What is Secularism?

Secularism - 1.Religious skepticism or indifference.
2. The view that religious considerations should be excluded from civil affairs or public education.

The religious fanatics change the defination to create hate and fear for their ulterior motives. Secularism has nothing to do with atheism or agnostics. Secularism threatens the religious fanatics` corrupt agenda.

Gill Sahib,

The problem is that the mullahs in Pakistan and other Islamic countries have successfully maligned secularism as being anti-religion or even anti-Islam. This deliberate distortion has now seeped into the national consciousness of the ordinary people in these countries. So much so that any move towards secularism is looked as an attack on Islam or Islamic values. Even highly educated and tolerant people are against secularism simply because they view it as something unislamic.

I think a more pragmatic approach would be to drop the term secularism and instead concentrate on 100% religious tolerance and no discrimination even if the system is called Islamic. In other words, change the nature of the Islamic system rather than changing the term.