Apple is known to be a monoculture, fully vertically integrated, walled garden, hostile to open standards etc. BUT it also often has way better quality than anything else on the market, and pushes the bar for the whole industry. Like a rising tide that lifts all boats.
I think Islam is the same way. It is highly “vertically integrated”. This is why it’s harder to assimilate/integrate. For the past ~200 years this has been kind of bad, stifling innovation. But when vertical integration works, it REALLY works1. AND makes it resilient towards “bugs” from other cultures & vulnerabilities.
The average media literacy of the Arab is likely lower, and yet, they are harder to psyop, because of this integration.
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see: Islamic golden age ↩