Sunday, May 27, 2007

Opinion: Turkey: Islam in a secular society

"Turkey: Islam in a secular society

By PHILIP GAILEY
Published May 27, 2007

ISTANBUL, Turkey - Some Americans say they feel like they are living in a Republican theocracy. They don't like the intrusion of religion into politics or the erosion in church-state separation or presidential candidates who prostrate themselves before religious leaders. They should come to Turkey if they really want to live under a secular government that places freedom from religion ahead of freedom of religion."

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