Oh if you really want to play historic game you'll have to go back a bit earlier in time :p
Catholic roman empire?
Does it ring a bell in terms of massive invasion? ^^
But my point was never to say "bah we're the evil ones we've started the crusades blame ourselves and let us all kill ourselves in regrets"
Not at all.
Yes? And then what? That was the evolution of the pagan Roman Empire. BTW the Romans were pretty much uninterested in Arabia and were allies to the northern arab tribes against the Parthians. So the southern arab tribes could keep fucking goats and fighting for nuts with the squirrels until Muhammed turned up in the 5th century.
My point is that the problem is NOT ISLAM. The problem is that we've been destabilizing, attacking, killing hundreds of thousands of innocents men women and children only to steal them their ressources.
Is it evil? Well it's human nature, I'm not going to judge, and I'm using those ressources.
But islamic extremism is just the consequence of that, there is no reason and no need to feel like we're the victims, that's all I'm saying. They're the victims and we fucked them pretty hard. That's all I'm saying.
I think you are wrong. Islamic extremism was present from the very beginning and Islam itself is a fertile ground and perfect cause for extremists. There are countless historic examples how muslims massacred, colonized and exploited "unbelievers". Basically it's promoting a system what isn't any better than the Nuremberg Laws. The history of islam is a 1400 year history or imperialism, colonization and bloodshed. I know they trying hard to victimize themselves, but if you take a look at the historical evidence actually in most cases they were the aggressors.
About the ongoing issues I must say, their own leaders sold off their ass to us, of course we fucked them hard. Problems started when the above mentioned leaders tried to screw the deal to divert the growing anger of their hard fucked ppl while in the same time tried to get away with the bag.