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the prevalence of zakat in the Islamic societies of today proves that Muslims have not accepted the norms of Western culture completely, why do we have to pay zakat when complying with our taxes in a social state like Britain for instance?

Think the Mulsim leadership overlooked the fact that the copying specific Western developments like their economy and defense technology would come at a cost of the moral decay of traditional Islamic societal values. They, therefore, should have invested in educating humanities, instead of only sciences. This gap was filled (and is still the case) by morality movements like Wahabism and Salafism.

Turkey, for example, found out soon enough that merely adopting western armaments was not enough to stop the western encroachments, there had to be a cultural shift towards the west as well.

what impact did European imperialism have on the Arabs, starting off as instructive power than a retreating force leaving behind states created in western images?