The important Iraqiya List is dominated by Sunnis, but represents itself as a secular movement and is led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, a secular Shia.

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In the late 1940s, when Zionism was a mainly secular movement, David Ben Gurion was willing to accept an international status for the city as part of the price the Jews might have to pay for statehood.

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The chart below shows a positive secular price movement since mid-June, barring some minor pullbacks.

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Their elected president, Mahmoud Abbas of the chiefly secular Fatah movement, has called early presidential and legislative elections.

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Our correspondent says French forces who entered Kidal found members of the secular National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) there.

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The MNLA is a secular, nationalist movement opposed to al Qaeda.

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The chart shows a secular positive price movement since early-June.

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Late last year Ansar Dine, a jihadist group constituted largely of local Tuareg, even joined the peace talks that the government had already started with the secular Tuareg rebels of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA).

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Also, what will be the impact of the long-term cultural movement away from consumerism and toward a Secular Spiritualism that places greater value on a simpler life?

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