A good example is Kenya. There are some very traditional dresses that people who are part of the Muslim minority in the country wear. However, all across the country you see women in Saudistyle Niqab, or Burka. 20 yrs. ago, you would never see this. Now, at least half the Muslim women dress like this.
Why?
Most Imams are educated in, or by the Saudis. They spend huge amounts bankrolling mosques around the world who then are beholding to the Saudi brand of Islam.
And yes, this even happens in North America where they:
...are heavily influenced by Saudi-funded extremists, according to Yehudit Barsky, an expert on terrorism at the American Jewish Committee. Worse still, Barsky told The Jerusalem Post last week, these "extremist organizations continue to claim the mantle of leadership" over American Islam. The power of the extremist Wahhabi form of Islam in the United States was created with generous Saudi financing of American Muslim communities over the past few decades. Over 80 percent of the mosques in the United States "have been radicalized by Saudi money and influence," Barsky said. Before the 1970s, she explained, "Muslim immigrants who came to the United States would build a store-front mosque somewhere. Then, since the 1970s, the Saudis have been approaching these mosques and telling them it wasn't proper for the glory of Islam to build such small mosques." For many Muslims, it seemed the Saudis were offering a free mosque. However, Barsky believes for each mosque they invested in, the Saudis sent along their own imam (teacher-cleric). "These [immigrants] were not interested in this [Wahhabi] ideology, and suddenly they have a Saudi imam coming in and telling them they're not praying properly and not practicing Shari'a [Islamic law] properly." This Saudi strategy was being carried out "all over the world, from America to Bangladesh," with the Saudis investing $70-80 billion in the endeavor over three decades...
http://www.jpost.com/International/Expert-Saudis-have-radicalized-80-percent-of-US-mosques
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