[2banana]

In the early Middle Ages, the Greek-Roman world of the eastern Mediterranean, Belloc says, had become a "tangle wherein the bulk of men were disappointed and angry and seeking for a solution to the whole group of social strains." Belloc specifically points to widespread indebtedness, usury, slavery, endless Christian theological controversy, heavy imperial taxation and control, and "the tyranny of the lawyers and their charges."

Sounds alot like America today...

[johnb838]

I suppose that after WWI and the destruction of the Ottoman Empire, there was a certain period of dominance by the West, especially when they needed us to develop their oil fields for them. When Saudi nationalized the oil fields it probably marked the beginning of what seems to be the new rise of Islamic Supremacism. I prefer the term "Islamic Supremacist" (or Islamist) to the popular "Islamofacist" because I think their racism and xenophobia are more reminiscent of the KKK than anything else.