The revolution of knowledge or science alone cannot be called revolution. From among the social, political or economic system, the complete or at least fundamental change in one can be termed revolution.
At this juncture, there are two aspects of human life.
i. The first one is the individual life.
ii. The second one is the life as member of community or society.
The first aspect of life is quite related to faith, worship and rituals. The second aspect is secular so to say, the first one stands religious as implied earlier.
George Bush once said that we embrace Islam; the point here is that they are ready to embrace Islam as religion with a set of rituals but they are just not ready to accept the politico-socio-economic injunctions of it.
So much so that because of some rogue groups, they criticize Islam and are openly critical, implying that it spread with sword.
In response to the western criticism, many Islamic scholars have adopted an attitude of apologetics. These days the people who assert Jihad are thought of be fundamentalist or extremists promoting the notion of terrorism.
Despite the fact that there are many planted groups who misrepresent Islam and Jihad but ultimately who is blamed is the Muslim community.
There is a key example in history, that of Roman Empire. In 300 AD, the emperor embraced Christianity and his people also followed him in faith.
This was a remarkable turn of matters. But still, it cannot be categorized as revolution because it was associated with faith and may be some rituals, and just not to the secular sides of life i.e. politico-socio-economic.
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