Sentence examples for secular dictators from inspiring English sources

Secular dictators have an interest in exaggerating the menace.

Yet it was barely a month ago that Blair suggested that the enemy was extreme Islamism, not secular dictators.

He tied the current "disaster" in the region to what he said was a US policy of toppling secular dictators.

And the reason we got here is because we took it upon ourselves to topple secular dictators who were the enemy of radical Islam".

Should the United States and its allies remain wary of toppling Mr. Assad, one of the region's last secular dictators, whose rule, however repressive, has kept the forces of populist Islam in check?

The fall of the secular dictators Ben Ali and Mubarak left the Sunni Gulf monarchs in a much stronger position in the Arab League, which they used to legitimize calls for intervention against Libya and sanctions on Syria.

In Egypt, it's our secular dictator, in power for almost 28 years, who disregards our will.

After the toppling of Saddam Hussein, a nominally secular dictator, there was a security vacuum that imperiled Iraq's religious minorities.

How seriously did U.S. policymakers take the precedent of Iraq, where the United States and its allies overthrew another secular dictator with disastrous results?

Some in the West recall the 1979 Iranian revolution, in which the ouster of a secular dictator paved the way for a takeover by religious extremists.

Leaders of the brigade have sometimes described their struggle in Islamic terms, suggesting a divine calling to overthrow a secular dictator.