Sentence examples for secular heritage from inspiring English sources

Authorities in Indonesia's Aceh province are pressing ahead with a proposed law that would ban female passengers from straddling motorbikes, despite opposition from human rights activists who fear the move undermines the country's secular heritage.

Since 2005, many other regions in Indonesia have issued sharia-inspired bylaws that ban such things as alcohol or tight clothing, alarming rights activists and others who value the country's secular heritage.

Pakistan maintains that Kashmir should have been given the right to choose in a referendum whether to join India or Pakistan, while India maintains that Kashmir is an inalienable part of the nation and proof of its secular heritage.

But Mr Erdogan's critics view the changes as a final assault on Ataturk's secular republic.For the common voter the referendum boils down to a popularity contest between the ruling AK party and the main opposition Republican party (CHP), which sees itself as the custodian of Turkey's secular heritage.

The United States not only is a secular nation, it was founded as one -- and it's our secular heritage that has made our government endure and serve as a model for others all over the world.

Free-thinkers across the country are coming together to support the secular heritage of the holiday, including the Humanists of North Puget Sound, the Greater Worcester Humanists and the Secular Humanist Society of New York.

The law professor, who describes herself as a secular person of Muslim heritage, set out to capture the voices of those battling fundamentalism on the frontlines in countries such as Algeria, Afghanistan, Niger, Russia and Pakistan.

This, Mr. Lewis wrote in 1990 in a celebrated essay in The Atlantic Monthly (which introduced the catch phrase the political scientist Samuel P. Huntington then made famous) "is no less than a clash of civilizations -- the perhaps irrational but surely historic reaction of an ancient rival against our Judeo-Christian heritage, our secular present and the worldwide expansion of both".

The new constitution incorporates the Islamic heritage and secular liberal freedoms.

"We find a good deal of evidence that [people] in Christian heritage societies, although themselves secular — and many of them self-declared atheists — see Muslims as presenting a set of cultural norms that are threatening to them," said David Laitin, a political science professor at Stanford University and one of the authors of the study.

They describe a ceremony that combined elements of ancient heritage, the Church and secular lordship.