What seems to have escaped the cross-party purveyors of this so-called militant secularism is that a secular state is not the enemy of religion; in many ways it is its product.

看起来，这种被称为积极好斗的世俗主义，其鼓吹来源超越了党派之争，然而，他们早已忘记了，世俗主义还有一个真正的来源——那就是一个世俗国家并不是信仰的敌人；相反，从很多角度来看，世俗国家正是世俗主义的产物。

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By turning a blind eye towards the excesses of Salafism in a society marked by more than six decades of state-inspired secularism, Ennahda seems to be worryingly blurring the line between political Islam and Islamist violence.

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For the right, the Soviet Union provided the model of all it opposed: public ownership, secularism, state regulation of the economy.

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Signalling a break with the state's history of tolerant secularism, the move has been widely seen as an attempt by the chief minister, Jayalalitha Jayaram, to strengthen her ties with India's ruling Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, which has long advocated a ban on religious conversions.

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