[AZLiberty]

Princeton historian Bernard Lewis accepted the clash-of-civilizations theory and took it further, arguing in effect, that Muslims have no one to blame but themselves for becoming "poor, weak and ignorant" in the 21st century. Muslim civilization's long, steady decline during the past millennium has been most often marked by a desire to blame someone else for its fortunes rather than to look at itself and try to correct obvious ills, he maintains.

Only representative governments and capitalism have produced immense and widely distributed wealth. If that's "Western", then the Rest will have to embrace "Western" ideals to achieve comparable results.

[Valin]

Part of the problem is, individual freedom(found in the west) V societal order(found in the Islamic world)
As an example here in the west religion is considered a matter of individual choice and no bodies business but yours, if you live in the Islamis world you'd better be a follower of Islam or your life is going to be very...interesting.