Islamism and Wahhabism have radically different understandings of tawhid and shirk in the modern era. For Sunni and Shii Islamists (e.g., Maududi, Qutb, Khomeini) the modern era is understood as atheistic, secular, and materialistic. Consequently, the primary form of shirk is not people worshipping pagan gods, or trees and rocks, or jinns, or angels, or the dead. Rather it is people following the laws of human beings rather than the laws of Allah (i.e., shirk in legislation and hakimiyya). All Islamists are deeply concerned with eliminating shirk in favor of tawhid by establishing societies and governments which obey the laws of Allah (i.s., the Sharia). Wahhabism (or at least the Wahhabism of the third Saudi state) has a radically different view. Such Wahhabism claims that the primary form of shirk in our era is people worshipping pagan gods, trees and rocks, jinns, angels, and the dead. Hence, Muslims should focus all their attention on giving Muslims lessons on aqida and rituals to ensure that they do not worship a tree or dead person. Meanwhile, from the Wahhabi perspective, shirk in legislation is of much lesser importance, and should ultimately be left to the ruler to address as he wants without Muslims having the right to criticize him if he decides to secularize his country and abandon the Sharia. The US has promoted this type of Wahhabism as a way of destroying Islamist movements, eliminating Sharia, and spreading secularism.