When Pope Benedict spoke at Regensburg, (his famous address in which he invited Muslims into dialogue), he got lambasted for it.
Here is a little history behind the problem of the Muslims and their unwillingness to dialogue:
About the time the West discovered Aristotle's Ethics and Politics in the twelfth century, Islam had reached it's peak. The top imams at the time decided that Islam would no longer use the elements of philosophy which had been their strong suit for 500 years. They issued fatwas for anyone caught reading philosophy or teaching it. So in began their decline when they rejected all that they had been able to glean from the Greek philosophers. While the West soared in knowledge.
People are always better off when they talk to each other. The Muslims are not in discussion with the West.
They appear to be stuck in the dark past, because they are.
But take confort, the 21st century tech era is going to in the end force Islam to leave the dark ages behind, that it is in a losing fight.