Muslims and the west: a never ending conflict.

              Furthermore, Haqqani does not provide enough hard evidence and support to his mentioned issues and uses irrelevant pieces of information to support his ideas. For example, Haqqani uses the words “generally” and “usually” excessively, showing the audience that his argument is based on implications rather than on hard evidence, which decreases his credibility and shows his lack of support. For instance, the author mentions that “instead of hard analysis, which thrives only in a free society, Muslims are generally brought up on propaganda, which is often state-sponsored. This propaganda usually focuses on Muslim humiliation at the hands of others instead of acknowledging the flaws of Muslim leaders and societies (Haqqani)”. In addition, Haqqani states that “the focus on external enemies causes Muslims to admire power rather than ideas. Warriors, and not scholars or inventors, are generally the heroes of common people (Haqqani).” This proves that once again, the author’s lack of concrete support given to his claims, hence, diminishing his credibility. In addition, the foundation of the whole article’s involvement to the topic is leaning more towards emotions rather than the statements of facts which could have given the essay a good and strong foundation.

               Moreover, Haqqani did not heavily emphasize on the political relationship between Middle Eastern Muslims and Western Christians, implying that Christians living in the west are becoming more civilized and are gradually moving forward, “while the Muslim world’s obsession with military power encourages violent attempts to “restore” Muslim honor, the real reasons for Muslim humiliation and backwardness continue to multiply (Haqqani)”. Haqqani also states that "relations between Muslims and the west will continue to deteriorate unless the internal crisis of the Muslim world is also addressed (Haqqani)", implying that he believes that the only way of resolving the conflict between Islam and the west is by tackling the obstacles within the Islamic community itself. On the other hand, the author of the article "The Roots of Muslim Rage", Bernard Lewis, disagrees. Lewis believes that Muslims have their problems, but these problems could be traced back to the people in the west. He also believes that "the cause most frequent adduced for anti-American feeling among Muslims today is American support of Israel (Lewis)". The Islamic community presumes that their main problem is based upon the support to Israel given by America, making them concentrate on destructing their enemies rather than solving problems found in their society. Also, the author of "The Roots of Muslim Rage” believes that another reason why Islam's rage increases throughout the years is because it all goes back to the westerners. Believing that Islamic communities were trying to imitate the west; however, the whole idea backfired. This attempt to imitate the West brought them poverty when they tried to change to the western economic style, tyranny when they tried to utilize the western political institutions, and defeat when they tried to make use of the western-style warfare (Lewis). This strong support by Lewis emphasizes one of the main reasons why Islam blames the west.

             Overall, the article “Why Muslims Always Blame the West” is not a strong one mainly because the author does not have firm and solid support to the claims he stated, Haqqani did not put into consideration the recent events that took place in the Islamic community and lastly he did not quite stress on the relationship between Islam and the west. Haqqani’s article was mostly based on propositions or implications he made and was more emotional-oriented rather than leaning towards real life facts, thus decreasing his credibility towards his audience.