Other major aspects of the rise of Islam are:
When America and other nations turned over their oil resources to Islamic control in the name of anti-colonialism and, of course, "fairness". At the time, 50s/60s, Islam was considered a cute primitive oddity. They were not taken seriously at all. Give them pseudo control, we will still pull the strings was the idea. And it worked until Whabbism began to take hold and Islamic militancy began to rise.
Then we have the Israelis. Many people do not know this but Israel was once a very far, far, Left hippy nation and supported the Muslims at every turn. They wanted to create a utopia of Arab and Jew in Israel. Therefore, they did not drive them all out to Jordan, which they could have easily done in 67, but allowed them to stay in-country and offered them citizenship. (They, like Germany, also wanted cheap labor.) But it was more than that. Once the nation of Israel accepted and started to use the fictitious term "Palestinian", which is not a real thing, they constructed a nation which would be against them forever. Their Liberalism was so strong that they could not see the threat they themselves were building. Either you are Israeli, or, get the hell out, would have been a better response.
Then we get to our old friend Jimmah Caatah, who for whatever reason was in love with Islam and considered them to be an 'oppressed people'. So, he overthrew a stanch American ally in Iran and replaced him with a lunatic mullah who wanted to kill just about everybody on Earth. Jimmah, because he is an idiot and a hippy, thought the Ayatollah was a "nice old religious guy". You know, kind of like Santa Claus. Iran after Jimmah's enlightened interference went on to found and build the international global terrorism syndicate that we are dealing with today. Thanks Jimmuh.
The binding theme in all of these things is a discounting of a people as stupid little primitives so we should 'help' them. This is combined with blind Liberalism and the eternal quest for 'fairness', which, obviously, Islam does not give a shit about.
Lack of understanding and a very naive Christian Western view of different cultures and people, has brought us all to this place.
A Jewish proverb says, "What starts out as the tug of a spiders web, can turn into the binding of a rope."
We could have stopped this. But our leaders were too blind and fanatically idealistic to see what they were doing. Even as it was slapping them in the face.
Israel took the land from the British and the Jordanians. There never were any 'Palestinians'. But once they bought into it. They owned it.
