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Here’s more in depth time line - I added some stuff...

1869 the Ottoman Empire began to decline from Britain and France’s expansion into the Middle East

· 1908 the Young Turk Revolution beings and the Ottoman Empire declines as its joins the Central Powers

· 1928 the Muslim Brotherhood is founded by Hassan al-Banna

· 1933 the Saudi Arabian government signs an oil agreement with Standard Oil Company – a major source of funding has begun for the reemergence of Islam throughout the world

· 1939 the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin el-Husseini joins Hitler to form the Bosnian Waffen SS

· 1964 the Palestinian Liberation Organization is founded

· 1969 the tactic of commercial aviation hijackings becomes a norm among Islamic extremists

· 1970 Palestinians begin terrorism style assaults – this same year Black September attempts to seize Jordan

· 1972 Black September kills eleven Israelis at the Munich Olympic Games

· 1975 Lebanon, the last Christian Middle Eastern country, falls to Islamic invaders

· 1979 the Soviet Union invades Afghanistan and begins a proxy war involving covert ops by CIA to train Arab militias that are the forerunner to Al Qaeda

· 1982 Hezbollah founded by Shi’ites

· 1987 Hamas is founded by the Sunnis and is a faction of the Muslim Brotherhood

· 1989 the Soviet Union fails to Afghanistan and leaves – also the mujahadeen is left to seize control and begins preparing for a larger jihad across the world targeting Western interests

· 1991 the United States throws back Saddam Hussein in his quest to seize Kuwait and further expand Iraqi influence

· 1993 World Trade Center Bombing in New York City

· 1994 Civilian plane flies into White House by Frank Eugene Corder on Sept 13.

· 1995 The first attack on US soil by Iraqi terrorists using US militiamen detonate a Vehicle Bourn Improvised Explosive contained in a Ryder Truck and singly assigning guilt to Timothy McVeigh

· 1996 Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia bombed

· 1998 Two US Embassy bombings in Africa by Al Qaeda

· 2000 USS Cole bombed by Al Qaeda in Yemen

· 2001 Pentagon and World Trade Center Attacks

· 2003 War on Terror begins

· 2003 When the Granada Mosque was completed, Umar Ibrahim Vadillo, a Spanish Muslim leader, encouraged Muslims to cause an economic collapse of Western economies – Islam has returned

· 2005 London Bombings by Muslim extremists

· 2005 Paris is lit by fire and experiences riots by Islamic foreigners

· 2005 the first uses of Explosive Formed Projectiles have entered the battlefield in Iraq by Shia militias

· 2006 Al Qaeda in Iraq is targeted for destruction by Coalition Forces and the push begins

· 2007 the Surge in Baghdad pushes out remnants of Shia militias backed by Iranian Quds Force

· 2007 The Second Court of Appeals of the State of Texas has rendered a ruling on the enforceability of shari’a judgments rendered by imams – the foundation of Sharia in the US has begun

· 2008 Britain allows Sharia Courts to be used by major Muslim areas within this country

· 2008The 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) passes the “defamation of religion” campaign at the U.N and sets law and punishment on those that speak against Islam

· 2009 A Dutch court yesterday ordered the criminal prosecution of Geert Wilders, Dutch parliamentarian and leader of the Freedom Party (PVV), for his statements - written, spoken and filmed -regarding Islam

· 2009 Austrian far-right parliamentarian Susanne Winter was convicted for making the charge that Mohammed was a pedophile for marrying an under-aged girl