Although Zia became a hero in Washington when, in 1979, he gave full support to the United States after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, it was he who brought about Pakistan's rapid Islamization.
The leader of the Progress Party, Siv Jensen, earned some notoriety in 2009 for using the phrase "stealth Islamization" in a speech, the same year the party became the second-largest in Parliament.
Much more successful have been above-ground fundamentalist groups that use strong-arm tactics to push for Indonesia's Islamization.
An urge to defend the nation's ghairat — a blend of intense patriotism and heightened religiosity — underpins the country's soaring anti-Americanism and growing calls for the Islamization of society.
Ennahda has long been criticized for allowing what the opposition calls a growing Islamization of the country, and a tolerance of extremist groups: Salafis and jihadis who were recruiting young men to fight in Syria, and groups preaching fundamentalist views and threatening women who worked outside the home or went unveiled.
Lou Ann Zelenik, a Republican primary candidate who campaigned fiercely against the mosque and "the Islamization of our society," was defeated by a wide margin.
In the 1980s, under the military dictatorship of Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, the blasphemy law was introduced as part of the Islamization of society.
Some political commentators say the show's popularity reflects the increasing Islamization of this Muslim-majority nation of 28 million.
It is clear that many customs and usages native to non-Arab societies prior to their Islamization found their way into Islam in the form of reputed or alleged traditions of Muhammad, though always on the condition of their general compatibility with Islamic tradition.
Aboulela appears to be aligning herself with French revisionist and Muslim convert Roger Garaudy's call for an "Islamization of modernity" rather than a "modernization of Islam".
Pamela Geller, the American blogger whose inflammatory campaign to "Stop the Islamization of America" has led her to buy advertising space denigrating Islam and organize protests against mosque-building, was informed this week that she is no longer allowed to travel to Britain.
