re: If Islam is a peaceful religion, then why isn’t there peace in the Middle East?

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If Islam is a peaceful religion, then why isn’t there peace in the Middle East?

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Your question is so callow and ill-defined that it defies any meaningful response. There have been cultural and nationalistic conflicts in the region for centuries that are unrelated to religion. Research the life and experiences of of T..E
Lawrence for a small flavor of those conflicts...

Why have Christian nations gone to war?
I do not defend Islam. It is an ancient religion that arose within a particular culture.

It has been exploited and used for political power for centuries and certainly in recent decades, the response to the displacement of Palestinian populations being an example.

The extreme fundamentalist version of Islam is certainly antithetical to our western values...

Part of it stems from British geopolitical philosophy. Great Britain being separated from the rest of Europe by the English Channel protected their interests by playing continental powers off of each other. They would frequently support the second strongest country in a conflict against the strongest country to manipulate nations into fighting each other, leaving the English alone, often profiting off the war.

This tactic was frequently used during colonialism where the English would carve up a territory to purposefully include multiple different tribes, ethnicities, or religions/language groups, empower the second largest group as the ruling class, and then use the conflicts between the different groups to make English the language franca and the Colonial government the arbiter of disputes.

Not only that, but they would carve up their colonies to separate resources from one another so that colonies would be dependent upon Great Britain to survive and would not be sustainable independent from the Empire. The British did this purposely to keep colonies from uniting into successful nation states as the Americans had done (despite our own shitty internal borders).

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There was a long period of peace in the Middle East, then 1948 happened…

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lol.... wut?? I can't wait to hear this reasoning.

God dang yall it's not complicated.
Now?
Oil/money/power
Remove oil from the ME what do see happening.

Then.
4,000 BC to 7th century AD
Same as everywhere else.
Empires large and small.

Birth of Mohammed
Spread by the sword was Mohammedism all the way to Spain and it's last gasp into Austria.

Mongols golden hoard
Aztec
Vikings Englanders
want to think they went nowhere else
The Indus empires
The Phoenicians
The Roman's
On and on
Win or lose nature abhors a vacuum.