I am a firm believer that principles never change but doctrine can. Doctrine is not absolute which means it can change and one can still please God. The only thing that has to stay constant is Principle, which acts as the foundation of which doctrines are built upon. There are doctrines in both faiths that have been established by men who did not live in our age and therefore could not accurately or directly address our modern experience. This causes one to have to modernize doctrine which makes it more relevant for today.
Any belief system that chooses not to do this will eventually make it’s own expiration date or loose its ability to grow. The only way to grow and not modernize is throuh famine, violence or force.

I will agree that modernization is not based of of Western ideas, but one can learn from SOME of their Western brothers who have done a good job in embracing change, just like we can learn from SOME of our Islamic brothers who have done a good job embracing principle.

I dont think the reporter even knows what modernization means?

Does modernization really mean wearing less clothes, being naked, not respecting the law or elders etc?

U.S has the most prudish media and laws regarding a persons body and what part of the body can be displayed in public, of any western counterparts. the US has some of the most fundamentalist of religious people and are growing fast in numbers.

Should we consider the US as being the most backward of western nations?