Word: secularize
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...Jaafari, took charge, a severe irritant to many Sunnis. "The insurgents see al-Jaafari as a traitor, a man who spent the Iran-Iraq war in Iran," says a senior military officer. "And many of the best officers we have trained in the new Iraqi army--Sunnis and secular Shi'ites who served in Saddam's army--feel the same way." Al-Jaafari did not help matters by opening diplomatic ties with Iran, apologizing for Iraq's behavior in the Iran-Iraq war and cutting economic deals with the Iranians...
DIED. NURCHOLISH MADJID, 66, prominent Indonesian intellectual who became known as the conscience of his nation for persistently advocating a moderate form of Islam and insisting that his mostly Muslim country remain secular; of liver and kidney failure; in Jakarta. The author of several books, including the popular Doors to God (he emphasized the plural), he is credited with persuading hard-line President Suharto to step down...
...Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. Born there in 1950, she went to religious school in her early years. Bryna says her photographer father longed to move to Israel, but his mother, who had fled to a better life in the U.S. from Russia, wouldn't accept it. "They were secular, and when he said he wanted to move to Israel in 1953, my grandmother said, 'You're crazy! They're starving there. They have ration cards! You have a wife and kids to feed. You can't!' He always regretted that." Bryna was determined to fulfill his dream "because...
...Hilburgs buckled down to the practical business of turning Gaza's sand into fruitful farmland. They had six children: three are married, two are in the army, and the children profess a range of religious faith, from ultra-Orthodox to secular. Their second son Yochanan was killed in 1997, at age 22, while serving in an élite Israeli commando unit during a raid into Lebanon. The Hilburgs defied family members who urged that Yochanan receive a military funeral in Jerusalem. "He loved it here," says Bryna. "We decided he would be buried here, where he lived, where...
...caravilla parks is at Nitzan, a small town north of the Gaza Strip separated by high dunes from the aquamarine seashore. Some of its 350 caravillas are inhabited by the families who have already left the three non-religious Gaza Strip settlements along the north of the fence. These ?secular? settlers moved without a fight because they were for the most part originally drawn to Gaza by the economic incentives offered by the government for living there, rather than by the religious settlers' zeal to ?redeem? the Holy Land. From the sky, we see children's swimming pools and bicycles...