Word: secularization
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...religious passions as they had in Saudi Arabia, Osama bin Laden's homeland, during Gulf War I. "The Iraqi population is completely different," Wolfowitz told National Public Radio on February 19. "The Iraqis are among the most educated people in the Arab world. They are by and large quite secular. They are overwhelmingly Shiite, which is different from the Wahabbis of the Peninsula. They don't bring the sensitivity of having the holy cities of Islam on their territory...
...provisional government headed up by their favorite Iraqi exile, Ahmed Chalabi, whom they emphasize is in tune with the President's wider Mideast agenda. A U.S. official traveling with Chalabi in Iraq last week told TIME that the INC leader was "the only one" who could create a viable secular democratic government in Iraq...
Lyons says that an understanding of a society very unlike our secular one is necessary for any long-term relationship with the Muslim world...
...Crimson’s position is not tolerant, neither is it pluralistic, nor inclusive. Let us call it what it is: hostile, rampantly secular, and overtly anti-Christian...
...objection to the U.S. presence - as long as it is temporary. Of course there's a fierce struggle for influence among Shiite clerics right now, in which context a prominent pro-U.S. ayatollah was stabbed to death last week. And many Iraqi Shiites take their politics secular. But SCIRI's leadership has considerable influence in Najaf, and if they're alienated from the process launched by General Garner, political stability could prove elusive. If the U.S. objective is to exclude groups with ties to Iran, that could put it on a collision course with many Iraqi Shia...