translate English to German: Of course, the reason why this happened is that the process of modernization, the political and economic centralization employed by the colonial and post-colonial states, destroyed those communities that had provided the basis for the Durkheimian or low- culture style of Islam.
Die modernen muslimischen Nationen, und insbesondere die postkolonialen, sind nur noch die Summe der Muslime auf einem bestimmten Territorium.