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The problem runs a lot deeper to the very sources of Islam i.e. Quran, Sunnah and Hadith and to the basic way of how we extract and deduce 'Islam' out of these sources. The moderates or say 'dunyadar' Muslims won't be able root out the problem. But their pressure will help if some conditions are met...

Mutation, in the new generation of a species, leads to the birth of organisms who differ in their features from each other. Only those organisms survive whose features are compatible with the environment, and the rest of them die. Darwin called this process Natural Selection.

The way natural selection of species happens in the biological world, Natural Selection of ideas happens in the social world. Only those ideas survive that are fit and relevant to the contemporary world. The Islamism and pan-Islamism got popularized in Muslims in a response to the shortcomings of capitalism/colonialism and socialism in the 20th century. Now that the side effects of the capitalism are being handled exceedingly well, the soil is fertile for the seeds of an 'individualistic' Islam.

The problem lies with those madrassahs and schools that are teaching only one fiqh or interpretation of religion/history and therefore, not giving any options to child to select from. We need to, if nothing else, shut down such institutions and replace them with institutions where relatively neutral teachers teach a neutral syllabus.
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