Today the interest is to be presented Islam as bloody and brutal. If the media gets its platform, it will be presented as bloody and brutal with the appropriate series of images, news, no matter how I argue against that. Another day, if the interest will be to introduce Islam as fashion, its revelations will be put in the mouths of selected people who are allowed to play the role of the "good", then it becomes a fashion.
Keeping people in fear has many purposes. Forced defense investments, loan disbursements, military operations, seizures on regions, threats to surrounding countries, testing new techniques by proxy wars, demonstration of strength, etc. Today we are the bad guys, even though we quote lines from the Quran that call for peace.
A friend of mine drew my attention to the beautiful and noble thoughts of Buddhism. It is spreading in the East. I don't argue, I agree. But nobody is interested in nice and noble thoughts, believe me. I am not targeting the role of Buddhists in Myanmar against Rohingya Muslims. There is an absolutely different issue in my mind. I am confident about the peace of Buddhism. But suppose, if time comes when China's interest will be to involve Buddhism or the Dalai Lama as a major negative player in politics, then China will do it. In that case, a group of Buddhist monks in a Shaolin dress will blow up part of the Great Wall of China and the war against the Buddhist terrorism will be declared immediately. The Chinese military will take a preventive strike against Tibet, occupies its posts and ensures that the sources of many rivers in the Himalayas, the largest of them, the Indus, Brahmaputra, Ganges and Irrawaddy, will go under Chinese control. And here it is! Just with a little story of Buddhist terrorism, the lives of several countries will depend on a great superpower. Who then will be interested whether Buddhism is peaceful or militant? Who will read and search it? Certainly, there will be true monks who profess the teachings of Buddha, but there will be paid "artificial" monks who will be involved in "making the Buddhist terror." From that point, everything depends on communication and we can throw away our millennial writings. The masses do not need Scripture, but a circus. And they get it.
The same is true with Islam. If the Arab oil runs out, peace suddenly breaks out in the Middle East, and there is no more interest in creating chaos, playing role of savior and making people to live in conflict between each other, then it will be suddenly found out that there is no more peaceful thing in this world than Islam and come on! There will be such a Hollywood blockbuster in which the majority of positive roles assigned will be Muslim. But by then we'll be hunting for pearls in the seas and loading camels for desert trips because not even a drop of oil will be left under our countries.

That is because Allah is the (only) Reality, and because whatever else they invoke besides Him is Falsehood; and because Allah,- He is the Most High, Most Great. (Quran 31:30)