Peace be with you (salaam alaikum), Brother Abdullah. You write (quoting briefly), “[T]his means that the behaviour of the people is largely dependant on the environmental conditions the economy, the government etc.” Yes, I agree with you. Sometimes conditions may vary, and the fact is that there are very, very many Muslims today who do NOT live in any, even nominally, predominantly Muslim societies. Allah swt has allowed them to migrate or, in many cases especially, my personal concern, guided them to Islam when they were not before Muslims.

Nevertheless, they simply do not live under a khilafah, however much many Muslims may long for it, and these Muslims have to do as best they can in a non-Muslim environment. It is totally unrealistic to suppose that they might move to an even nominally Muslim country. (And let us be honest and admit that many so-called nominally majority Muslim countries may have serious issues.) This is the reality of the situation of ever so many convert Muslims. Preaching “khilafah” is, to be blunt, irrelevant to them in their day to day lives in the here and now.

Allah swt alone knows whether we will ever, this side of the Hour, have a true Islamic khilafah again. Still, we, especially western convert Muslims, have to struggle along as best we can, and many traditional Muslims will just have to recognize that we live in conditions that the Sahaba (may Allah be please with them) might not even been able to imagine in their dreams. This is the reality of our lives.

Israel like Saudi Arabia practices gender segregation in public places etcetera
As I said earlier, the rabbis have a large say in how the Jewish people view their Deen – as has been warned by Allah in the Quran. And we as Muslim seems to be following suit.

I don’t know what Islamic values do you consider to be intact in the Islamic world. For me there is no justice, there is no accountability of the ruler by the ruled, no sense of humanity, no human rights, no consideration of the rights of others, no equitable sharing of wealth with the less fortunate, no respect for the environment, no equitable treatment of women, but there certainly is killing of the innocents in the name of Islam, divisiveness, hatred, bigotry, prejudice and intolerance. I presume you consider Islamic values to be covering women up fully, men growing beards and spending all their time in senseless religious discussions, waging war against each other and imposing their own view of Islam on others by force. No thank you that is not my Islam.

If some muslims consider libraries to be “places of ill repute” then it is no wonder that the Islamic world is going through the second jahiliyah!

Certainly Allah swt knows best, but I myself would not call a library, at least a public library, a “place of ill repute.” I live in a large county with a large public library system. Am I supposed to not go there even if I want to check out a book by an Islamic scholar — and that library has some — just because there may be some woman in hijab there, elsewhere in the building, attending to her own business? I would say that not every public place is unsuitable.