Why don’t Muslims realize they need a reformation?

Islam and the West have been at war for 1400 years.

The West has changed, Islam hasn't.

They probably went through the pros and cons and decided killing everybody who wouldn’t follow the rules was easier than changing the rules.

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Why don’t Muslims realize they need a reformation?

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Because "Derka Derka!"

Or they just followed what their Quran told them to do, slaughter non believers

Because you can only make them change a herd think like, once every thousand years or so.

Religion is a political tool to control AND organize (economically and militarily) mass differing populations under a common system. The revolutions of the people haven't done it. Until enough of the population chooses western conveniences over backward systems there will be no change.

I don’t think Muslims will ever choose western ways, unless they are forced

Jihad Report
Apr 27, 2019 -May 03, 2019

Attacks 30
Killed 176
Injured 69
Suicide Blasts 0
Countries 12

The Sri Lanka attacks dropped off the weekly Jihad Report.

They are seriously some violent mofo's.

Arguably, the religion had a reformation from the middle of the 19th to the middle of the 20th century, as you had specifically anti-colonial versions arise, while you also had what was called Islamic Modernism, which eventually lost out to hardliners. You can pair this with what's called the Islamic Revival, which has been a renewal of interest in the faith, spurred on by the failure of secular states to avoid certain pitfalls, such as corruption and authoritarianism. It has been argued that the religion, as its now practiced, is functionally much different than it how it was practiced for most of its history. Some of this is technological, while other aspects of this change is political.

For example, the veneration of saints in Classical Sunni Islam has a very robust history, but the Wahhabis reject it, as it was a practice developed due to the distance to Mecca, and there was no strict Quranic basis for it. That technically is a reform, and from what I gather, the veneration of saints isn't as strong in Islam as it once was. Yet it has a strong cultural history, and the practice is older than the Wahhabi sect itself. The Sufi orders were the nodes of resistance in many places, and thus were targeted by colonizers, which weakened them, if not destroyed them.

I'd suggest there is going to be a massive backlash to the Islamic revival, as the governance that has arisen isn't better than the versions that arose during the secular era. We've seen some evidence of that backlash, in the form of Arab Spring, but I think it's only the beginning.