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They are either westernized secular Iranians who were allied with the Shah and fled to the West during the 1978 Iranian revolution or they are the young Westernized residents of Tehran ".

The Regional Fallout of Iranian Turmoil 2009

Identified by captured al-Qaeda planner Khalid Sheik Mohammed as a key operative, Shukrijumah has been described as Westernized, able to speak English with no discernible accent and able to pass as Latino, Indian or Middle Eastern.

Al-Qaeda operative is charged in N.Y. subway plot 2010

Women and children are still second class citizens, even in the so-called Westernized "liberal democracies."

We've become our own predators". 2009

The media presentation of other communities demonstrates to viewers an acceptance of diverse lifestyles and ideas, often highly Westernized, that is communicated in the sphere of popular media run by Hizbullah members.

MRZine.org 2010

This, and a wide range of other studies in migrant populations, are supportive of avoidable, dietary, and possibly other "Westernized" lifestyle, causes of breast cancer, particularly hormonal meat.

Samuel S. Epstein: Hormones in U.S. Beef 2009

But because of our limited ability to communicate, I never really felt I knew how she felt about her "Ang moh" (a Teochew phrase that implies "Westernized") granddaughter.

Powerfully Good Cookie 2009

The fascinating thing about this tale, it seems to me, is that some of those in the forefront of the movement are precisely those one would have thought were most "Westernized": members of the newly affluent Asian middle class.

The Lesson Of The Streets 2008

In the frantic, hyper-competitive, success-obsessed, capitalist-Communist amalgam that is New China, even the trendiest, ear-ring sporting, "Westernized" youth is under tremendous pressure.

Tom Doctoroff: Chinese Youth and Their Internet: Deep Love 2008

The very few "Westernized" Muslims who are willing to speak in public are, rightfully according to "pure" Islam, candidates for extermination.

"A potent debating strategy: he compares the status quo to the age of al jahiliya, the Arabic term for the barbaric state of pre-Islamic Arabia." Ann Althouse 2007

I can see how one might be able to make the claim that today's Russia is "Westernized," but when the Soviet invasion began, in 1979, I doubt that anyone in the world (Afghan resistance and foreign Arab fighters included) viewed the Soviet empire as a "Western" power.

Letters to the Editor 2004