Islamism and secularism following the changes in Arabic countries

After the changes in Arabic countries in 2011, conflict between Islamist and secular demands over how the government is understandable? In this regard there are two major approaches: (1) in principle, in the "essence of Islam", dual religion and state, secular and religious, makes no sense and this "meaningless categories" entered by imitating Arab elites from the concept of secularism of West. (2) Secularization is rooted in the "global developments of modernism" and is inevitable in the grassroots level of Arabic countries. In this paper, after the investigating the concept of secularism in Western and Arabic countries, up those two views about Islamism and secularism have been investigated, by using meta-analysis. Then, using public polls from Arabic countries associated with good governance (religious or secular), is offered practical criterion for judgment in connection with this dual. Under these criteria, is presented a new definition of Islamism. In this view, the success or failure of any of the Islamist or secular governments in governance is considered as a benchmark to analyze the dual.