Word: secularize
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...have the kinds of arguments about religion that we have today. Even the fight over intelligent design, to me, is a harbinger of a trend, which is that the religious world is increasingly willing to put its issues on the table and discuss them in the context of the secular world. Let's argue about evolution vs. creation, using the framework that secular science has given...
...point, Ibrahim said last month’s Iraqi constitution failed to create appropriate boundaries between religion and the state. He said that many Muslims interpret “secular” as “anti-religious,” leading them to resist the Western emphasis on secular government. Ibrahim stressed that terrorism “must be condemned universally,” saying that extremist interpretations of Islam demonstrate “a failure to comprehend the religion, an obsolete understanding, a truncated view.” Many Malaysian students attended the talk and asked Ibrahim questions...
...Alito as a right-wing judicial activist who will continue to chip away at or perhaps even overturn the right to an abortion; roll back civil rights and liberties, especially in the realms of race and gender discrimination and crime and punishment; and permit religion to encroach into the secular arena. In a moment of surprising candor, Alito provided new fodder for his critics last week, telling Senators that the high court may have gone too far in recent years in keeping the church out of public life...
...Chalabi is not the Bush Administration's first choice to preside over that coalition. "We have no preferences," a senior Administration official told me. Former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, a tough guy, secular Shi'ite and former CIA client, was the White House's covert favorite in last January's election, but he received only 14% of the vote. Allawi is trying to be a better politician this time, building a coalition slate with prominent Kurds and Sunnis. And he has credibility-and contacts-with the less extreme elements of the Sunni insurgency. But Allawi has limited appeal among religious...
...writers are president, vice-president, and minister of truth, respectively, of the Harvard Secular Society...