It is all too comfortable for many to ignore a long history of Western colonialism in the Middle East while blindly identifying Muslim and their religion as the key source of global tension.Part of wests outlook on the word is fueled by the supremacy in todays science which is built by many civilizations particularly islamic one which they riducle as backward.I see the solution to todays problem lies in appreaciating the legacy of others from which they built thier own edifice.