Word: secularizing
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...means Iraqis can begin to come to terms with their personal losses. Baghdad, filled first with rejoicing, then recriminations, after Saddam's fall, has shifted now to bearing witness. People gather at prison gates to review their life inside, a diet of torture and starvation. Shiites describe the secular indignities imposed by Saddam. And families of the missing wander from prisoner welfare groups to empty government offices in search of answers they dared not ask when the Sunni regime was still in power...
...Dutch art was a kind of vanguard art because of its interest in naturalistic representation and secular subjects,” Robinson said. “It was always considered a kind of art apart, just as the Dutch republic was a kind of novel form of government and regarded with disdain by aristocratic and monarchical regimes. So in that sense, Dutch art was a kind of revolutionary, innovative art in the 17th century...
...religious passions as they had in Saudi Arabia, Osama bin Laden's homeland, during Gulf War I. "The Iraqi population is completely different," Wolfowitz told National Public Radio on February 19. "The Iraqis are among the most educated people in the Arab world. They are by and large quite secular. They are overwhelmingly Shiite, which is different from the Wahabbis of the Peninsula. They don't bring the sensitivity of having the holy cities of Islam on their territory...
...observed the hundreds of thousands of Shiites performing a religious ritual in Iraq this week, you might question Wolfowitz's assumptions. In fact, Iraq's 15 million Shiites, around 65 percent of the population, are not by and large secular. They are, indeed, extremely sensitive about having holy cities of Islam on their territory. Yes, Mecca and Medina are in Saudi Arabia, but this week's ritual was performed in Kerbala, which along with Najaf are Iraqi cities which have been venerated for 14 centuries by Shiites as the resting places of their two most revered imams, Ali and Hussein...
...provisional government headed up by their favorite Iraqi exile, Ahmed Chalabi, whom they emphasize is in tune with the President's wider Mideast agenda. A U.S. official traveling with Chalabi in Iraq last week told TIME that the INC leader was "the only one" who could create a viable secular democratic government in Iraq...