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Islam and Secularism in the Middle East Kathleen Stein Hawaii VolcanoesWestern civilization tends to view secularism as a positive achievement. From this perspective, benefits of secularizing trends include the separation of church and state, the rule of law, and freedom from organized religion. In the Middle East, however, Islamic intellectuals increasingly cite Western inspired secularism as the source of the region's social dislocation and political instability. While secularism in the West led to the spread of