pluralist state

Also in a pluralist state, politics, the military and the economy are all united and work together.

India is, moreover, the only country in southern Asia that has opted in favour of a secular and pluralist state model.

It is argued that Israel itself is a democratic and pluralist state, while the West Bank and Gaza are not part of sovereign Israel and cannot be compared to the internal policies of apartheid South Africa.

Dominique von Burg, the editor in chief of Switzerland's Tribune de Genève, which planned to publish the cartoons on Thursday, told Agence France-Presse: "You can understand the feelings of Muslims, but we're in a pluralist state.