Word: secularization
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...after a five-year battle she wins - except the court also rules that states are free to establish head-scarf bans of their own. Confused? You're not alone. In these three cases - all making news in the past few weeks - religious freedom and cultural identity clash with secular ideals. In all three, the decision-makers said they were upholding their countries' laws on the separation of church or mosque and state. But taken together, the cases raise uncomfortable questions about tolerance. Why, for instance, should a religious symbol like a crucifix be acceptable in a public school - as Italians...
...self-deluding. To be sure, bin Laden has urged his followers to head for Iraq to wage jihad, and hundreds may have answered his call. It may well be that some of the suicide terror strikes on soft targets are the work of foreigners, the Baathists being a secular lot who prefer to live to fight another day (as their surrender of Baghdad six months ago amply illustrates). Nobody really knows precisely who is behind the terror strikes or the escalating guerrilla war against U.S. and coalition forces. Besides the spectacular suicide strikes, in the past week alone there have...
...Kennedy was a firm believer in the U.N.,” said Sorensen. “With the help of Muslim, Catholic and secular countries, the United States would be much further along in this war on terrorism...
...appreciation for the nation united “under God,” would be forever engrained in their young, impressionable minds. Those seemingly innocuous memories, however, have since garnered new meaning, stirring a growing sect in the country to take issue with the pledge’s non-secular phrase...
...even possible) Bush will see that we are out of Iraq by next year, probably August or September. Then, he will again celebrate "mission accomplished", Americans will celebrate, polls will skyrocket, and he will get his landslide. After a few months, Iraq will slide into a theocracy or another secular dictatorship, but we will ignore it, just as we ignore Afghanistan today. Joy Williams Allen, Texas...