It's the combination of Middle Eastern bullsh-t religions, Western bullsh-t religions, politics and arrogance that causes the problems, dude.
The Crusades only started because the British couldn't control their own Knights when there wasn't a war on, so they persuaded the Church to invent a war thousands of miles away to get rid of them all. It was VERY nasty and short-sighted. Much like the US supporting Saddam Hussein...
The British have an appalling colonial record. What saddens me is that the new empire - the USA - doesn't seem to have learned anything from our mistakes. Laos, Cambodia, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Israel...
Extremism in any form is bad news.
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