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Originally Posted by AntonMG
Muhammad was born in 610, that makes Islam itself "only" 1400 yo.
As for Radical Islam (Wahhabism) it started at the end of World war I (1918).
Now, this "Radical Islam" you mention was "only" active in the arabic peninsula and put to a rest by Roosevelt's deal with Saudi Arabia just after WWII (deal to get the recently found petrol in the area).
Now, Radical Islam outside of the Arabic countries mostly started after the US mingled with the Iranian Revolution to overthrow the Shah in 1979.
This is what most historian agree was the sparkle that created the current state of things.
It's common knowledge that Bin Laden was initially trained in the US by the CIA.
Oh, and for the ones that have a few minutes and would like to document themselves before flaming me down, here's what the French Prime minister had to say to the request from the US to go to war (again) in Iraq.
For the laziest, just skip to minute 12 (for a couple of minutes).
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the wahabi movement began in the 1700s.
ISIS initially developed completely removed from al-quaeda and was originally called Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, the 2 groups have very little if anything to do with the other.
and France and England carved up the Muslim empires as spoils of ww1, and add in the creation of israel in the 40s and you can see that the USA came along and entered the ME fray much later.
so to make your point more clear, the West's meddling in the ME is responsible for radical Islam.
thus the need for the entire West to contribute to eradicating it, including Canada.