Crisis Of Modernity And Secularism In Muslim Nations

(Lailufar Yasmin’s OP-ED article from the OpenDemocracy.com on 17 August 2013.)





Turkish anti-Islamist uprsing (2013).


Whenever democratic space has opened
up, people have been eager to choose those who not only provide a better
solution for their economic and social problems, but who can also offer them a
recognition of the authenticity of their cultures.





The idea that the West has