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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The AKP sees the military, judiciary and state bureaucracy as the last bastion of conservative secularism.

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Reaching the capital of Bhopal, I found the state's Chief Minister, Digvijay Singh, felt the secularism of his Congress party needed to be redefined to take account of India's deeply religious ethos.

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France's strict secularism, entrenched by law since 1905, keeps religion firmly out of the state sphere.

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