Musharraf's declaration of emergency rule also has strained relations with Bhutto, who shares his secularist, pro-Western views.
The secularist establishment, which includes the army, courts and universities, is opposed to any reform of the ban.
Lapid was well-known for his confrontational style on television and radio, as well as for his secularist views.
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Fadi Hakura believes that until now secularist Turkey has been intent on creating a new politics for Islam.
Mr Obama's 25-minute speech to the Turkish parliament offered something for everyone, whether secularist, Islamist, nationalist or Kurdish.
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Congress for the Republic (CPR) - the country's biggest secularist party - was the runner-up with nearly 14%, winning 30 seats.
Yet even the fiercest secularist cannot deny that Mr Erdogan's government has been a smashing success compared with what went before.
The shift puts new pressure on the Pakistan Peoples Party, which led the outgoing government in a coalition of three secularist parties.
But Sekura said Ecevit showed himself willing to compromise his secularist values.
Ecevit, a short, slight man whose big spectacles, fierce mustache and ever-present blue cap made him instantly recognizable, was always a strong secularist.
UCL's Atheist, Secularist and Humanist society said its president Robbie Yellon was stepping down to be replaced by former vice president Michael Thor.
Liberals see him as a brave and energetic reformer, religious conservatives as a brash secularist who has grown too big for his boots.
But the generals and the no less secularist judiciary remain unswayed.
Significant, in this light, is the recent award by Egypt's culture ministry of a prize to one of the country's most combative secularist writers, Sayed al-Qimani.
Yair Lapid, a longtime prominent journalist whose late father, Tommy Lapid, led Shinui, a onetime secularist party that took on the influence and power of the ultra-Orthodox.
Sunday's vote is the latest confrontation in a power struggle between Erdogan's Islamist-rooted party and Turkey's secularist establishment, which have repeatedly clashed since AKP swept to power eight years ago.
Jawaharlal Nehru, India's political leader to independence from British rule in 1947, and its first prime minister, was born into a high-caste Hindu family and became a resolute secularist.
New Year's Day has no very religious origin, and so can be celebrated by the most zealous secularist - but perhaps not with new year resolutions, which are a Puritan tradition of spiritual improvement.
Research carried out in the same month by a secularist foundation suggested three-quarters of people who describe themselves as Christian in Britain displayed only a low level of belief and practice of the religion.
Yesh Atid's leader is a dynamic figure -- Yair Lapid, a longtime prominent journalist whose late father, Tommy Lapid, led Shinui, a onetime secularist party that took on the influence and power of the ultra-Orthodox.
In fact, with so much open doors and channels and discussion and talks between Western countries, especially the US administration and the Islamists has been very, very modest effort to engage with the liberal secularist movements there.
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In a more immediate, though more oblique, threat to Mr Barak's political well-being, the attorney-general recently ordered the police to investigate Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual leader of the traditionalist Shas party, for publicly cursing Yossi Sarid, the education minister and leader of the secularist Meretz party.
In Tunisia, the revolution, which since the ouster of Ben Ali had been progressing well, despite opposition from several Islamist groups, suffered significant regression following the brutal and cowardly assassination of Chokri Belaid, a secularist and staunch critic of the ruling Islamist-led government of Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali.
The world must be able to choose to encourage - for the sake of Egypt, for the sake of the world, for the sake of the security of the area, to encourage the liberal, secularist forces in Egypt, which do include the Copts, the Copts are part of that.
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