In 1950, Turkey had the first free and fair elections, which ended the more autocratic secular regime, which was the beginning of Turkey.

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But, of course, our secular religion is technology.

Think of it as a kind of secular church.

Why has religion returned to secular and democratic politics?

They ensure that India remains secular, democratic and pluralistic.

My madness is on a smaller, more secular scale.

There are secular kooks there are smart kooks, dumb kooks.

But the secular minded people can be influenced by that.

The Federal and State Governments are secular in this country.

After the ouster of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the US turned its sights on the secular dictatorship of Saddam Hussein s Iraq. Instead of encouraging reform of the Saudi Wahhabi regime the system that spawned 15 of the 19 hijackers in the 9 11 attacks the average Muslim saw America as waging war on a regime that had nothing to do with that crime.

After the ouster of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the US turned its sights on the secular dictatorship of Saddam Hussein s Iraq. Instead of encouraging reform of the Saudi Wahhabi regime the system that spawned 15 of the 19 hijackers in the 9 11 attacks the average Muslim saw America as waging war on a regime that had nothing to do with that crime.

Why is there such disparity between the secular realm and the sacred?

Gul s wife s headscarf was interpreted as the symbol of darker changes to come. If the First Lady wears a headscarf, maintained the secular minded elite, the whole secular system could be undermined.

Like Saddam, President Bashar al Assad heads a secular regime that rules through brutal repression. The determination in the West to depose him in the name of human rights and democracy was perceived by the Sunni majority as an opportunity to overthrow their oppressor.

The regime has been effective in exploiting that uncertainty by spreading the fear of an Egyptian scenario, in which the weakness of secular activists leads to a takeover by the Muslim Brothers and jihadis. In fact, it is difficult to separate cause from effect.

We are a secular country blessed with a large and growing Muslim community.

With Morsi s victory, some now fear that the Muslim Brotherhood will seek to implement radical policies aimed at Islamizing a Muslim country that is already conservative, but that has had a secular government for decades. Others do not believe that the Muslim Brotherhood will go so far, but nonetheless doubt that the Brothers will defend a secular, truly democratic regime in the ongoing negotiations with SCAF on a transition to civilian rule.

Property regime

But compassion is also equally at home in the secular as in the religious.

The legal regime envisaged in the Guide is a purely domestic regime.

On the one hand was my mother, a well educated, secular, modern, westernized, Turkish woman.

Kazakhstan is a secular State, and any discrimination against women based on sex is prohibited.

Self contained regime

2. Contractual regime

(c) The regime is a military regime which has absolute control over the country

It also stipulates that education offered by the State shall be secular and free of charge.

How to bridge the gap in developing countries between secular, more or less Westernized urban elites and the rural poor is an old question. One solution is to enforce secular modernization by oppressing the poor and their religious organizations.

The armed forces, however, claim a constitutional mandate to protect the Republic s secular traditions. And Turkey s generals have intervened in politics several times to defend Kemalism Atatürk s secular ideology of modernization that pushed Islamic Turkey towards European style liberalism.

The Algerian secularists strategy of exclusion, fraud, cheating, and gerrymandering backfired badly Islamists were perceived as victims, while secularists with some exceptions were cast as unprincipled opportunists. Enforcing a secular constitution before elections does not guarantee a secular outcome.

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The human rights regime

(a) The common regime.

(b) The special regime.

The regime is pitiless.

The second largest group, of nearly 30 million, is the one described as non religious or secular.

This secular non religious vote, if properly mobilized, is nine times as numerous as the Jewish vote.

We lived under apartheid regime.

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Basis of the sanctions regime

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