There is lots of history of the Middle East and Islam on the web. All you have to do is go to www.jihadwatch.com. Start reading and sampling the links on the right hand side of the page. Those links go on to other anti-jihadi pages which in turn have links to still other pages. There are hundreds of websites about Islam.
Thanks for the information, and please ping me anytime. A bit busy for the moment but will try to go forward with the information as best as can.