Word: secularization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...country has been facing its most deadly spasm of violence in a year: last month alone, attacks killed more than 600 Iraqis, many of them Shi'ites targeted by Sunni jihadis bent on sowing civil war. The country's universities have long served as the bulwark of Iraq's secular society, refuges from the sectarian strife that threatens to rip the country apart. But now violence has come to the campuses. A rocket attack on an engineering college in the heart of Baghdad two weeks ago killed two students and injured 17 others. Bombs have been found at several colleges...
...fans like to describe our passion in religious terms, as if the places our heroes play are secular cathedrals. It's easy to see why. When you truly, deeply love a sports team, you give yourself up to something bigger than yourself, not just because your individuality is rendered insignificant in the mass of the crowd, but because being a fan involves faith. No matter what its current form may be, your team is worthy of blind devotion?or will soon redeem itself. Belief is all. As Brooklyn Dodgers fans said in the 1950s: Wait 'til next year...
...President Pervez Musharraf responded with a call to oppose "anyone trying to incite hatred." But sectarian violence has worsened under his reign. Musharraf has been reluctant to act against militant groups, largely to avoid alienating the fundamentalist political parties keeping his secular political opposition at bay. "The government does not recognize the threat homegrown terrorists pose to the stability of Pakistan," says Samina Ahmed of the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based NGO. "Isn't it time the government recognized the price of the game being played...
...fans like to describe our devotion - the word says a lot - in religious terms, as if the places our heroes play were secular cathedrals. It's easy to see why. When you truly, deeply love a sports team, you give yourself up to something bigger than yourself, not just because your individuality is rendered insignificant in the crush of the crowd, but because being a fan involves faith. No matter what their current form may be, your team is the best - and if it doesn't prove that now, it will soon. Belief is all. As Brooklyn Dodgers fans said...
...more than the intellect-driven, dogmatically conservative transitional figure they expect him to be. My first impression of his papacy is that it is promising. Daniel Breitenmoser St. Gallen, Switzerland Praise God for a conservative Pope. The world does not need a Pope who would bend to its questionable secular values. What is necessary is to have leaders who will stand up for what's right and fight for the morals of God's timeless word. Each generation has lowered the bar a little further and been more lenient than the previous generation. It's time we raise our standards...