In “A Secular Age,” Charles Taylor explores the connection between Protestantism and secularism. His argument is that the transformations the Protestant movement presented to society inadvertently opened the way for modern secularity. The initial impetus of the Protestant movement was based in its rejection of monasticism.

MUZAFFARABAD: The proscribed Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) announced on Thursday (9 July 2026) that it would resume its long march on Muzaffarabad on July 15, if its demands remained unmet. Addressing participants at the Eidgah sit-in, JAAC core member Umar Nazir Kashmiri said the alliance would stage a long march on Muzaffarabad on July 15 if its charter of demands was not implemented by July 14...

What draws the attention of careful observers and analysts when examining the major crises across the Muslim lands is that the enemy of the Muslims in all of them is one: America. In some of these crises, it is joined by its protégé, the usurping Jewish entity. Among the earliest of these cases is Iraq, which America fought in the early 1990s before occupying it in 2003, and which continues to suffer under its domination.

For over a year, calls have been circulating within the Israeli establishment for leaders, thinkers, and analysts to prepare for a confrontation with Egypt and Turkey, whom they describe as the impending threat. For over two years, calls for a "Greater Israel" and a state encompassing Mesopotamia have been escalating and gaining traction in political circles.