The thinker and researcher in beliefs and philosophy, Saeed Fouda, believes that the spread of the phenomenon of atheism among Arab youth in recent years is not caused by the failure of the Arab Spring revolutions, because these revolutions themselves came as a result of the spread of deviation from religious and cognitive foundations, stressing that many of these young people have begun to doubt themselves. And in their culture when they failed to achieve their goals, some of them even became suspicious of religion as a result of what happened in the Arab revolutions.
The episode (2/22/2023) of the "Mawazine" program shed light on the atheistic wave that has emerged among Arab youth in recent years, and the reasons for the abandonment of some of their Islamic religion.
And while he confirms that many young people were shocked after the failure of the Arab revolutions, because they discovered that the efforts and sacrifices they made were not crowned with success, Fouda explains that the Arab revolutions were not studied and controlled and therefore their results were not in the hands of the Arabs, in addition to that politicians - including the Islamists - refrained from Involve those with experience and knowledge in their decisions related to change.
The thinker and researcher in beliefs and philosophy stresses the seriousness of the phenomenon of atheism among young people, especially in light of the weakness of Arab-Islamic thought, lack of confidence in religion and history, and the absence of intellectual and mental construction for Arab youth whose eyes have been opened - thanks to the Internet, satellite TV and others - to many dangerous cultures, pointing to the distance of the curricula. Arabic study on the mental sciences and the sciences of understanding and its focus on the sciences of transmission and memorization.
He says that the sheikhs and preachers, who are the products of the era in which they were brought up, tended most of them to the emotional, preaching and anecdotal aspects, and lost their minds on the importance of the intellectual and mental construction of these young people.
Ignorance of religion is one of the reasons for the spread of atheism
The researcher in issues of atheism and secularism, Haitham Talaat, attributes one of the reasons for the spread of the phenomenon of atheism to ignorance of religion and the Muslim’s lack of commitment to a daily schedule to reflect on the verses of the Holy Qur’an, and he does not believe that psychological pressures may lead a person to atheism, highlighting that a person will not reach disbelief in God - His Majesty. - And denying the prophets and the Last Day and wasting the Hereafter because of psychological pressure, but rather he uses atheism as a cover for the psychological pressure he suffers from.
Talaat believes that there has been a decline in the atheistic wave recently after it appeared 5 years ago in the Islamic world, attributing this restriction to several reasons, the most prominent of which is that suspicions raised by atheists are answered and refuted on social media, and secondly that all that atheists have been able to do is Just raise suspicions.
And the researcher in issues of atheism and secularism - in his interview with the "Mawazine" program - defines atheism as a denial of the Creator, the unseen, and the prophecies, as atheists work to overthrow the value of the legal text in the heart of the Muslim, adding that atheism begins as heresy, which means a kind of concealment by faith and concealment of disbelief, and heresy leads To atheism, which is of two types - total and partial - there is an atheist group that denies the existence of God and rejects religions, and there is an atheist group that knows the existence of God, but it acts as if God does not exist.