و واضح است که چرا کلیسا از نوشته‌هایش خشمگین بود، و همین‌طور مسلمانانی که در زمان او بودند، چون او بیانیه‌ای از سکولارسیم به ما می‌دهد از آن نوع که در اروپای امروز رایج است. 
And you can see why the church was upset by his writings, as indeed were some Muslims during his lifetime, because he gives us a strong statement of secularism of a kind which is normal in Europe today. 