If you want to rule the world, converting everybody to Islam might be a good first step, as it allows for a single rule and single ruler to rule over all.
If you want to rule the world, secular humanism, the kind that america represents, is the ultimate weapon of mass destruction...
Maybe the freedom and liberty that america spreads is different than the freedom and liberty the Savior of the world provides...
Maybe this is why people feel persecuted... maybe Our Heavenly Father has used His enemies and continues to, like He did when Israel went a whorring....