Whoa partner ... 1948?
Are you sure you want to go there? I'm happy to but I don't think you're going to like it for two reasons:
(1) I'm going to lay out for you some of the history of the consciousness-raising that was a concerted effort (contest, in a way, if you figure in the Chicoms) of the Soviets who -- like their Corsican brother Mao -- were most interested in forming a "radical arc of Islam" which would serve to embroil the US, fudge our heretofore happy and most-profitable association with the Arabs and lever into position the collectivization of the ME soviet's economic and security systems.
(Having just finished doing the dirty work for the Russians -- for whom we rolled out a red carpet, mined on our own side, for good measure in Pristina -- where the Leninist objective of collectivized security/economy in Europe was concerned, we're now free to make good on our September 2000 promises to "re-organize" Afghanistan and serve as useful idiots in the confecting of a ME soviet on the same model as the EU.)
(2) You're going to open a can of worms best left closed on this board where the terrorist operations of non-Muslim religious fanatics are concerned.
After all, it would be wrong, would it not, to arbitrarily begin in 1948 just as all the hard work of decades past where political murder was concerned finally paid off ... landing the Soviet and Fascist-sponsored terrorists the cattle prod with which they would electrify the Muslim world, invoke perpetual revolution and embroil Uncle Sam with the brunt of Big Brother duties for a recalcitrant charge who has proven more than once he doesn't really need Big Brother's help (will box his ears, even, when he gets in the way) and picking his pocket or his brain on behalf of Sam's mortal enemies.
" Whoa partner ... 1948?
Are you sure you want to go there? I'm happy to but I don't think you're going to like it for two reasons: "
Yes, I want to go there. I want to go right back here:
" What, exactly, in the history of the FSB since its inception leads you to believe they are somehow beyond slaughtering children? "
What in the history of the moslems leads you to believe that they are above it?
You made a distinction about "recent" history, so I went with that. Is 1948 too recent? Not recent enough? Pick your own year and tell me what leads you to believe that moslems are not above slaughtering children. Moslems have been killing them for years in Israel.