Brother you are totally lost ... how can secularisim represents islam ? You are bringing your own version of islam ... we invest billions of rupees yearly on bringing these different political parties on a single form of parliment and to make the concensus on how to run the country ... yet there is a not a single penny of investment to develop acceptability among the sects and yet we blame religion ... reality is you dont want to follow the religious restrictions and therefore came up with this secular agenda ...
Clearly, you are not familiar with the Golden Age of Islam that endorsed secularism for 600 years which hosted more than millions of Christians/Jewish and many more, progressed in all fields including the science which the very source of education outsourced to lift Western world from the age of depression, thus the era of modern Western world based on the secularism platform gifted from Ottoman Empire.
Democracy began the day when Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) died. They held oral elections which then put Abu Bakr (R.A) to the power. Democracy is quite old concept than you can imagine.
Islam is all about equality. Secularism and Islam are similar because both focus on the equality which bears the fruit of multiculturalism, diversity, unity.
Do you really think ksa and iran are fighting for religion? Are you really that naive ? Its about arab and persian dominance over a large population and sect is really a tool for them .. so you are telling me as per wahabisim, friendship with usa is fine but shiaism is a hell ... on the other hand as per shia teachings russia is perfect but wahabisim is hell ? Man are you living in a parallel world or are you a just a common person falling into the trap of this sectarian divide to serve the purpose of some individuals ?
KSA and Iran have been fighting for many years for the sectarian of Religion. The keyword is sectarian.
Clearly, you are not familiar with the ground reality of Middle East. Even Umar Ibn Al-Khattab (R.A) prayed for the wall between Iran and KSA so it wouldn't come to the sectarian wars based on 1300 years ago. Alas, it was not meant to be.
Petro dollar is not same as sectarian. Sectarian is totally different story, but i don't have time to explain the concept of sectarian that goes back to 17th century for Wahabbism as far as i am concerned, and for Shia, goes back to 6-7th century. It was the seed that materialized which later became internal wars between Muslim empire to Muslim empire; Ottoman Empire vs Persian Empire [Safavid and many more], Mughal Empire was Persian Empire [Safavid and Afsharid], and KSA vs Iran.
Foreign policy whether on Petro dollar, geographically strategic, trading port is totally different story which takes to the whole new levels which i have no time to explain here. Suffice to say, the sectarian war is not stranger to the Muslim worlds for
centurions.
For example in Pakistan most of the top leaders of TTP caught do not have even basic knowledge of islam, they are not practicing muslims, still they are fighting a religious war ... isnt it obvious that all these bull shit drama is to present islam as a religion of chaos and to introduce secularisim ... and people like you are serving the pupose well ...
TTP is terrorist-outfit, but they use religion as factor to further their political ideology which is based along with the lines of Wahabbism/Salafism. Never mind the fact that TTP is Indian-funded Afghan-based Terrorist-outfit but the reasons TTP flourished in Pakistan because of support from the majority of conservative with the mindset of extremism similar to Wahabbism/Salafism and the ethnic factor [Pukhtoons].
Religion is involved inherently and because of sectarian, Religion gets further involved as people further their political ideology in the name of the Religion that appears to work strangely in Pakistan.
Ottoman Empire was smart to introduce Sultanate System to separate Religion from the state, and only then, they flourished, and ruled fore centurions. Similarity in the Western world following the separation of Religion from the State, they too have flourished. Only in the state where the Religion is separated from the state can rule efficiently and endorse multiculturalism in many ways.
Otherwise in the Religion mandated system, too many issues such as sectarians, political ideologies, difference among the school thought of Ulema, politicize the minority and foreign faiths through the force [Blasphemy laws] and barbarism laws as punishment fueled by political ideology.
You will not give the examples of religious people like moulana tariq jameel, dr. Israr ahmed, zakir naik and ahmed dedad but of TTP and wahabis as your agenda is not to bring peace harmony but to remove islam ... i can bet the efforts and money spend on implementing democracy, if even half if this could be spent on bringing harmony between sects and to develop a system of acceptability between sects then we can be in much better shape as implementing islam also means establishing a true welfare society ...
Try removing almost closer to 2 billion Muslim community then. Muslim world is busy killing each other in the name of Religion to further their political ideology based on the sectarian.
And you haven't answered as to which version of Islam is right to impose against the community that is divided over the sectarian of Islam? And if democracy was the tool to remove Islam, that could have easily been achieved long time ago. But that is not the case here. Western world follow Islam unknowingly than Muslim world does.
You will find Islam in spirit in Western world than you do in Muslim world which mostly are for namesake unfortunately.
* Western world treats the children equally, prioritize girl over son whereas it is opposed in the Muslim world, not to mention, girls are deprived from the inheritance.
* Respect for women in the Western world in regards to equal opportunity as men enjoy. No honor killing as opposed to the Muslim worlds where the women are demeaned, characterized, denied of equal opportunity, and used for slavery [kitchen].
* Western world has room for the multiculturalism and open to all kind of faiths where people from all kind of faiths are open to practice their faith. Minority in Muslim world gets killed in the name of Religion or Sectarian of Religion either way following the examples of Ahmedhiya, Shia [Sunni-Shia], KSA/Iran aka Wahabbism/Shiasm, inequality [men and women], and liberalism is considered as crime.
* Western world is flexible to other genders as well as sexual orientations. But Muslim worlds plague them to death unquestionable.
And there are more but you get the gist.