nytimes.com - 12/30/2008
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An election official said that the secular Awami League party had secured an overwhelming majority. >
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Bangladesh Elections: Secular Party Wins
The Moderate Voice —
... “She has been a target of the extremists’ ire already, having been wounded by a grenade at a 2004 rally in an attack linked to Islamist radicals that killed 23 people.” More here… ...
What? No religious test?
Upper Left —
Secular Party Wins Landslide Vote in BangladeshThe U.S. Constitution may have been the first explicit definition of government as a secular matter, and we've been strapping candidates to a cross (or crescent, or Mogen David, but certainly something) every since. Maybe someday we'll catch up with our Bangladeshi brethen.
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