Without having experienced the Industrial Revolution, Muslims were easily colonized and defeated by Western powers in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. As the Western world possessed greater technological capabilities, the Islamic world found itself in the position of being conquered very easily. Although at first, the Muslims resisted this domination, their defeat was inevitable given their pre-industrial economies and technology. This took a turn when the birth of a new ideology: Political Islam was born as a response to the cultural imperialism and failure of Western political thought. Unlike Western ideologies such as Marxism, which was designed to achieve a certain end within the Western-dominated global political/economic structure,