Many westerners bear an undeserved guilt about acting in a capitalist system. This guilt is helping Islam to spread in the West.
The guilt comes from the view that capitalism is making West rich on poor contries behalf. Westerners who feels this hold thoose cultures that is not identified as pro-capitalistic as morally superior about the economic aspect than the capitalist supporting cultures. Non-Muslim Westerners are probably identifying Islam as less pro-capitalistic than whatever belief or cultural system they themselves hold*. If this is true then the non-Muslim Westerners that hold this negative view of capitalism tends to regard Muslims as morally superior about views on economics. A person who in any aspect regards another person as morally superior is "one down" on the other person, which can be expoited by the person that is one-up. A large part of Westerners belief about capitalism therefore benefit Islamists.
Fortunately for truth-speaking persons this view on capitalism is factually wrong**. There are more support for the view that capitalism is a win-win method, with no loosers, that capitalism is a system of mutual growth and not one of trying to grab as much as possible from a constant set of valubales.
If this is true then one way of fighting Islamism is to make people and oneself regard capitalism more accurately and positively.
* Because there are fewer Muslims in "more capitalistic" Western work market positions such as in the financial sector and in management for Western businesses, because of the non-interest aspect of Sharia, and because Westerners mentally connect Muslims to the Middle East, the Middle East generally regarded as less capitalistic than the west, and perhaps because the targets on Nine-Eleven was symbols of capitalism.
** Because they can act to spread the positive view on capitalism without being untruthful.
