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knowledge is an important The Reasons for the
factor in causing lack of belief. Spread of Atheism in the
Furthermore, Agnostic atheist East and West
is arguably a label which Before we mention the reasons
applies to most atheists in the for both, it is necessary to refer
West today. to what Abd al-Rahman
Where atheists and Badawi mentioned in his book
agnostics are pushed to expand “from the history of atheism in
and diversify their ranks as Islam”, he said:
secularism grows. This explain to us the
We must also take into secret that atheists in
consideration of atheism that the Arab spirit all
exists in our Arab and Islamic
countries stemming from the rejected the idea of
west which is caused by the prophecy and prophets,
intellectual ideology that entered and left divinity, while
our Islamic countries by atheism in other
western colonization furthermore civilizations were about
the cultural invasion succeeded the denial of Gods
in attracting a good number of existence. (Badawi,
Muslim youth and affected
their thoughts due to their lack 1993: 5)
of base knowledge and He states the origins of
understanding causing them to
imitate the western way of atheism which is an extension
thinking and they follow their of the new atheism that has
ideals. become a global complex
This can be the case with phenomenon containing several
most types of atheism where reasons which are not
they always originate in the necessarily religious.
west and spread around the
world.