Bismillah.

The post by brother abcxf, seems kind of ironic in several regards. He argues that the Muslim countries are failing to progress because they do not have those critical skills to evaluate and evolve that are taught in institutes such as Oxford and Cambridge.

The Irony is that most of the ruling elite in many Muslim countries, have been educated at Oxford, Cambridge, The London School of Economics, Harvard and Yale, Sandhurst Military academy. The only critical thinking skills these individuals seem to have learnt is how to loot and plunder the resources of these countries, and funnel them into their own personal foreign bank accounts.

Secondly he states he has learnt how to critically evaluate by studying at an elite university, the irony here is that all the arguments he has put forth mirror those of the late Wilfred Cantwell Smith, an orientalist from Harvard university.

Thirdly he states that the traditionally educated Scholars have failed to adopt modern modes of critical thinking in their scholarly endeavours nor in their methods of tuition. The Irony here is that neither Maulana Madwdoodi, nor Syed Qutb were educated in traditional Madrassahs, and both adopted western modes of critical and academic thinking, and both are reviled by the very same orientalists for spreading the ideology of Political Islam.

In conclusion those educated at the likes of Oxford and Cambridge end up with colonised minds, they zealously criticise anything to do with Islam. But uncritically support annything written by orientalists and other critics of Islam.