And...
Supposedly, all but 2 or 3 of the current world conflicts (some 100 of them) have muslims/Islamics on one side of the conflict.
Don't doubt that.
"Supposedly, all but 2 or 3 of the current world conflicts (some 100 of them) have muslims/Islamics on one side of the conflict."
Well, duh. We are talking around 20% of the world's population spread over the threecontinents where most of the worlds conflicts are being fought.
And I'll make another blindingly obivious statement: All but 2 or 3 of the world's conflicts have Christians on one side of the conflict or the other -- because Christians are another big time religion spread over those same three continents. And yes, there are Christians in places like India and China -- and at least one insurgency involves Chinese Christians resisting the People's Republic's attempts to make them give up their religion.
"Supposedly, all but 2 or 3 of the current world conflicts (some 100 of them) have muslims/Islamics on one side of the conflict."
http://www.strategypage.com//fyeo/qndguide/default.asp?target=WARS.HTM
WARS UPDATE: Number of Wars Declining
Quick & Dirty Guide to Wars In The World
"The number of wars has been declining sharply since the end of the Cold War.
There were about fifty wars going on in 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed.
Ten years later, there were half as many. Even after the 911 attacks, and the
invasion of Iraq, the number of wars continued to decline. Today, it is about
twenty. We track sixteen as active (Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, Sudan,
Colombia, Kashmir, Pakistan, Ivory Coast, Congo, Somalia, Nepal, Sri Lanka,
Philippines, Chechnya, Burundi and Thailand.), plus about a dozen that are
really low level, just ended (and still liable to restart) or just dormant for
the moment.
There's been a lot less fighting, and people killed, every decade since the
1940s. A lot of this has to do with nuclear weapons. The major nations, those
that can afford nuclear weapons, and a lot of non-nuclear ones, are more
reluctant to get into a fight with each other. It's still likely that, some
day, one of the growing number of nations with nukes, will use one against a
neighbor. That will reinforce, for everyone, the need to be careful with
nuclear weapons, and wars in general.
Many of today's war are taking place in areas where no one is in charge, and
no one wants to be in charge. Africa is a favorite spot for these kind of
wars, but even here, the peacekeeping troops eventually show up."
"The War on Terror has become the War Against Islamic Radicalism. This
movement has been building for over half a century, and has been around since
the early days of Islam. Historically, it has flared up periodically in
response to corrupt governments, as a vain attempt to impose a religious
solution. The current flare up is international because of the availability of
planet wide mass media. Only two countries, Sudan and Iran have established
Islamic governments, and both are failures. Islamic radicalism itself is
incapable of mustering much military power, and the movement largely relies on
terrorism to strike a blow for the cause. Most of the victims are fellow
Moslems, which is why the radicals eventually become so unpopular with their
own people that they run out of new recruits and fade away."