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He watches the Arab Gulf states project confidence onto the world stage and mistakes what was renounced for what was retained. The skylines are real, the sovereign wealth funds are real, the global ambition is real. What he gets wrong is what produced them. Tucker sees this vitality and attributes it to Islamic identity, to some civilizational coherence the secular West has abandoned. He has the causation exactly backwards. The Gulf states are thriving precisely because they retreated from Sharia, not because they embraced it.

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Tucker rightly interprets Europe's exhaustion as proof that the secular liberal project has failed, but wrongly concludes that a strong, Islam-centered civilization is ascending. He is looking at the wrong variable. What is actually ascending in the Gulf is technocratic authoritarianism draped in Islamic aesthetic. It is MBS, not the Quran, running Saudi Arabia. And MBS's first order of business was crushing the clerics.