Sentence examples for secular democracies from inspiring English sources
He came to identify with political Salafiya, denouncing secular democracies and declaring Sufis and Shia "heretics".
They settled on the fact that both countries were secular democracies, and deeply religious societies, and somehow combined the two.
True, rising powers like India and Brazil are stable, secular democracies that appear to be hewing closely to the Western model.
WHETHER strong religious identity, and the ethical views that go with it, necessarily undercut national identity has long furrowed brows, especially in Western secular democracies with heavy immigration.
Ian Buruma and Timothy Garton Ash praised him as a thinker who can reach young European Muslims and help them to reconcile their religious identity with citizenship in secular democracies.
When questions of Islam and Muslims join the debate, his stance is that of a reconciler: he wants to make it possible for young Muslims to affirm their religious faith as an identity while fully participating as citizens of secular democracies.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is a journalist and a founder of British Muslims for Secular Democracy To me, secularism means more than simply living a life without religion.
Our founding fathers created a secular democracy".
They reject pluralism, secular democracy and, to some degree, modernity.
Will Iraq become a secular democracy or a new theocracy?
Israel, he wrote, is a "vibrant secular democracy".
