Secularism in India

Three people were killed in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru after violence erupted between police and protesters over a reported derogatory Facebook post about the Prophet Mohammad, a senior police official said on Aug. 12.

A local middle school principal has been suspended after he allegedly shared a post on his Facebook account humiliating and cursing seculars, while vowing that an Islamic caliphate would return to Turkey by 2024, as part of a probe launched against him in the central Anatolian province of Nevşehir.

A group of main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) deputies walked out of parliament debates on May 20, in protest at Parliament Speaker İsmail Kahraman over his previous remarks on secularism.

There is no need for a specific emphasis on Islam in the new constitution, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has said, noting that it was no issue if people live their faith.

Around 500 people rallied on Saturday in central Zagreb demanding more secularism and calling on the state to reduce funding to the Church at a time of economic hardship in the 85 per cent Catholic country.

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