There are lots of passages in the Bible that Christians feel...

There are lots of passages in the Bible that Christians feel ashamed of and tend, therefore, to ignore. Christian life, at least in this part of the world, has been losing political importance since the advent of secularism, a movement that has not been well received by the Islamic world for the reasons stated below:

:"Secularism—that is, the separation of religion from civic affairs and the state—has been a controversial concept in Islamic political thought, owing in part to historical factors and in part to the ambiguity of the concept itself.[1] In the Muslim world, the notion has acquired strong negative connotations due to its association with removal of Islamic influences from the legal and political spheres under foreign colonial domination, as well as attempts to restrict public religious expression by some secularist nation states.[2][3] Thus, secularism has often been perceived as a foreign ideology imposed by invaders and perpetuated by post-colonial ruling elites,[4] and is frequently understood to be equivalent to irreligion or anti-religion.[5]"

"A case in point is, of course, Afghanistan where a strict interpretation of the Sharia law applies, a country considered to be the worst place where to be a woman.



Girl being stoned to death for having escaped from forced marriage, a practice not restricted to that country.