Yet even if such forebodings prove justified, the secularists are themselves partly to blame.
The Euro-secularists are usually blind to the other big influence of religion on American foreign policy.
But as the new generation began to attend universities it clashed with the secularists.
He explained how Tunisia's government was the result of "moderate Islamists and moderate secularists" coming together.
It is mostly rich and overeducated secularists who are playing Chicken Little these days.
They understood only this: Erdogan equals the popular will, secularists equal the old Westernized elite.
And there are hypocrites in every walk of life, both believers and non-believers, Christians and secularists alike.
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Tension has been growing between hardline Islamists and secularists since the overthrow of President Ben Ali's autocratic rule.
Preaching Christ crucified will increasingly come across as a stumbling block to lukewarm Christians and folly to secularists.
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Mr Abdel Jalil commands respect both from Islamists, towards whom he is sometimes said to tilt, and the secularists.
If she does, the secularists hope that some members of her party will move over to the government's side.
Last week the government quickly passed legislation curbing the sale and advertising of alcoholic drinks, which analysts say alarmed secularists.
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Analysts say Tunisia is deeply divided between supporters of the Islamist-led government and secularists, while youth unemployment remains stubbornly high.
Secularists and many Sunnis feared that the Shia religious establishment would set itself up as the arbiter of what was sharia.
Tensions persist between regions, between Islamists and secularists, and between those demanding a purge of former officials and those counselling pragmatic accommodation.
He is the choice of liberals, secularists and Egypt's large Christian minority.
That not all Muslims desire sharia law is unfathomable to radical secularists.
Secularists had insisted that to do otherwise in either Ms Ladele's or Mr McFarlane's case would be demeaning to gay people, and "retrogressive".
The polarized views of the verdict mark the latest furor pitting conservatives against secularists in a debate over the standard for Turkish public life.
Mohamed ElBaradei, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency and a leading voice in the liberal opposition, encapsulated the confusion among secularists.
But, as far as the secularists are concerned, any candidate that the AK Party proposes, they see that as a threat to the secular republic.
Andrew Mango, a biographer of Ataturk, thinks secularists' worries are overblown.
And inevitably the partnership between secularists and Muslims faces hard moments.
In that 2006 speech he asked secularists not to dismiss religion as inherently irrational, and believers not to think that they alone should define the nation's morality.
At the same time, by consistently refusing to permit Turkey to join the EU, despite Ankara's moves to placate its political correctness, Brussels discredited still further Turkey's secularists.
Specifically, the willingness of Muslim secularists to form strategic relations with jihadists and the willingness of Shi'ites to form strategic partnerships with Sunnis was unimaginable 20 years ago.
For many Euro-secularists, America's religiosity is its least attractive characteristic.
Thumma said Southern Baptists are drawing immigrants and new residents, but there's little proof they've reaching area lifers, including the large Roman Catholic population and increasing numbers of secularists.
When Lord May, the former chief scientist of Britain, said in September that religion might be needed to secure humanity's future, he was denounced by fellow secularists as a traitor.
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