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February 23, 2011

The Arab World Needs Secularism

Hussein Ibish, NOW Lebanon

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The wave of anti-government protests sweeping through the Arab world, which has already toppled governments in Tunisia and Egypt, raises very serious questions about religion and politics in the Middle East, and reinforces the need for Arab secularism.
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