Word: secularized
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...head of Indonesia's main Muslim political group, the United Development Party, the third largest party in parliament; in 1999 he opposed Megawati's first bid for the presidency on the ground that the world's largest Muslim country should not be run by a woman. Megawati's secular Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle controls just one-third of the seats in parliament. High unemployment and chronic government corruption have caused many to doubt her resolve to tackle tough problems. So to hang on to power and get re-elected in 2004, Megawati can't afford to ignore the conservatives...
ISRAEL Hizballah's Henchmen Israel's military is its most honored secular institution, with a reputation for ruthless efficiency and impregnability. That almost mythic image suffered a heavy blow last week, with the revelation that the army had a spy in its senior ranks. Lieut. Colonel Omar al-Hayeb, a Bedouin Arab from a well-known tribe in northern Israel, was remanded by a Tel Aviv court on charges he traded secrets to the Lebanese fundamentalist group Hizballah for a lucrative role in the drug route across the Lebanon-Israel border. Officials said Al-Hayeb passed on maps, details about...
Horn left Cambridge with an M.Phil in modern Hebrew and the beginnings of In the Image, a novel that strives to demonstrate how secular American culture is infused with Judaic traditions of language and thought. The book is modeled thematically and linguistically on the Book of Job, in which a holy man curses God after suffering numerous losses...
...scholar of Hebrew and Yiddish literature, Horn is naturally interested in Jewish languages. She explains that even modern secular texts in these languages cannot elude their Biblical associations. In her novel, Horn strives to endow her English prose with this same Biblical force, merging the secular and religious in the story of a modern Job whose life’s obsession—taking snapshots of ancient religious sites—is destroyed during a hurricane...
...friction is greatest on the question of whether Iraq and al-Qaeda are working together against the U.S. Some intelligence analysts accuse Bush of grasping at examples that imply an alliance while ignoring others that don't--like the fact that in the past the secular Saddam and the fundamentalist bin Laden have not been ideological soul mates. (Bin Laden offered to fight against Saddam when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1991.) Complicating the fight is the fact that the spooks don't want to overlook evidence on Iraq--as they did with al-Qaeda--so they are trying to turn...