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

The secular opposition s accession to power on the back of a tank might feed the Islamists rage for years to come.

Popular movements have brought a range of avowedly Islamist political parties to power, replacing the largely secular former regimes.

The End of Secularism?

A revolution in any of these countries might easily bring Islamists to power, but this would have little to do with Tunisia s secular uprising.

This unusually assertive stance reflects rising frustration among Christians, as well as the secular and liberal opposition, with the Muslim Brotherhood s power monopoly.

The first is secular dictatorship.

Turkey s Secular Fundamentalist Threat

The ideological forces and the currency of power have also changed, with political Islam replacing secularism while skillfully integrating social issues and revolutionary, anti Western nationalism.

We also know their leaders long term goals seize power in Muslim countries and attack the Western states that support secular regimes in the Islamic world.

For Hamas, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is a transitional figure, to be swept away together with his secular PLO in the revolutionary drive to an Islamic society.

It's a victory for secular democracy in India.

Meanwhile, the significance of the reconciliation agreement signed last May by Hamas and Fatah, the secular nationalist movement that controls the Palestinian Authority, remains uncertain.

The power struggle between the Islamist Hamas and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and his secular nationalist Fatah movement is intensifying, with tensions breaking into outright combat.

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

Liberté Conditionnelle explains

Egyptians are drafting their very own secular law on Twitter.

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

Why has religion returned to secular and democratic politics?

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.

Palestinian politics is approaching the point of no return. The power struggle between the Islamist Hamas and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and his secular nationalist Fatah movement is intensifying, with tensions breaking into outright combat.

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.

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.

Drawing Kazakhstan westward would help embed this secular tradition.

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

And Shahinaz Abdel Salam notes

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

When Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan s Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in 2002, it not only lacked a democratic culture, but also had much to fear about how the secularist military old guard might react.

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.

After the revolution, secularism and the place of Islam have been the centre of heated debates on social media platforms and Tunisian blogs.

This refers to two different types of power, which are possession of power and exercising power.

The difference between what the French call laicité and secularism is more than a linguistic nuance for Turkey, which adopted its Kemalist system not long after France entrenched its secular republic.

A factor that promoted the spread of secularism was the Church's inability to offer assistance against the Black Death.

The Chinuch Atzmai schools focus almost entirely on Torah study and offer very little in terms of secular subjects.