I remember my first full exposure to Islam. My university was having a culture day and in the brickyard all the different groups set up tents. So I walked into the Muslim one as I was making my rounds. Now I was 18 at the time. This Jordanian professor had a color coded map of the world dipicting the level of muslims in each country. I noticed that Ukraine was shown as 20%. We started to debate (I was already an avid reader of history and knew that most of the remaining Muslims in southern Ukraine had been shipped out). Eventually, some how we got onto Israel. This guy then states that the Jews want to conquer the whole ME. I asked him how 3 million people could conquer 50 million. He said then why do they need all those guns and bombs? I told him, well you arabs attacked them on the day of their independence.
His reply?
"We were going to get them before they got us!"
End of conversation.