governmental organizations, banned female genital mutilation in 1999, without triggering massive Muslim protests.

As with a secular dictatorship, Islamic dictatorship is ugly and destructive.

Why has religion returned to secular and democratic politics?

Similar warnings have been repeated over and over by oppressive rulers in the Middle East, not least by Egypt s Hosni Mubarak either the secular police state or the Islamists either Mubarak or the Muslim Brotherhood.

But what is alarming is how private religious beliefs and morals have increasingly shaped the secular agenda of America, whose Founding Fathers had specifically designed the Constitution to separate state and church.

Aggressive secularists and extremists feed off each other.

Massive public demonstrations were held in Istanbul to support Turkey s Kemalist secular tradition.

The literature of this time was composed of religious writings as well as secular works.

Despite the existence of constitutionally guaranteed secularism and freedom of choice regarding childbirth, the mainstream political and media discourse in Macedonia is saturated with anti choice religious references, including in state sponsored public campaigns against abortion.

The Alevis, who had been protected by the secular Kemalist state, deeply distrust Erdoğan, who further unsettled them by planning to name a new bridge over the Bosphorus after a sixteenth century sultan who massacred their forebears.

The secular state and religious groups have cooperated on AIDS prevention to the extent AIDS affects only about 1 of the population, compared to more than 20 in some African countries.

The debate between religious fundamentalism and secular democracy is not a new one on the subcontinent.

Those attitudes and dispositions were transferred from religious texts to secular forms of education.

Eastern Asia The eastern Asia legal tradition reflects a unique blend of secular and religious influences.

This tranquility has been helped by the elaborate rituals of respect that have developed between the secular state and the Sufi orders, and the excellent relations between the country s Muslim majority and the Catholic minority at all levels of society.

The Committee takes note of the information supplied by the State party on the implementation of the Act of 15 March 2004 governing the wearing of symbols or clothing denoting religious affiliation in State primary and secondary schools, in pursuance of the principle of secularism.

Drawing Kazakhstan westward would help embed this secular tradition.

In the event of an Islamist political awakening, the army s allegiances are not guaranteed.

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It is also used to distinguish between religious authority (for example Canon law) and secular authority.

Its driving ideological force was a European inspired secular nationalism, which strove for political and social modernization through top down government action.

AB I would say that there are many, many gaps in secular life and these can be plugged.

Many non government organizations, both secular and religious, also opposed the resolution.

Proposing secularism the historic approach of Western liberals is political suicide.

Today s trade and currency battles would then become a Kulturkampf.

In fact, secularism in Senegal resembles that in India more than anywhere else.

Yet the comparison with what the French call laicité is misleading.

The differences between French and Turkish secularism can be put in even sharper comparative perspective.

Indeed, the Muslim Brotherhood government and the secular opposition both complained about America s relationship with the other.