Sentence examples for secular pluralism from inspiring English sources

The recent bombings in Madrid are linked not only to the goals of undermining and unnerving states where secular pluralism reigns but also, by way of a kind of magical realism, to ancient resentments and fantasies, to bin Laden's desire, expressed in videotaped speeches and declarations, that his followers reverse what Al Qaeda's ideologist Ayman al-Zawahiri once called "the tragedy of Al-Andalus".

Yet the engine of this novel is not the usual comic exaggeration; it is sadness for the ideal that has been lost in Kashmir and in so many other parts of the Muslim world, the ideal of tolerance and secular pluralism.

He is a nationally recognized leader promoting religious and secular pluralism, human rights, social justice.

If one wishes to forgo the protection afforded by secular pluralism then perhaps Western liberal democracies is not the right place for you to freely exercise your religion.

Across the 1960s a series of Supreme Court decisions reinforced the wall of separation between church and state and the Democratic Party grew to be the defender of secular pluralism.

They reject pluralism, secular democracy and, to some degree, modernity.

The substance camp believes that people like the Brothers "reject pluralism, secular democracy and, to some degree, modernity": The important thing is to get people like that out of power, even if it takes a coup.

They reject pluralism, secular democracy and, to some degree, modernity...

He treasures secular governance, reasoned argument, pluralism, tolerance (except of the humorless or the boring) and freedom, and loathes the wicked isms of oppression — communism, imperialism, racism and above all totalitarianism.

We patronize Islam, and mislead ourselves, by repeating the mantra that Islam is a faith with no serious problems accepting the secular West, modernity and pluralism, and the only problem is a few bin Ladens.

A higher public profile for atheists, efforts to reconcile Islam with secular societies and religious pluralism, protests led by religious groups against government authorities in Zimbabwe and Myanmar Burmaand and growing moves toward schism in the worldwide Anglican Communion were among the significant developments on the religious scene in 2007.