Secular Education System News Today

The God Delusion is big in Saudi Arabia. Three million copies of Richard Dawkins’s bible of atheism were downloaded in the kingdom—one of twelve Muslim-majority states where the statute books prescribe the death penalty for apostasy. It is difficult to gain an accurate estimate of the number of ...

Hannah Wallace is the author of From Darwin to Jihad: The Erosion of Turkey's Secular Education System and is a politics graduate, a proficient German speaker, a researcher on terrorism and insurgency, and a writer for various foreign policy publications.

Turkey’s secular education system is under threat. According to a 2018 Washington Post article, an education official called for all school children to be taken to local mosques for morning prayers before lessons. While it may be a seemingly incongruous demand in a country known for its secular ...