The Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud was among those who, threatened by her liberal secularist principles and her promises to crack down on the militant Islamists, spoke of sending suicide bombers, but Bhutto believed that her most dangerous and capable enemies were in the government.
At these rallies, openly flouting the secularist principles of the Republic of Turkey, Erdoğan has not hesitated to use religion to drum up support.
It is significant, however, that, even where secularist principles are consciously professed, the dead are rarely disposed of without some semblance of ceremony.
Camus's problem was not, as it might be for many French citizens, that the religious symbolism of the veil clashed with some of the country's most cherished secularist principles; it was that the veil wearers were permanent interlopers in Camus's homeland.
This is what happens when French politicians exploit the country's celebrated laïcité (secularist principle) for political gain by playing to the lowest common denominator.
Soccer acquired new political uses in the aftermath of the 1980 coup d'état: a milestone in postwar Turkish history, when a junta dissolved the government, purged and imprisoned all "extremists," and instituted three years of military rule under nationalist-secularist principles.
Appeals to secularist voters outraged over the constant demands for bribes from all levels of officials.
His son is taunted for his father's "fall" from cleric to secularist.
In Tunisia voters have turned back to secularists.
And second, it holds weekly discussion meetings about issues important to secularists as well as bigger, less frequent events.
