Secularism decenters religion entirely. In the West, secularism functions like a civil state religion over all religions. You can't say secularism will be the state's main ideology, but claim that Islam will be special. Islam will be relegated as illegitimate to the state, irrespective of how often the state leaders appeal to a religious base. Whenever people want to see those values have administrative footing, the secular system will see Islam as a threat, even redefine what Islam is by imposing itself on how the general public consumes Islamic content and engages with one another.
You see, a secular state ideology propagates and fashions its citizens to be secular. Exactly what took place in the West will happen anywhere that adopts its ways. The spread of irreligiosity is imminent in it. You will see that for secular individuals, the first thing they do is not promote secularism, it's to talk about what form of Islam is legitimate that exists as the least resistance to a secular order.
So ultimately, secularism does not only seek to supplant Islam's legitimacy in public life but also presents itself as the more legitimate framework of reason and rationality (mode of living); it also changes religion, alters its meaning and perception by the people over time. It does not divorce religion from administrative roles only. That is a myth. We're talking deeper displacements and distortions to religiousity entirely, not simply governance systems.
That is why you often find that the promoters of Christianity in the West intertwine with the state's secular system promotion as if they're one and the same. Christianity has, in large part, become a cultural accessory to the secular state, and what it means to be Christian is practically the broad liberal ideology plus the cultural accessory.
After a while, after having secularizing state policies, Islam as perceived by the people will turn into a legitimizing arm of the secular state. We saw this happen already in Siyaad Barre's regime, by the way. He promoted some sheikhs and violently persecuted others. The sheikhs he promoted sanctioned and promoted his state's ideologies.
It happened in Albania and in Kazakhstan. In those places, we see how Western ideologies were used to displace the normative Islamic relations. These are also examples of how the secular bodies uprooted the Islamic sense of community, relations, roles, authority, balance, etc. The state re-wrote the social and religious fabric in those countries, and so were the value systems, all fashioned from the state's own image, to even the very core of redefining religious authenticity.
Today, if you go to Albania, the tour guide will try to explicitly say that Albanians are mostly culturally Muslim and nearly no one goes to the mosque to try to highlight that Islam is decoupled in a real sense. But he will not say the same thing about the Christian minority, since in the secular-nationalist image, that has been reprogrammed as the true Albanian identity origins, these being the new historical revisionism for Europeanist ideologues who were the ones to push secularism to be accepted by Europe. While Kazakhstan banned the hijab, saying that it was not its culture. In truth, this is a secular lie, whereas what he pushes for is the distortion itself.
