This is a comment that is yet another example of a commentator who knows nothing of the history of secularism in the islamic world and makes comments completely without worth.
I do not care if there is an inevitably about secular systems or not, as I think the statement makes no sense without definition, but it shows gross ignorance of what the secular history of the Islamic world is since the colonial period and makes grossly incorrect assumptions about what kind of systems the majority of muslims have actually experienced- which as rule are secular and not religious in basis.
In the Bangladesh like most of the islamic world the actual systems in place since the end of the colonial rule, itself usually ‘secular’ in a sense, are secular and that the “secular rule” experienced is at a base part of the problem. Too often the secular rule experienced is one that is characterised by gross corruptoin, by dictatorship (backed by the outsiders, whether the Soviets or the Westerners - especially Americans).
Comments like this are completely divorced from any political reality of the history and make the gross assumptoins that somehow the Muslims in majority have lived in systems like the saudi system.
Much of the islamist reaction is driven by disgust with the gross failures of the secular systems experienced, in the areas of political governance, of economic governance and the general devleopment - and as reaction to particularly large Western support to the “secular” dictators who play to the blind and ignorant prejudices like those of this OP.
I do not personally support the islamist reaction, they are wrong, but the simple minded ignorant idea that somehow muslims are blindly culturally revolting against secularism is so completely wrong as to make on laugh in hysteria at the ignorance.
No, it is evidence of the failure of the dictatorship based secularism supported in the past by both the Soviets and the West. to avoid the confusion and the doubt I do not say created by, but indeed supported by blindly often.
Complete ignorance stupidity that knows nothing of the history of the islamic world in the past 70 years.
this is complete nonsense and shows you are only fishing for examples to support a prejudice.
Since I doubt you speak any language but your English and certainly I doubt you know any of the major non western colonial languages of the islamic world, I do not see what position someone like you has to make statements like ‘one of the preciious few.’
The emphasis added. It is nice to see the real prejudice come through, and why people like myself who are secular have no trust in these kinds of calls, and why I despise them. I see where they come from and they are not supporting secular people, they are exploiting as a legitimisation of hatreds and bigotries.
