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...West: "When the head of the biggest bank in the country is only 35," says Gumbel, "there's something quite fascinating going on." Berlin bureau chief Andrew Purvis looked at a different kind of line - that separating faith and the state - and found it blurring in both Germany and Turkey. "Secularism," says Purvis, "is no longer taken for granted in either place." Paris correspondent Bruce Crumley studied a reverse migration - not Muslims moving to Europe, but French expatriates settling in Morocco. "The Mediterranean frontier is obviously becoming more porous," he says, "but the nature of the flow differs radically based...
...alternative. "I believe in the importance of God and faith," he says. Such insistence that religion - any religion - should have a role in politics is echoing throughout Europe. After decades of rising secularism and declining church attendance, religion is now back on Europe's political agenda. Islamic terrorism and Turkey's hopes of entering the European Union have compelled politicians from Vienna to the Hague to declare their Christian identity; Pope Benedict XVI is making the war on secularism a defining feature of his papacy. France's presidential aspirant Nicolas Sarkozy suggested in a recent book that France might reconsider...
...begin "In the name of God Almighty" and describe Polish independence as a "gift from God." Still, however much Christians may be demanding social and political respect for their beliefs, Islam remains the driver for the new debates between religion and secularism. Nowhere is that more true than in Turkey, where issues that some - perhaps naively - thought had been resolved 80 years ago have now been reopened. In the 1920s, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founding father of the new Turkish Republic, sought to stampede his native land into modernity by restricting public displays of a religion whose expression...
...time, perhaps, the perceived contradictions between Europe's secular and religious traditions will wither away. Liberal values do not exclude religious practice; they can help it flourish. The reason Turkey's pro-Islamic government is so eager to join Europe, for example - and the reason it has been so disappointed by the opposition it has encountered on religious or cultural grounds - is that Europe's liberal traditions promise Turkey's conservative Muslims a degree of protection they do not have now. Europe has never - not even in the 1960s and '70s - been an entirely secular society. The need...
CASE DISMISSED. Against Elif Shafak, 35, best-selling novelist who faced charges of "insulting Turkishness"; due to a lack of evidence; in Istanbul. Shafak, whose book The Bastard of Istanbul deals with the legacy of Turkey's 1915 Armenian genocide, was the first novelist to be prosecuted for allegedly violating a controversial law prohibiting criticism of state institutions...