Faith has an especially important role to play in politics in circumstances where secular liberals are rendered impotent, as in the case of Nazi occupation, Communist rule, or military dictatorship.

当世俗民主派人士无所作为的情况下，信仰在政治中可以发挥极为重要的作用，正如纳粹占领、共产统治或者军事独裁这些情况。

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Drawing Kazakhstan westward would help embed this secular tradition.

把哈萨克斯坦拖向西方将会巩固这一世俗传统。

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General Buyukanit said in April that the country’s new president must be secular “not just in words, but in essence.”

克阿纳特将军四月份说国家的新总统必须“不仅 仅是在口头上是世俗主义的，而且在本质上也是世俗主义的。”

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