Ooh, Burn!   (quote)

It may help to understand [Middle Eastern Westernization as distinct from modernization] if we view [it] in a broader historical perspective. In such a perspective, cultural innovation is not and never has been the monopoly of any one region or people; the same is true of resistance to it. There has been much borrowing both ways, and disciples have not always been faithful to their models. Medieval Europe took its religion from the Middle East, as the modern Middle East took its politics from Europe. And just as some Europeans managed to create a Christianity without compassion, so did some Middle Easterners create a democracy without freedom.

 -Bernard Lewis, What Went Wrong?