There is no doubt that the relationship between the West and the Muslim world is witnessing a multi-dimensional crisis that impels all of us who take interest in developing, propagating and defending Islamic ideas and thought to formulate a more accurate and refined message to be addressed mainly to the West, and to exert more effort in appreciating the questions often raised by Westerners regarding Islam, with a view to assuaging the fears of the target readers.

Islam is revelation from Heaven protected and shielded by Allah from any falsehood... It stands above all suspicions and is not, therefore, subject to any accusation... iIt hais no need for humans to defend it. However, believers are responsible for purifying the message of Islam and for presenting it in its best unadulterated form to the best of their ability to non-Muslims.
This is a human task to be undertaken by the proponents and adherents of Islam, and this has nothing to do with the promise of Allah to protect and shield the message itself from being distortioned. Many Muslim scholars, when defending Islam, confuse the myriad of Islamic achievements that have contributed to edifying the human civilization by treating them as the contributions of Islam while when they are mainly and merely contributions of Muslim human beings who understood themselves, the world they lived in, and tenets of their religion which guided their efforts and helped them perfect such achievement.