Word: secularize
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...reality is that the cartoons simply aggravated an ongoing international problem: dealing with radical Islam in secular Western societies. Reactions around the world have shown how widespread this crisis is: Jakarta’s Danish Embassy was attacked by Muslim mobs, several Muslim religious leaders in the Middle East called for a “day of anger” and demonstrators in London burned flags and embassies were torched in Damascus...
...movement, bound together by a dogmatic faith, faces the seeming horror of a pluralistic democracy in which everyone has the right to blaspheme, offend, and shock others. To repress speech in the interest of curtailing blasphemy would be to subscribe to a particular religious dogma, which a liberal, secular government ought never do. Before democracy can be established in the Middle East, the violent protesters and conservative governments must demonstrate respect for freedom of speech. Ramya Parthasarathy ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, lives in Stoughton Hall...
They chose Annenberg because it was both sizeable and secular, according to Rohr...
...Iraq and the Palestinian territories, as well as the escalating confrontation over Iran's nuclear ambitions. Those developments have emboldened forces in the region who benefit from seeing the frustration felt by Muslims about their lives channeled into hostility toward the West, forces that range from radical clerics to secular Arab autocrats. In that sense, the cartoon uproar may have a lot less to do with religion or culture than with politics. "Arabs should have responded in a cooler way," says Mourad Gharib, 42, a journalist in Cairo. "But it's as though we're standing on a hot piece...
...hokey line from a Disney movie, but it is generally true. A hundred years ago, Europeans were a deeply religious people, deeply committed to Christian beliefs and to spreading the Good News throughout the world. This belief was not, however, necessarily religious; there is also an important tradition of secular belief in the superiority of European culture, in the mission civilatrice, and in a duty to make the world a better place. Even the Soviets, for all of their manifest flaws and unspeakable crimes, saw themselves as people with a purpose, as a vanguard, and as revolutionaries leading humanity towards...