They don't need to create it... there's already a religious war.
Of course, I don't see it as a clash between East and West or Islam and Christianity or Right and Wrong... Good and Evil, but a war within Islam. Progression and regression. Reformation or stagnation.
It's a bit unfair to call Islam an innocent victim in this. Those who stone and oppress women, destroy the trappings of other religions, spit on human rights granted by Islam to all... they do honestly believe Islam, or at least their twisted vision of it, is right and allows them to do this..
you should know that you speak about two billion of Muslims people around the world..and not about group of terrorists people.
the controled west propaganda ..drawing very black vision about islam...I think simple a merican and west people can't be free from the negative thoughts about Islam.because this need,,, efforts to remove the previous ideas and search without bias about the reality situations and history.
Your summary of it is a bit... incomplete. We must look towards all of recent (past 100 years or so) of key Muslim players and Islamic thought/political theories and events in the Middle East to understand the situation today. It's not as simple as Usama and the CIA, not by a long shot
OK,,,again you made relation between Islam as a religion and political events,,,because American system want it to be like that ...when they decided to creat the new enemy after the end of the cold war.
I see that you pointed that it is necessary to take idea about the political circumstances in the arabs world before 100 years ago. to know how the hate between west and arabs start and way ...( again it is not Islam but political avidity).
In 1914 Enver Bey's alliance with Germany led the Young Turks into the fatal step of joining Germany and
Austria-Hungary in
World War I, against Britain and France. The British saw the Ottomans as the weak link in the enemy alliance, and concentrated on knocking them out of the war. When a direct assault failed at
Gallipoli in 1915, they turned to fomenting revolution in the Ottoman domains,
exploiting the awakening force of Arab nationalism.
The British found an ally in
Sherif Hussein, the hereditary ruler of
Mecca (and believed by Muslims to be a descendant of the family of the Prophet
Muhammad), who led an
Arab Revolt against Ottoman rule, having received a
promise of Arab independence in exchange.
But when the Ottoman Empire was defeated in 1918,
the Arabs found they had been betrayed, indeed doubly betrayed. For not only had the British and the French concluded a secret treaty (the
Sykes-Picot Agreement), to partition the Middle East between them, but the British had also promised via the
Balfour Declaration the international
Zionist movement their support in creating a
Jewish homeland in Palestine, which was the site of the ancient
Kingdom of Israel but had had a largely Arab population for over a thousand years. When the Ottomans departed, the Arabs proclaimed an independent state in
Damascus, but were too weak, militarily and economically, to resist the European powers for long, and Britain and France soon established control and re-arranged the Middle East to suit themselves.
See also: French Mandate of Syria and British Mandate of Palestine
Syria became a French protectorate thinly disguised as a
League of Nations Mandate. The Christian coastal areas was split off to become
Lebanon, another French protectorate.
Iraq and
Palestine became British mandated territories. Iraq became the "
Kingdom of Iraq" and one of Sherif Husayn's sons,
Faisal, was installed as the
King of Iraq. Palestine became the "
British Mandate of Palestine" and was split in half. The eastern half of Palestine became the "Emirate of
Transjordan" to provide a throne for another of Husayn's sons,
Abdullah. The western half of Palestine was placed under direct British administration. The already substantial Jewish population was allowed to increase. Initially this increase was allowed under British protection. Most of the Arabian peninsula fell to another British ally,
Ibn Saud.
Saud created the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia in 1922.
Meanwhile, the fall of the Ottomans had allowed
Kemal Atatürk to seize power in
Turkey and embark on a program of modernisation and secularisation. He abolished the
caliphate, emancipated women, enforced western dress and the use of
Turkish in place of
Arabic, and abolished the jurisdiction of the Islamic courts. In effect, Turkey, having given up rule over the Arab World, now determined to secede from the Middle East and become culturally part of Europe. Ever since, Turkey has insisted that it is a European country and not part of the Middle East.
Another turning point in the history of the Middle East came when
oil was discovered, first in Persia in 1908 and later in
Saudi Arabia (in 1938) and the other Persian Gulf states, and also in
Libya and
Algeria. The Middle East, it turned out, possessed the world's largest easily accessible reserves of crude oil, the most important commodity in the 20th century industrial world. Although western oil companies pumped and exported nearly all of the oil to fuel the rapidly expanding automobile industry and other western industrial developments, the kings and emirs of the oil states became immensely rich, enabling them to consolidate their hold on power and giving them a stake in preserving western hegemony over the region. Oil wealth also had the effect of stultifying whatever movement towards economic, political or social reform might have emerged in the Arab world under the influence of the Kemalist revolution in Turkey.
During the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, Iraq, Syria, and Egypt made moves towards independence. In
1919,
Saad Zaghlul orchestrated mass demonstrations in Egypt known as the First Revolution. While Zaghul would later become Prime Minister, the British repression of the anticolonial riots led to the death of some 800 people. In
1920, Syrian forces were defeated by the French in the
Battle of Maysalun and Iraqi forces were defeated by the British when they
revolted. In
1924, the independent
Kingdom of Egypt was created. Although Kingdom of Egypt was technically "neutral" during
World War II,
Cairo soon became a major military base for the British forces and the country was occupied. The British were able to do this because of a
1936 treaty by which the
United Kingdom maintained that it had the right to station troops on Egyptian soil in order to protect the
Suez Canal. In
1941, the
Rashīd `Alī al-Gaylānī coup in Iraq led to the British invasion of the country during the
Anglo-Iraqi War. The British invasion of Iraq was followed by the
Allied invasion of Syria-Lebanon and the
Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran.
In the region of Palestine the conflicting forces of Arab nationalism and Zionism created a situation
which the British could neither resolve nor extricate themselves from. The rise to power of German dictator
Adolf Hitler in
Germany had created a new urgency in the Zionist quest to immigrate to Palestine and create a
Jewish state there. A Palestinian state was also an attractive alternative for Arab and Persian leaders to British, French, and perceived Jewish colonialism and imperialism under the logic of "
the enemy of my enemy is my friend" (Lewis, 348-350).
The British, the French, and the Soviets departed many parts of the Middle East during and after
World War II. Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the Middle East states on the
Arabian Peninsula generally remained unaffected by World war II. However, after the war, the following Middle states had independence restored or became independent: