In fact both political islam and islamist terrorism are British invention. British intelligence is all the way behind Hizb-ut-Hahrir a first of it’s kind terrorist organization designed to deter Israel back to late 40s. Brits viewed Israel a threat and an American tool to take an upper hand over the British influence in the Middle East.
Soviets took a bit advantage from this crap in 70s, true but it was alive and well earlier.
If you really want to look into a Russian-designed regimes and Islamo-Marxism learn about Baathism and look at Saddam’s Iraq, Assad’s Syria, pre-Muslim Brotherhood Egypt and Lybia.
All of the above were secular lower middle class societies to some extent. Islamic extremism was brutally controlled and non-muslims were protected via KGB-style institutions.
It looks like it backfired on the Russians.
Correct -- all were secular and the jihadis were killed off. The problem is, thanks to Obama, all of that is changing
We should never have taken out Saddam in Gulf War I -- he was threatening the Saudis and they got their "blue eyed slaves" to protect them. By keeping troops on SAudi soil, Osama got the excuse to attack on 9.11
WE have been played for fools since 1990