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Originally Posted by Hassan02
Haha the way Germany and the EU are going, who knows maybe leadership of the liberal world will shift to the Fourth Reich  |
Perhaps everything is possible in this world of eternal struggle
. Muslims will eventually set their 'qibla' because competition has changed and 'traditional mode of survival' is no longer working
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Originally Posted by waqas izhar
is there an absolute secular country in the world? a country on which everyone agrees that it is a secular country?
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Let's try to make it easy for you
. Secularism is a political ideology which emphasizes 'separation of church and state' and 'state will not try to establish any religion as it has nothing to do with religion'. But it doesn't mean 'state destroy church'
, churches keep functioning and individuals still hold religious beliefs. These individuals can become state functionaries or even presidents. Bush was one. He personally believed 'God told him to invade Iraq', however this reason was not enough to put United States at war with Iraq so instead the charge of 'weapons of mass destruction and threat to national security' was provided as a justification. There was an environment of fear and concern about Muslim extremism since 9/11 had happened, thus the Congress approved it
. Iraq war was not for religion, even though Bush was personally motivated by his religious belief
. Any country that has a large population of religious believers will have a large number of believers in its government, thus it increases the probability of people making decisions under influence of religious belief
. French population has comparatively less religious followers than the United States so France can be assumed as 'more secularized'.