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Tel Aviv and Jerusalem represent two centers of gravity in Israel: Tel Aviv is democratic, secular, progressive, and Western, while Jerusalem is religious, conservative, and theocratic.
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Tel Aviv and Jerusalem represent two centers of gravity in Israel: Tel Aviv is democratic, secular, progressive, and Western, while Jerusalem is religious, conservative, and theocratic.
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Jiang says Jews in this argument defend liberalism, secularism, and individualism because those philosophies protect them from religious overreach.
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He argues that modern French conflict with Islamists follows from this republican nationalism because public religious customs such as hijab conflict with the French nation-state's assimilationist public sphere.
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Jiang says secular students may struggle to understand religious thinking, but most people on earth are religious and take religion very seriously.
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"The different political parties of Israel. And again, I hate to say this, but they really hate each other. It's not a show. They..."
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"Lots of homosexuals. Lots of open ideas. Very secular. Very outward looking. Very Western. Jerusalem is the complete opposite. Okay? Very religious. Very conservative...."
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"...We will stand up for liberalism. We will stand up for secularism. We will stand up for individualism, because these three philosophies are what..."
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"It's one of the fundamental ideas of the French Republic. And that's why in today, there's so much antagonism between Islamists and the government...."
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"Right. Okay? Okay. So that doesn't make sense, okay? All right? So this is the... So it's hard because this is religion, okay? And..."
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"...it's going to fade away because it's too much focused on secularism, individualism, liberalism. And these ideas break apart community. These ideas are anti..."
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"The Young Turks believed in three things. They believed in secularism, no religion. They believed in liberalism. And they believed in individualism. Just basically..."
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