Islam has done a terrible job encouraging the arts over the past century (maybe longer). Focus has all been on how many STEM professionals we can create. The steriotype of kids having to be dr, engineer, scientist. Really damaged our creative abilities so that now we either look at our own trying to innovate in this space and call them bad muslims or just have patheticly poor taste where we imitate everything western (or eastern now too?).

As Islam currently struggles with its own identity in hypermodernity it leans into doubling down on its own racial steriotypes (arab, desi, etc). This will have an interesting effect where western islamic culture gets formed from multiple directions. At one point it wants to distignish itself from secular western society while at the same time it wants to show itself as unique and yet derivitive of traditional islamic culture. It makes for the perfect oportunity for a techno-islamic synthesis. Very excited for this!