Secularism is subject to many interpretations

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BERSATU Youth chief Wan Ahmad Fayhsal Wan Ahmad Kamal thinks that just because secularism is incompatible with religious administration, there is a need to reject secularism especially among the Muslims.

This is based on the mistaken notion that there is only one view in the Islamic world about the need to reject secularism. However, even with Islam (and also other religions), secularism is subject to many different interpretations. 

Religious scholars often interpret religious texts to explain or to make sense of the modern world.

Even within the Islamic world, there is a number of interpretations as to the relevance of secularism in the Islamic world. In this respect, secularism has been redefined away from the experience of the Western world.

Some outwardly reject secularism as something incompatible with Islam whereas others think that Islam needs not reject secularism.

The needs of secularism can be reconciled with religious texts.

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