The members of her network, however, were pledged to personal freedom and secular democracy.
Will Iraq become a secular democracy or a new theocracy?
It documents how the issue of sexual regulation is being used to undermine secular democracy.
No one with any experience of Afghanistan would predict it will immediately flower into a secular democracy.
There is no mass support in the Arab world for the secular liberal democracies of their dreams.
Additionally, the idea that "God's law" should affect policy in a secular democracy is itself controversial.
Turkey is one of only two countries with a majority Muslim population to have a secular democracy.
The common ground of the participants was the belief that Islam and secular democracy should be compatible.
South Africa is a secular democracy with freedom of religion.
Although it began as a secular democracy, a tide of religious militancy has been growing.