December is the last month of the secular calendar.

The rule of secular law is the most delicate prerequisite of a liberal order.

A few hope for a single secular democratic state.

Nor does the old secular religious divide have much salience anymore.

Приказы Верховного Главнокомандующего в период Великой Отечественной войны Светского Союза.

The campaign was designed to serve several purposes, including the suppression of any free, secular thinking.

Linda Jaivin is a renaissance woman who describes herself as a secular humanist.

Papal authority stands on shaky ground, especially in the comparatively secular West.

Liberté Conditionnelle, a Tunisian blogger, is a supporter of a Secular Tunisia, but its secularism should be Tunisian.

Without being a scientific secular nation, no nation can be a modern state.

Right next to it, though, was the Turkish flag in duplicate a central symbol of secular Turkish nationalism.

During his reign, the nature of the state changed to a secular and liberal one, with emphasis on cultural integration.

In the 1920 s and 1930 s the years of Atutűrk s rule the new Turkish women became the icon of the modern, secular regime.

In the 1920 s and 1930 s the years of Atutűrk s rule 45 45 the new Turkish women became the icon of the modern, secular regime.

This is a breakthrough, not only for LGBT people, but for secularism and for all democracy.

Implementing secular teaching of religion and giving approval to associations who offer intercultural or inter religious awareness to the Ministry of National Education.

Today, this seems to be the major dividing line between Islam and the West, because many Muslims reject the secular state. But before we endorse the idea of an irreducible clash of civilizations, we should consider why modern secular liberalism arose in the West in the first place.

The secular argument that Morsi s lust for power jeopardized Egypt s nascent democracy does not bear scrutiny. Secular, military, and Mubarak era foes of the Muslim Brotherhood have used every lever at their disposal, democratic or not, to block the Islamist parties democratic exercise of power.

The secular argument that Morsi s lust for power jeopardized Egypt s nascent democracy does not bear scrutiny.

Today, this seems to be the major dividing line between Islam and the West, because many Muslims reject the secular state.

Egypt s vibrant political life, press, and liberal culture were then supported by an ideology of secular nationalism and improved religious harmony.

Fundamentalist Islamic groups, indeed, raised the most consistent challenge to Megawati's secular'' government even before the attacks on America.

The trained insight of a Society man enabled Vronsky with a single glance to decide that she belonged to the best Society.

Established in 1908 as a bastion of secular education, Cairo University later became a stronghold of Islamist student groups in the 1970s.

From the AKP s point of view, the Constitutional Court and the judiciary in general had replaced the military as the last bastion of Turkey s secularist establishment.

Iranians had had the temerity to elect a progressive, secular prime minister who believed that the country s oil belonged to its people, not to the United Kingdom or the US.

The AKP s resounding victory means that the Turkish republic originally shaped as a secular state by Kemal Ataturk in the 1920 s is dead.

It has been five days since the assassination of secular blogger Niloy Neel but Bangladesh police authorities have made no significant progress investigating his murder.

Prime Minister Hasina Sheikh has blamed the opposition, saying that they are orchestrating the attacks to destabilize the country and upset her secular rule.

The historical failure named Iraq war, the demise of secular Arab nationalism and the soaring oil and gas prices have wrought profound changes in the region.

Although there is no doubt that the military, as the bastion of the secular establishment, does not like these results, a coup is virtually out of the question.

But both ordinary AKP supporters and disillusioned secularists are now suspicious of America s actions and motives in the region.

As a result, in places like Egypt, Christians have faced harsh social discrimination and violence, sometimes at the hands of the nominally secular state.

This has given new strength to those who want Turkey to develop in another direction, towards a more Islamic society instead of a modern secular state.

In 2009, the Constitutional Court struck down the article enabling religious education from the Law on Primary Education for violating the secular character of the state.

But, with the decline of secular nationalism and Islamism s rise, the hidden electoral power of the Muslim Brotherhood poses a mortal threat to the regime and its strategic alliance with the West.

That does not bode well for a domino effect, as no other Arab country has either a strong middle class or a tradition of modern, secular government.

The German philosopher Karl Jaspers once said that European liberty was founded on the antitheses of the secular world and transcendence, science and faith, material technology and religion.''

Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, a close associate of Erdogan in the AKP, pressed Turkey s application to join the European Union. So when Erdogan decided to nominate Gul as the AKP candidate for the presidency, I was surprised by the strength of the secularist opposition.

So when Erdogan decided to nominate Gul as the AKP candidate for the presidency, I was surprised by the strength of the secularist opposition.

First, the rise of an Arab political class that is more influenced by religion than by secular nationalism has eroded the main structural barrier to Turkish engagement.

Having suffered the oppressive practices of Turkey's secular state and recognizing that human rights must be protected across the board, the AKP emerged as a credible interlocutor with the West.

Moreover, Kazakhstan, though a Muslim majority country, has established the type of secular, multi ethnic, and multi religious polity that the West is seeking to encourage throughout the Muslim world.

The protesters who ended Ben Ali s regime are the educated sons and daughters of the large, secular middle class that was built over decades by Habib Bourguiba.

The general, who offered the father of modern Turkey, Kemal Atatürk, as his model, also seemed to represent a vision for his country that combined economic growth with support for secularizing impulses.