Word: secularization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...There has been a great deal of nonsense written about Bush's religious convictions, much of it emanating from Europe - a continent where God has been relegated to the back pews - and from secular intellectuals at home. So let's be clear: Bush's public piety is not unique or extreme among Presidents. At the dawn of the cold war, Harry Truman said, "I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose. And up to now we have been shirking...
Decades hence, Saddam brought the secular Baath ideology to ruling power in Iraq, with its vision of Arab racial superiority and an ongoing bloody revolution marking the ascendancy of Arab global domination. The Baath party principles state: “The Baath is a revolutionary party. It believes that its principal aims in realizing an Arab national renaissance and of building socialism will not be attained except by revolution and struggle...
...that the goal of Revolution “is ascension, ascension and ascension.” The Baathist ideology issues a call for bloodshed in ever-widening conflict that disregards law and permits the mass murder of racially inferior groups. Only in recent years has Saddam clothed this originally secular ideology in Islamic religious language to convey his vision...
...Bangladesh to make a documentary on the state of the country. As a long-time reporter in Bangladesh, I was delighted to take the job. But these are perilous times in my homeland. The government holds power with the help of fundamentalist Islamic groups that are changing Bangladesh's secular character; local Hindus and Christians are fleeing to neighboring India in the thousands, and the authorities are furious at media reports that Bangladesh is playing host to jihadis from Afghanistan and beyond. Rather than address these concerns, the government has systematically muzzled journalists and opposition leaders...
...city in the West Bank. But after more than two years of deadly intifadeh, says Netanyahu, "this election is a repudiation of Oslo." Many Israeli voters rejected more than just the peace agreement. Turnout was the lowest in Israeli history, and the biggest proportionate gains were by the ardently secular Shinui Party. The likely coalition architecture makes the diplomatic task facing Sharon and Netanyahu tricky. Netanyahu's plan is to say that Israel only wants to apply the same principles to its fight against Palestinian violence that President George W. Bush is pressing in the post-Sept. 11 era. That...