Salafism is overconfident reform like Protestantism, which happens to be deistically implicitly rationalist like modernity and thus open minded to a kosher industrialization. Sufi Islam is a stagnant psychosis like catholicism which is promoted by duopoly due to ease of manipulation. But there are third integral alternatives like Episcopals try to achieve. So, even if Eastern reform is politically disempowered, it can help modernity reconcile with its own history and heal its own identity crisis which has led to bored narcissistic rage towards perceived and elusive other.
A spiritual Ishmaelite 