Who Is Responsible?

A friend wrote to me: Do you deny that the West is the reason for our backwardness and that it was responsible for the creation of the Brotherhood, Al Qaeda, and ISIS?  I told him: Yes, I deny with all my cognitive capacity and the summary of my life experience, and repeat that I deny this saying.  The United States of America destroyed Japan and dropped two atomic bombs in the summer of 1945.  Japan was occupied and ruled by an American high commissioner, General MacArthur.  Yet the will of the Japanese transformed the awful defeat of their industrial superiority and staggering economic prosperity.  As for us, we are defeated down to the bone and accuse others of being the reason for our failure.  And there is no one responsible for this backwardness except us due to division and poor leadership.  The intellectual brutality carried out by Al Qaeda and ISIS is a product of our history.  Everything that ISIS has done is described as an Islamic duty in heritage books, particularly Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya.  I do not deny that the West exploits this dark side of our heritage.  But it did not create it.