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Re:The NYC's MTA 20 Year Needs Assessment Reminds Us They Ca... by selimthegrim on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @09:08AM (#37831584)
My family is Ahmedi, (not a community historically disposed to the moral superiority of Europeans or Christians and not an upper class family either) so secularism was and is a way of making sure the masses don’t turn us into mincemeat (in Bangladesh too)

What I’m trying to drive at is that this ignores indigenous leftist as well as minority (historically Ahmedis were never leftist with exception of 1970) movements.

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Re:The NYC's MTA 20 Year Needs Assessment Reminds Us They Ca... by rayiner on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @08:30AM (#37843599)
It does, insofar as religious minorities have very little influence on Bangladeshi political dynamics. The overriding force for secularism in the country is the notion that Islam is for poor and backward people. Similarly in the US, religion is what actually poorer racial minorities have in common with the dominant group. Secularism actually arose in the US in response to poor Catholic immigrants.
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Re:The NYC's MTA 20 Year Needs Assessment Reminds Us They Ca... by selimthegrim on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @06:26PM (#37851131)
How can this be true with Washington’s letter to the Jews, Jefferson’s Bible and letter to the Danbury Baptists, the Ohio constitution, etc

https://fedsoc.org/federalist-society-review-new/the-ohio-co...

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