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But it's not just in impossibly arcane Supreme Court decisions that 'secular' plays us false, says Hasson [of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty]. It gets us in needless trouble internationally as well. The Arabic word for secular is 'almehni', meaning godless. So when Muslim fundamentalists hear us talk about secular government, they think we mean, quite literally, a godless government.
(from W.Raspberry's column, Washington Post)

Проблема, очевидно, не в трудностях перевода, а в недостаточной религиозности американского правительства. А то б мы уже давно слились с исламскими фундаменталистами в братских объятиях.