Word: secularization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Laden is an Islamic extremist and Saddam Hussein is a secular dictator—they don’t have a lot in common, their agendas are not very similar, and there’s no reason why you’d expect them to back each other,” he said. “I worry that [the U.S.] would be unwittingly giving them a reason to collaborate...
...form or another and in countries from the Mediterranean to the Pacific, they have existed for decades. But until recently, the groups conducted local campaigns against local targets. Algerian organizations like the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), for example, focused their operations on the hated, secular Algerian government. In a similar vein, terrorist organizations in Pakistan concentrated on pressing the government to adopt Islamic law and waging a guerrilla war in Kashmir...
...desperately needs if she and her party are to be returned to office in the 2004 elections. Says Arbi Sanit, a lecturer in politics at the University of Indonesia: "Every politician in Indonesia needs the Islamic vote, and with Megawati it's even more so because of her secular background...
...said that while there are several instances in secular life where Americans are confronted with religion—for instance, “In God We Trust” is printed on all American currency—“many of these cases have no impact on human life...
...journalist and lawyer who was among the first to represent minorities in the old Austro-Hungarian Empire - and ends in the present day. But the focus is on the years just before World War II. With a storyteller's eye, Judit describes an unlikely mixture of worldly and parochial, secular and devout, in 1930s Budapest. Her father Imre was at the top of his class in a private school but unable to attend university because of restrictions on Jewish admission. As a result, he immersed himself in photography, developing his own darkroom techniques and leaving behind a striking black...