"There is no compulsion in religion."
- Quran 2:256
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;"
- First Amendment of the American constitution
I believe that Christianity reached the same level of morality in early America as reached by Muslims in Spain and Portugal. Of course both Islam and Christianity also produced bad cultures when they strayed from the right path.
I wouldn't blame the elites for modern problems. Modern culture is thoroughly evil, not just the elites. It is basically the same as the culture of Sodom and Gomorrah, so it will hate any moral religion, not just Islam.