It seems, at least to me, that countries of the, so-called, "Islamic" world are undergoing great and rapid change towards modern secularized social contracts.
I think it's quite fascinating to watch. This post was me thinking about this process as it's happening.
It only seems that way to people from other cultures, because now in the last couple of years you people are paying attention to it. So, now it's in the news. That's all. Good things and bad things happened in the "Islamic" world with the same rate as it's been in the last decade. Because of the war, as general aspect, people got to own their religion and nation more tightly. But I don't know how you see that of course, because according to my personal experiences most of the other world cultures perceives the Islamic world and its people as one type. Now this post would look as it's conflicted with my first one in this thread, but it's not. People are people everywhere around the world and their problems are the same. So, in my opinion, everything is the same as before, we only hear more about individual events as now we are more 'globalised', that's all. What's so bad is, that's just a delusion. The same thing goes for Christian and Jewish societies.
It depends on:
-the cultural and religious back ground of the country
-the control of the state and governments,
-How much laicest the law systems is,
-the most important one as it effects the socio-cultural life; how much secularized the people 'can get', in an environment in reaction to all above.
Well, it's important what do you understand from 'secular', of course. If it's the colour white poured in black, everywhere around the world is shade of black and grey.
A country could be laicised by law but not secular by culture. Or completely secular by culture, not laicest in the law by the least.
