After the collopse of USSR,the west is in searrch for a new enemy and they found it in Islam.I can give a reference from a credible policy report of CIA vice chairman which will elucidate this.
Graham E Fuller - Vice-Chairman of the National Intelligence Council at the CIA and currently a professor of at Simon Fraser University,recently published his paprer - The world without Islam in Foreign Policy affairs.
...A world without Islam would still see most of the enduring bloody rivalries whose wars and tribulations dominate the geopolitical landscape....
..It is s too comfortable for Western observers to ignore a long history of Western colonialism in the Middle East while blindly identifying Islam as the key source of global tension..
..He notes that the principal horrors of the 20th century came almost exclusively from strictly secular regimes. Leopold II of Belgium in the Congo, Hitler, Mussolini, Lenin and Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. It was Europeans who visited their world wars twice upon the rest of the world -- two devastating global conflicts with no remote parallels in Islamic history...
Review of the report in - The Vancouver Sun -Canada's leading national Magazine
