Why would anyone characterize the more than a billion people in widely scattered countries located all over the world, embodying and embracing dramatically different cultures, and even religious practices, as though they were all one, monolithic, "civilization"? (ie: characterizing it as a collision of civilizations between European, American, Israeli, and Muslim)   And why would anyone try to characterize all of the Arabs in the Middle East who experience tensions with Israel as Muslims? And why would anyone characterize American, European, and Israeli civilizations as not including Muslims? Why is the category, "Muslim" set apart from all nationalities as though it was its own civilization that exists outside of all nationalities?

It reminds me of something I read once in which someone was making characterizations about how Christians behave as opposed to how Black people behave. See the problem here?

I would suggest that the problem will never be resolved as long as people continue to mischaracterize the issue as being Muslims against the rest of the world. It's how we frame that problem that is the problem.