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But soon the secular press began writing about creeping Islamization, and the military started issuing public and private warnings.
In meetings with judges, academics, journalists and civil leaders, the top brass pointed out that Turkish law calls on the army to protect the "secular state."
So Turkey’s political system came, once more, under the control of a secular party.
In May, the state prosecutor filed a suit in Turkey's constitutional court to have Refah, which is not a new party by any means, banned on the grounds that it is a religious party in a secular state.
One proposal is a shift from a parliamentary system to a presidential system; another seeks to cut back the number of major parties from seven to two or three--aimed partly at consolidating voters in secular parties that would outnumber Refah,.
Between February and June this year, the generals demanded that private Koranic instruction be brought under government control, that all Islamist social activities be restricted, that public and school dress codes be fully secular, and that the number of pupils in religious schools be limited.
The signing of a new unity deal between Hamas and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s secular Fatah party earlier this month has heightened an unprecedented struggle within Hamas over its future course as an Islamist movement.
While the Tsarnaev brothers may have objected to the supposed vanity of the secular state, there is another sense in which they might be right that Russia and the West are not so different from each other.
Those attitudes and dispositions were transferred from religious texts to secular forms of education.
Moreover, Western Europe is largely secular, whereas much of Central and Eastern Europe (not to mention the US) is more likely to link its identity to a religion-based moral order.
When Turkey became a democracy in 1950, the previous system’s secular Kemalist elites attempted to harness the power of the military and the bureaucracy to control the elected government.
CAMBRIDGE – Is today’s slow growth in advanced economies a continuation of long-term secular decline, or does it reflect the normal aftermath of a deep systemic financial crisis?
Others also certainly worry about secular decline, though most have emphasized the supply side rather than the demand side.
Some commentators have suggested that the root cause of secular decline, as well as the main explanation of ultra-low interest rates, is low fertility throughout the advanced world.
Whether Summers is right about secular stagnation in advanced economies, or whether we are still mainly suffering the aftermath of the financial crisis, it is time to break the political gridlock and restore growth.
Similar warnings have been repeated over and over by oppressive rulers in the Middle East, not least by Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak: either the secular police state or the Islamists; either Mubarak or the Muslim Brotherhood.
The greater the repression that religious parties face in secular police states, the more extreme their politics are likely to become.
Nor are Muslims the only ones to rebel against secular regimes in the name of their faith.
Americans seethed, and it appeared that the awkward alliance between a secular democracy and a secretive theocracy, cemented by common interests during the Cold War, was plunging into the abyss separating their values.
For the many, by contrast, there has been only secular stagnation, with depressed employment and stagnating wages.
This time, the damage caused by the Great Recession is subjecting most advanced economies to secular stagnation and creating major structural growth challenges for emerging markets.
In this unlikely scenario, market expectations would adjust accordingly and rates would rise (saving glut and secular stagnation notwithstanding).
On the contrary, it promises more asset bubbles, financial crises, and Japanese-style secular stagnation.
Indeed, though environmentalists and secular youth spearheaded the protest movement, it became remarkably diverse and inclusive almost overnight.
A striking feature of the protests has been the distance that the demonstrators have put between themselves and existing political parties, including the Republican People’s Party (CHP), the largest force in the center-left secular opposition.
Arab Israelis, however, represent a considerable labor pool (as does the Orthodox Jewish community, among whom the labor-force participation rate is much lower than among secular Jews).
Nigerians living with HIV must do more than just fight the infection; they also must brave social stigma, weather discrimination by secular and religious institutions, and now, potentially, face threats from the legal system.
The American preference for making anti-communist allies, however unsavory, tied Washington to Pakistan’s increasingly Islamist dictatorship, while India’s non-aligned democracy drifted toward the secular Soviet embrace.
The aim of that intervention was to replace the ruling Islamic Courts Union with a more secular government.
Mexico is already enjoying a manufacturing boom that has increased its exports to the US, following a long secular decline.
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