How wrong he was:
The impact of the West through trade, governments, and education, has
utterly changed all social standards, practices, and ideals. The old Islam is disintegrating: No one can arrest the process. The new Islam is anxious to incorporate all the progress and ideals of western civilization by a reinterpretation of the Koran.
--Sam Zwemer, Ch 5, Disintegration of Islam (p 196) 1915 (I think)
