American Thinker: Modernity and Western Values In the Clutches of Islamization

Muslim reformers of the past century - such as Mohammed Abdu, Refaa Al-Tahtawi, Taha Hussein, Ali Abdel-Razik and others - sought and unfortunately failed to modernize Islam. The militants, led by Hassan Al-Banna and his partisans, won this battle, and forced their vision to 'Islamize' modernity on the people. They created a certain pattern - a mindset and a lifestyle - and promoted it as 'The Valid Islam,' Al Islam al-Sahih.

They resorted to seduction and fear to impose this pattern on their societies, and made sure to attach an 'Islamic' label to each and every aspect, with the clear implication that other patterns were deemed non-Muslim and illegitimate. An increasingly wide array of things fall under this valid pattern: the Islamic dress, the Islamic banks, the Islamic economy, the Islamic education, the islamization of science, media and the judiciary system, the application and enforcement of Islamic laws, the widespread dissemination of the fundamentalist culture, the promotion of Islamic medicine and the Prophet's medicine, the expansion of Islamic organizations, the marginalization of the national identity of the state in favor of Islamic nationalism, and the islamization of daily vocabulary and political terms ([1]mobayaa, welaya, shura, thawabet al-oma, etc..).

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