I guess the question about it being a sense depends on how accurate or perceptive it is in what it's meant to accomplish. A good sense of smell will help you avoid eating rotten fruit; same with a good sense of taste. The function of those senses can be objectively measured.
How do you do that with faith? By itself it might give people a vague sense of a god or the supernatural but that's about as far as it goes. You can insert any belief system into it and get the same outcome.
If Christians are right that Islam is a rotten belief system, it isn't useful in helping people to avoid it. In fact for Muslims it just reinforces the belief. So I wouldn't call it a sense.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.