Pipes argues Islam offers no path to modernization except full Westernization

Evidence

To escape anomy, Muslims have but one choice, for modernization requires Westernization.… Islam does not offer an alternative way to modernize.… Secularism cannot be avoided. Modern science and technology require an absorption of the thought processes which accompany them; so too with political institutions. Because content must be emulated no less than form, the predominance of Western civilization must be acknowledged so as to be able to learn from it. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 198

Categorization

• XREF: A statement of the position Huntington will later rebut; contrasts with Huntington’s central claim that modernization and Westernization can be separated.