Quote Originally Posted by KafirChobee
First and formost - the interference of the Western powers for the last 800 years.
If we look back between 800 and 200 years we find a few indignities inflicted by Christendom upon the Islamic world - the Crusades, the Reconquista and such. But these were largely attempts to recover Christian lands lost to Islam. And we ought to remember that Islamic armies took the center of Eastern Orthodox Christianity in 1453 and laid siege to Vienna as late as 1683. It seems to me that until roughly 200 years ago, Islam had interfered with the West far more than the West had interfered with Islam.