Muslims must really start improving themselves

In a time when Muslims find themselves boxed in from all sides because certain powers believe subjugating a set of people is a means to an end. Laggards who are easily influenced by leaders they trust for no reason other than they are from their own religion or community join in the subjugation and start rationalising wrong doings by quoting references and history books that exist nowhere but in the minds of those leaders who are after their own agenda. It is easy to see this phenomenon in history during the crusades, inquisitions, Holocaust, pre emptive strikes by America, trump's shenanigans and the growing intolerance in America and the Sangh parivar's atrocities in India against Muslims Christians and backward classes.
Most Muslims realise this and feel helpless. You see your brother's and sisters being killed in Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Burma, Kashmir and various other places and hope that people will realise that Islam is a very good religion after all. Maybe this Islamophobia is good and interest in Islam will increase. However, what most of us don't realise is that most of the problems maybe because of us. Maybe our very nature of being sad at the news of some calamity falling on our brothers and us getting sad for sometime but going back to work as if nothing had happened is to blame.
Yes for all is worth Islamophobia has increased interest of people who wouldn't have bothered to look up Islam. That is god's way of damage control. Damage that we have done. And we still are not stepping up to do or jobs.
Dawah or invitation is one of our duties as a Muslim. But we keep away from it citing friendship and career. It may affect our friendship or relationship at work. Why are we not looking for other ways to do or job. Is it that we just want to shed crocodile tears for our brothers and sisters but when the time comes to take some concrete action we are just strangers to them.
Most of the newly interested people are turning to the internet for information. What they are getting is dubious sites that are spreading false information about Islam. No wonder they will feel that the people responsible for wrongdoings against Muslims are somehow justified. Go to quora and see the number of questions about Islam and the answers. People having the wrong agenda give false information sometimes even disguised as Muslims or Muslims who have learnt that Islam is wrong.
This is a God given opportunity to do dawah even without all to look the terrifying excuses that you had about broken friendships and lost jobs. But first you need to learn what Islam is yourself. It has been a long time you have been dating the Shahadah without knowing about the religion you profess to believe. Pick up that book called the Quran you know to be the message of God and find out what that message is. Then get on the net and do the job you are supposed to do as part of Muhammad's ummah.
Clarify doubts, tell the truth about false accusations. Give some time everyday or at least every week. Recruit more brothers to do the job.
And while you are at it start doing one more thing if you are not doing it already. Start greeting everyone. Give salaam to fellow Muslims and other preferred greetings to all you know. Don't be stingy in this regard. Everybody should be greeted in such a way that if for any reason you pass people by in a hurry they should stop you too ask if everything's ok since your did not greet them.
Peace!