Word: secularizing
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...wanting to befriend another would do: she shimmied alongside them at parties and joined them for kosher pizza, and was soon enough sitting beside the girls’ parents at the dining table as their dinner guest. The fact that the girls were enthralled with Levine’s secular life didn’t hurt, either...
...girls really had a sort of impishness, and a lack of self-consciousness on the whole that is very rare in secular society,” Levine says. “There was not this sort of competition for the male affection. The girls would jump up and down, tease their teachers—an impishness I had never seen,” she says with an emphatic wave of her hand...
Rather than being defeated by the U.S.-led war on terrorism, Islamic militants seem to be methodically widening their holy war against the U.S. and its allies. Turkey made an obvious target. Even under the current Islamic-party government, democratic Turkey has remained staunchly secular and pro-Western. It was the first Muslim nation to recognize Israel, and cultivates extensive ties with the Jewish state. Long a faithful U.S. ally and member of NATO, Turkey aspires to join the European Union. Although its populace bitterly opposed the war in Iraq and its Parliament refused to let the U.S. deploy soldiers...
...methods, will make it difficult for militants who are thought to have used Turkey as a transfer point for personnel and money flowing between Europe and the Middle East. The Islamist-leaning party of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is under intense pressure from Turkey's political opposition and secular establishment to prove it can get tough on terrorists. "Turkey," he said, "will be like a fist...
...been studying religion at a school that taught from a secular perspective, or taken the same courses but not as a theology major, he says he would have been allowed to keep the money...