The pro-secular campaigners charged that the probe is an attempt by the government to silence the opposition force.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

They can send their children to secular, county-administered public schools or private academies while providing religious training at home or on weekends.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

The unrest points to the deep divisions between the secular majority in Israel and the ultra-Orthodox minority.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

As the investigation of Saylan's organization continues, the ongoing struggle between those wanting a secular government and the islamic government, took another turn.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

Initial results show Mr.Maliki's State of Law bloc with a slim overall lead over former prime minister Iyad Allawi and his secular Iraqiya faction.

VOA: standard.2010.03.12

But newspaper columnist and political scientist Nuray Mert says the search of Saylan's home has caused great unease among many secular people in the country.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

In 2007 and 2008, the Hawiye Tradition and Unity Council endorsed al-Shabab and other opposition groups fighting a bloody insurgency against Somalia's Ethiopia-backed secular government.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

He stressed its role as a bridge between cultures, and its unique position as a large secular democracy with a 99 percent majority Muslim population.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

a secular,left-leaning party whose members are mostly from the ethnic Chinese and Indian minorities;

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

She has called the lethal mutiny by the border guards a pre-planned conspiracy to try to sabotage her agenda to make Bangladesh a stable secular democracy.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

The 74-year-old human rights activist in many ways personified the Turkish secular state.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

That's their view of Zionism,". Gur says there is a culture war between ultra-Orthodox and secular Israelis, and a fringe group has taken it to the extreme.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

"Turkey will always be secular," tens of thousands of people chanted as they followed the coffin of professor Turkan Saylan who died of breast cancer on Monday.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

It began as an insurrection against Algeria's secular military rulers after they canceled parliament elections in 1992, when it appeared a coalition of Islamist groups might take power.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09