The secularization movement seems to be growing rapidly within JAM and the Mahdi Army community.
Ravi Zacharias cites three worrisome trends: Secularization resulting in the loss of stigma around anti-social behavior.
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The story of Islam in America today is a story of rapid assimilation and even secularization, not growing radicalism.
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Mosque attendance is not the only measure of religious observance, but Muslims are experiencing other signs of secularization as well.
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Kaufman argues that the world's religious population is increasing after a century of gradual decline as younger generations in the developing world reject secularization.
Nowadays, the procession, supported by the civil and religious authorities is increasingly popular despite secularization, with an average each year of 13, 000 participants coming from Luxembourg and the neighbouring regions.
Far from preparing for the twenty-first century, much of the Arab and Muslim world appears to have difficulty in coming to terms with the nineteenth century, with its composite legacy of secularization, democracy, laissez faire economics, transnational industrial and commercial linkages, social change, and intellectual questioning.
The Muslim Brotherhood is an international movement founded in 1928 that seeks the destruction of all state and geographic divisions, rejects the idea of the nation-state and all forms of secularization, and works toward creating a world pan-Islamic state with a government based on Muslim sharia law.
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Most explicit are those who have called him God's punishment of European Jews for their secularization, then gone on to argue that it was mainly because of Hitler and the Holocaust that the biblical prophecy was fulfilled and the state of Israel born--only Western guilt on so massive a scale could have cleared the way to the Promised Land.
Just as the theological essays avoid predictable lamentations over the West's abandonment of God (at one point Kolakowski almost welcomed secularization on the ground that it might free the church to be what it is rather than what it thinks the world wants it to be), so in the book's final section, a diverse collection of 11 essays, Kolakowski's writing constantly upends expectations.
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