Word: secularizing
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While many of these abstinent students are religious—like Parker and Brinton, who are both Mormon—most of them cite secular reasons for not wanting to have sex. Many mention the possibility that sex could hurt the emotional aspects of a college relationship, and others say they believe that sex is meant to be an expression of a life-long commitment, a commitment they are not ready to make...
...sides, recounting stories of unwarranted arrests, tortures, and evictions of Palestinians from their homes by Israeli officials, as well as suicide bombings and the culture of revenge that many Palestinian leaders breed. He also tells of youthful idealism and particularly his early hope for a “single, secular Jewish-Arab state,” which eventually evolves into his strong faith in a two-state solution. He recounts how standing in the middle can put one at odds with both sides, describing how he was considered both “the Palestinian people’s Enemy Number...
...Oren’s narrative, America is a country lead by the uninformed, fighting both a secular and a non-secular war. Attempts at peaceful negotiations or tribute have only led to aggression, and aggression has proved futile...
Safieh, a member of the secular Fatah party, said yesterday that his party’s coalition with Hamas has increased Palestinian political support for a peace accord with Israel...
...they drove Saddam's forces out of northern Iraq. But now, four years after the liberation of the rest of the country, Kurdish Iraq is undergoing an identity crisis. On the one hand, it is a rare success story in the Middle East: a stable territory run by a secular leadership committed to economic and political reform and sitting on a huge pool of oil. On the other hand, it is tiny and landlocked, uncomfortably attached to a war-ravaged nation and surrounded by unfriendly neighbors. Despite the region's outward signs of tranquillity, the fate of Kurdistan--whether...