Even radical Islamic fundamentalists have adopted Western institutions like constitutions and elected assemblies

Evidence

Not all the ideas imported from the West by Western intruders or native Westernizers have been rejected. Some have been accepted by even the most radical Islamic fundamentalists, usually without acknowledgment of source, and suffering a sea change into something rarely rich but often strange. One such was political freedom, with the associated notions and practices of representation, election, and constitutional government. Even the Islamic Republic of Iran has a written constitution and an elected assembly, as well as a kind of episcopate, for none of which is there any prescription in Islamic teaching or any precedent in the Islamic past. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1588

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the general theme of cultural borrowing and the ‘sea change’ of imported ideas — resonates with how colonial and revolutionary movements selectively adopt forms while transforming content.