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               18  International Multi. J. of PURE LIFE. 8 (26): 13-30, Spring 2021

               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.
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