Don’t know if I agree. Look at pictures of Iran, Afghanistan, and other ME countries in the 1950s and you couldn’t tell they are Islamic. We need to figure out what happened since then.
The first Muslim mosque in north America was in Ross ND. Most people don’t know that because those Muslims assimilated, they didn’t blow others up.
You raise an interesting question here.
I read somewhere, now forget where, that the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, when here in the US for some college coursework, was scandalized by the way women and men interacted with each other at a school dance (remember those?). This, according to what I read, was one of the reasons for his radicalization.
IIRC, and I might not, this same source claimed that the reason he was scandalized was because no one at the dance talked to him/tried to interact with him. He was just invited as some trophy in other words.
Anyway very interesting if true. I’m not sure this even fits in your timeline (I think the MB was founded earlier in the last century). But if true an interesting glimpse into how such radicalization such hatred starts. From some of the smallest things, things we may consider even trivial. Kind of puts even more importance on acting like a Christian every day, with whoever you meet.
Never can know the consequences. Might even be global.