The deeply incautious use of the word ‘tradition’ in the Western context by some people actually points to something appropriated by the Roman Empire, a religion founded by a Pharisaic rabbi from a Hellenic background, and propagated among other Hellenes, a man who never met the Prophet of his time, peace be upon him, and who was rejected by his disciples.
That Prophet had said that he was only sent for ‘the lost sheep of the Children of Israel’, and yet his teaching was rejected by the majority, although not all, of those lost sheep and became the mass religion of the Roman nexus, the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches, helping to perpetuate its power in various guises to this day.
Arguably that toxic mix of Pharisaic Judaism, exhausted Hellenism and Roman power is the very core of the issues we face today on all sides.