Secularism’s problem is its link to unequal capitalist nation-states, not its European origin.

Evidence

The difficulty with secularism as a doctrine of war and peace in the world is not that it is European (and therefore alien to the non-West) but that it is closely connected with the rise of a system of capitalist nation-states—mutually suspicious and grossly unequal in power and prosperity, each possessing a collective personality that is differently mediated and therefore differently guaranteed and threatened. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 38

Categorization

• XREF: Complicates the vaulted Cooper thread — Asad’s causal account locates secularism’s problem in capitalist state formation, not in covert Christian privilege, offering a counter- or additional-stream explanation.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 38