Islam versus west

Introduction

The relationship between Islam and west was never on equal footing. The dividends of the mutual cooperation between west and Islam served solely the interests of the west. Any war alliance, pact or association worked to increase the west’s supremacy. The Muslim world in return was dictated by western powers and suffered the harsh economic conditions imposed by aid donor western countries. This was a relation characterized by the inequality of the power and resources. The west did not raise the question of differences until the Muslims were blind followers of the west. The moment the Islamic world demanded economic independence and non-interference in internal policies, the issue of Islam’s incompatibility with the west arises. West found Islamic values a threat to the west; it forgot the pluralistic nature of Islam and took it as an ideology as interpreted by Salafism. West took Islam as an anti-west ideology and spread the propaganda of fundamentalism, extremism and rigid concepts of Islam. Western regarded the poorest and underdeveloped people of the Islamic world a threat to them; this created a deep chasm between the west and the Islam.