Heresies Part Two Secularism as an Islamic Islamic Problem

Secularism is often portrayed in mainstream Arabic literature as a Christian-Islamic problem invented exclusively in the Christian West to settle the bitter relations between its two major sects, Catholicism and Protestantism, and thus to put an end to what was called the “War of Religions” in Europe, which raged for more than a hundred years.
This book emphasizes another dimension of secularism as an Islamic-Islamic problem through the astonishing record it presents of the history of the war, both in deeds and words, that has been taking place and continues to take place for more than a thousand years between the two major sects of Islam, Sunnis and Shiites. From this perspective, the author argues that secularism represents an internal necessity for Islam to reconcile with itself, to replace the culture of hatred between its sects with a culture of love, to free itself from the bondage of politicization and ideologization, and to regain, through secularization, its spiritual dimension, which is its only gateway to modernity.