Abstract:
The difference between how people view atheism
varies in the world, in the west, Atheism is seen to be a
normalised topic which is accepted by many people
whereas in the East, heavily criticised. The openness in
western societies with the spread of free secular
materialistic thought occurred after the Enlightenment
period, has pushed people towards the concept of
atheism, especially in the younger generation. On the
other hand, the East has much harsher rules when
dealing with the influx of atheism where some
countries believe death by execution is the solution.
This pushed them to westernised way of thought where
they began to fight Islamic beliefs, and of course under
the support and protection of western regimes that they
used as tools against Islam, many managed to flee their
countries and go to the west as they consider that
religion restricts and prevent them from achieving their
goals, while atheism makes them free from all values
and allows the achievement of freedom, without any
restrictions. From here we see that the spread of
Atheism in the Muslim countries stems from western
atheism. It is thought that the increase of East atheism
is due to cultural, intellectual, educational,
psychological, political, social, and religious reasons
and it is our duty as Muslims to find out why this is
and how to solve it from the concept of Islamic beliefs
the same way Imam Sadiq would by adopting a logical
concept to convince the atheists during their
theological debates and arguments. Due to their lack of
evidence, it was not long before their theories were
being disproved with one example being from the
famous British philosopher Anthony flew was a strong
advocator for atheism wrote a book called “There is a
God” in the later days of his life.