BBC's recent article that Arabs are quickly turning non-religious
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-48703377
But it has a few catches :
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The main graph is a bit misleading. One might think 70-80% are non-religious until you check the scale and see it runs only upto 40%. i.e. it's zoomed-in to the lower part. Real change : what previously was 8% is now 13%. A 5% increase in 5 years. Which isn't that bad considering my initial guess after reading the title was : 70-80% should have been driven to atheism by now.
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Second issue, the term "non-religious" carries different meaning in West vs in Arab. In arab any muslim that doesn't pray 5 times a day but wishes to do so and believes in God, will identify him as non-religious. While in west it means someone is atheist or agnostic.
Highlighted by someone in this tweet
https://twitter.com/shadihamid/status/1144703715682791424
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Saudi, UAE and large part of Arab land is off this chart. And it mainly focuses on North Africa.
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But even if small, the trend is real. Though not more than what we are experiencing here in BD.