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The mess was started a long time age when the Allies stuffed up the breakup of the Ottoman Empire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes%E2%80%93Picot_Agreement
by sien 9y ago
The mess was started a long time age when the Allies stuffed up the breakup of the Ottoman Empire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes%E2%80%93Picot_Agreement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes%E2%80%93Picot_Agreement
It is, of course, easy to be wise long after the event.
- pyre 9y ago... or when the Mongols brought about the end of the Golden Age of Islam. ;)
- davidgay 9y agoWhile it's tempting to look for a single, recent starting point for Western-Muslim issues, it's also worth mentioning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Martel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Martel (about 1200 years earlier). And then, >350 years later, there's the crusades.