Re: an extremist happy about California fires, touting it as a "punishment from Allah
Islam is about optimising justice not removing it. Again it should be stressed that the ill-fatedness of Shari'ah was prophesised, why? ... because the Muslims would become materialistic.
Historians generally agree that the fall of the Ottoman state was due to the failure of its economic structure and social structure that couldn't adapt to free market capitalism. Ottoman society was based on war and couldn't handle the new world order. Bascially, the inability of followers and leaders to adapt, change, and evolve - the same issues we have today and the reason for the continual decline of Muslim societies. You can say it was the materialism of the rest of the world that doomed Muslim dominance, but not the materialism of Muslims. A return to a stricter Islamic fundamentalism isn't going to solve any of that.