Problem with today’s Muslim culture is that it is centered too far right. Religious literalism is very high among most Muslims pockets...
Islam is probably only religion where followers see too much into holly text. By followers I mean, vast majority of intellectuals, scholars, not just religious leaders. There is too much fascination with 7th century Arab Trible culture and too much faith in a book written 14 centuries, from economy to social to governance and to every day life detail problems are rest on right interpretation and understanding on this one book...
No other culture is that delusional and put all their eggs in one basket. If poor and illiterate to that, one can understand. But such a high number of intellectual, are emotional about those midevil beliefs with same ferocity as a layman...
Culture is dead for centuries, nothing is moving forward, everybody is hoping to change things, on every failure, they go back to the book, oh maybe we are not following those versus properly...
They go back to endless comparisons to midevil life, which has no relevance in modern times. Dynamics are completely different, tool chain is different, you need to build culture on completely different norms and platform. Anybody who talk about changing the core, is outcasted and made to leave the culture and community. As a result Islam has not faced serious resistance from within, despite been failure to produce anything meaningful or have an serious impact in the world for centuries...It is not good for Muslims that Islam is left unchallenged
Attaturk wanted to do some of that, divorce away from religion, inject modern and secular values in new Turkey. Problem was his methods were less democratic. Unfortunately they were based on military model, probably Man of Army force things rather than inspire free thinking culture... Turkey divorces itself from Islam but adopted military cultural of nationalism, rather than liberal, progressive cultural. Those values did not go too far...
