you're on to something here and you'll find that the West's intervention in the region mirror's this today.Ryoki wrote:When you think about it, it was the christians that rode into the Arab lands during the crusades that changed Islam for the worse. The whole radicalism, the military concept associated with the term Jihad, the promises for holy warriors - all that comes from having to whip up an entire people into fighting for their very existance. It's a direct response to the radical thinking that caused the crusades.
Too bad it never changed back.
We've been in their countries fucking with them for hundred's of years.
Do people like Riffraff and busetibi know that Iran had a democratically elected government several decades ago until the USA imposed the Shah as leader?