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Millworker protest snowballed into larger national movement.

by Liz Sly

Much was made of Facebook, Twitter and the role social media played in lending a sense of youth and modernity to the uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak's rule. Then came the ascendancy of political Islam, which seems to be leading Egypt in a different direction entirely.

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Jan 032012
 
Gwynne Dyer

British PM raises furor by calling the UK a Christian country.

by Gwynne Dyer

In the United States, where it is almost impossible to get elected unless you profess a strong religious faith, the comment would have passed completely unnoticed. Not one of the hundred US senators ticks the "No Religion/Atheist/Agnostic" box, for example, although 16 percent of the American population do. But it was quite remarkable in Britain.

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