It was completely abandoned in Turkey as part of the country's latter-day secularisation.
BBC: The many faces of Sharia
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There has been considerable comment about the secularisation of the millennium.
BBC: An eye on simplicity
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The latest debate on faith in Britain was ignited after Conservative co-chairwoman Baroness Warsi warned that the nation was under threat from a rising tide of "militant secularisation".