Genuine question as I’m interested in the way people think about this. Given what you have said above which can’t be disputed do you feel that some of the events that happen here are in some way “reap what you sow? I hear people inferring that who I speak to. Some with even a slight edge of satisfaction that we are getting what is coming to us. Maybe a view that a couple of people being stabbed is small fry in comparison.
I think the West’s crusade in the Middle East is less religious and more greed and thirst for resources. If it was a religious concern we would be bombing much of West Africa and Indonesia as well
it's pretty much indisputable that western foreign policy with, as you point out, greed under pinning it rather than Christian ideology, has caused absolute mayhem in the middle east.
From the first paranoid incursion in to Afghanistan in the 19th century, (or was it early 20th), through to replacing, for the Middle east, fairly progressive leaders with tyrants, to arming Bin Laden to fight the Russians and the Blair/Bush invasion of Iraq have all been disastrous.
And all the time letting the Saudis spread their barbaric Wahhabism in exchange for keeping the oil flowing. What worries me is that we don't seem to be learning.
In the here and now we have to deal with the issue of fundamentalism that we've helped create, not sure that the best way to do that is. But a bit of joined up thinking is required for once.
We also need to remember, that muslims have suffered far more than anyone at the hands of ISIS and their affiliates.