I agree with your point about the fundamental nature of terror embedded in the fabric of the Islamic cult. That is not addressed in the article.
Although Soviet Marxism did not spring from an Orthodox monastery, Radical Islam did arise out of the teachings in the Koran nurtured however by radical western ideologies -think Sayyid Qutb or any number of Musim/Arab intellectuals - educated mainly in the west. Sure the 7th century saw the initial explosion of the cult but the 60s initiated an unholy alliance between left wing ideologies and islamic fanaticsm.
"Radical Islam did arise out of the teachings in the Koran nurtured however by radical western ideologies -think Sayyid Qutb or any number of Musim/Arab intellectuals - educated mainly in the west."
That is fine. But tell me what years the 800 Jews where beheaded. What year did the Arabs march into Jerusalem and take it over? Sort of the prelims taken by Pope Gregory prior to the first Crusade right? And I don't mean to put you and I into a long drawn out debate, but just what is meant by western ideologies? Is this to include the most direct contact early Arabs had between "eastern Orthodoxy: in the form of the Byzantium empire as formed by the eastern Catholic Church?
Point is and history bears it out, is shortly after Islam came into existence it became a very aggresive cult and took over much of the mid-east, parts of Africa, later Spain, blah.....blah ....blah.
Whether or not the Ruskkies had anything to do with proding them into carrying out their mission in life (to subdue and subjugate all infidels world wide, or not is a mute point).
They have had century after century of other countries to use as examples that did just aa bad as the Russians have done. As Muslims had started to be western educated and learn modern science etc, then along with the rest of us, learned how to create (or in their case purchases) modern weapontry, learn how to bomb innocents in the name of allah, plant bombs on airplanes, believe me they did not need the Russians to show them how to do this, etc., they realized that now the time was right to be able to vent their miseries on the rest of the world. Lasty, long before Communism and Nazism came into being, Muslims of all sects have been instructed from childhood to hate with all their hearts the Jews. Their koran tells us that God has punished the Jews and will not allow them to have a land of their own, because they would not submit to allah.
There simply is no way around this. Like I said I have no problems with how the Ruskkies fit into helping them become bolder, but inherently in their sect they are doomed to kill all who do not submit to allah and profess that Mohammud is his prophet.