Tbh I wish it were different... We'd be able to onboard many more if Muslims in Muslim countries would lead the way. Not much influence we American Muslims have... Comparatively. Or maybe that doesn't matter if we can build more influence in cyber.
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I get what you mean. We've got some really sharp Fiqh scholars in Turkey, for example, but they've grown up under a fiat system and their paycheck depends on the government. So they'll never dive into stuff like self-sovereignty and free money. They're also way too tied to this idea of a "strong state" historically, and in the recent centuries it's been the difference between surviving or going under for them. And they're right about that, history confirms that.
And then you've got total laymen like us, who have probably only wrapped our heads around one thing, which is how truly awful Riba is and that we absolutely don't want it for ourselves or our kids.
It's that gap that's got us all frozen up.
American Muslims will aways have a sway over cyber (at least in it's current English dominant way). Things aren't geographically limited anymore. A Muslim cyber culture by default is already influencial.