Secularists

I was happily surprised to see this artist who seems to belong to the tribe of free-spirited Israeli secularists, a tribe with deep roots in this miraculous, heartbreaking country, address her audience in prayer.

There is no real secularism amongst those who call themselves secularists.

For secularists, he is a troublemaker and provocateur, while for politicians who like to exploit religion, he is a vote getter.

Her parents, Gulam Ali Khairaz and Sheereen, both Ulemas and intellectual secularists, imbibed Islamic values in her at an early age, while her late husband Shaukat Ali encouraged her to complete her major education post-marriage in the 1980s.

At the University of Notre Dame this past Friday Attorney General Barr “secularists” who were bent on destroying a country which is fundamentally made for a religious people.

For this election, he ran a non-sectarian campaign focused on issues of social justice, allying with secularists and Iraq’s communist party, and broadening support beyond his traditional base.

Make no mistake, the secularists will not, cannot be more peaceable than Erdogan.

No, because, you see, when secularists stop me from installing a poster of the 10 commandments outside my office or want to teach evolution to my kids or don’t want to say “merry Christmas”, they are oppressing my religious freedom.

The Syrian opposition has devolved into a factionalized mess over the course of the war, with secularists losing power to Islamists and their most extreme iteration, Salafi jihadists.

To those secularists who see religious subversion of secular values, there is a simple answer.

Bismarck, a devout pietistic Protestant, was alarmed that secularists and socialists were using the Kulturkampf to attack all religion.

Local organizations work to raise the profile of secularism in their communities and tend to include secularists, freethinkers, atheists, agnostics, and humanists under their organizational umbrella.

Moin Khomeini, (2000), p. 297 Even many secularists who firmly disapproved of his policies were said to feel the power of his "messianic" appeal.

They were secularists and indeed were following liberal tradition of disestablishing the powerful role the Catholic Church once held.