Ahmad bin Baz: "We Muslims have found ourselves at the tail end of the world's progress. The Muslims are always on the receiving end, and their only role in life is to receive from others. Western society has become the society of innovations. It is Western society that produces and adapts itself to the changes of life, whereas we Muslims have become passive recipients of all these innovations, and all we do is sit down and ponder whether these innovations are permitted or forbidden by Islam. This is a definite sign of our weakness. [...]
"There are not enough muftis, and this has formed a vacuum, which is being exploited by the [Islamist] TV channels, and every Tom, Dick, and Harry has entered this field. [...]
"In my view, the so-called Islamic 'Awakening' movement – not all of them, I don't want to generalize... Their fear of the West and their never-ending adoption of conspiracy theories have led them to be suspicious of everything, and to think that everything must have something else behind it. Therefore, they tend to consider any invention to be forbidden, or to be part of a conspiracy. [...]
"The term 'Land of Polytheism,' 'Land of Islam,' and so on were coined by...
