Oil money has led to a very slight improvement in the living standards of the Muslim world. Very slight. However, that tiny improvement has led to a population explosion of enormous consequence to the West.
Now the Muslim world cannot feed, clothe, house, and care for itself, yet it is rich enough to arm itself and point untold millions of "jihadists" toward those peoples whom they have identified as the cause of their poverty and misery. Us.
We are the caravan they are getting ready to raid. Byzantium, Tours, Granada, Lepanto, Vienna, Mohacs, and the West has forgotten.
I heard that they are selling real estate in Iraq. there is a new real estate franchise over there. It is called Century 7. LOL