Michael L.
There are three major religions that come from the Middle East.
Judaism. Christianity. Islam.
Each of these religions is, to some extent, either political or non-political.
Each of these religions is, to some extent, either universal or non-universal.
Judaism, the tiny one of the three, is neither political, nor universal. What this means is that Judaism seeks neither to impose Judaism upon anyone else, nor does it insist that everyone else must become Jewish in order to be favorable in the eyes of the deity.
Christianity, today, is not political. European Christians, and the great majority of American Christians, including Evangelical Christians, do not wish to see any country be a theocratic state.
It is only within Islam that we see the rise of the most blood-thirsty religious revival in recent world history.