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Indeed, when I asked Akyol whether that public religiosity was why he’d chosen the U.S. That is precisely why some would prefer the U.S. where politicians could quote Quranic scripture and talk about getting more Islamic values into public life. On the contrary, they would be places like the U.S. or the Netherlands, public expressions of religion are frowned upon. These would not be countries where, as in the U.K. approach to faith rather than, say, that of France - they would still have within them ample space for public expressions of faith. model - and Akyol is not alone among Muslim intellectuals in seeking to emulate the U.S. Therefore, if Muslim societies followed the U.S. That is, more than half of American adults say they pray every single day. In Britain, which in many respects is the closest Western country to the U.S., the number is just 6%. In Western Europe - France, Germany, Austria, Denmark - the numbers, according to a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center two years ago, hover around the low teens and below. Take, for example, the percentage of adults who say they pray daily. Even for those who know it intuitively, the data can still be surprising. Most Americans don’t realize how much of an outlier the U.S. It’s also a question that matters directly to Western liberal societies that have communities of faith because the role of faith in public life is constantly shifting. It’s a question that matters directly to Islamic societies around the world because there is no Islamic society in which public displays of faith - the adhan, for example, the Islamic call to prayer - are not prominent and where faith doesn’t play a role in public life, with, for example, politicians invoking God. This is an aspect of the reforming Islam movement that is both intriguing and underexplored, and it can be summed up in a question: What is the proper amount of faith in public life?

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“If there’s one model of secularity that I advocate,” said Akyol, “It’s probably the American model, where freedom of religion is emphasized and communities have full rights to practice their faith.” On the occasion of the publication of his new book, “Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance,” I interviewed the Muslim writer and intellectual Mustafa Akyol and asked him, if his argument is that Islamic societies have become too coercive when it comes to faith, which society should instead be the model for Muslims? His answer: the United States of America. If we disregard the extremes, most people will land somewhere between three and eight, a spectrum that could roughly be translated as ranging from “My parents were Muslim, but I don’t know much about it” to “The president says his Islamic beliefs will guide his new agenda.” What is the proper amount of Islam in American public life? Pick a number from one to 10.