The mistake of blaming Islam

As-salamu alaykum. One big error some Christians fall into is always blaming outside forces for the social, moral, and cultural problems in their society. Right now Islam is being made the scapegoat, but before that other groups were singled out - Jews, heretical sects, and so on. Many conservative Christians don’t seem able to look critically at their own tradition. Instead of examining what structural issues within their faith and institutions have led to these modern problems in Western society - including declining belief - they point fingers outward. We should be asking why these changes happened in the West and not in other civilizations, like India or the Islamic world. Part of the reason Muslims are treated as enemies is geopolitical: Zionism has tied into Western imperial projects, and when crises hit - like the refugee situation that Western policies helped create in part - it’s easier to attack a weaker group. I think some of this comes from the deep mix of Greco-Roman heritage with Christian tradition: elements of Roman law and Greek philosophy were woven into Christianity, and that created tensions and contradictions that later produced ruptures. Maybe if voices like Tertullian’s had been more influential, things might have gone differently. Finally, remember we Muslims are a minority in the West and have limited influence there. So why are we being blamed for problems that arise within someone else’s civilization? Wallahu a‘lam.