[dominic flandry]

I guess the "recent history of Western colonial domination" includes the following:

France leaves Syria in 1946 (50% of population under 42 years);
Great Britain leaves Jordan 1946 (50% of population under 24 years);
Great Britain leaves Iraq 1932;
Great Britain leaves Egypt 1947 (50% of population under 36 years);
Great Britain leaves Sudan 1946;
Arabia never colonized or occupied by the West;
Great Britain leaves Yemen 1967 (48% of population under 15 years);
Great Britain leaves Oman 1951;
Great Britain leaves Kuwait 1961;
Soviet Union and Great Britain leave Iran 1945;
Great Britain leaves Afghanistan 1920s (45% of population under 15 years);
Great Britain leaves Pakistan 1948 (50% of population under 20 years);
Great Britain leaves India 1948; and
Dutch leave Indonesia 1949.

The point being that the majority of Muslims have no personal experience living under a European colonial power.

So the theory of European colonization causing Muslim rage is false. Neither the Canadians nor the Americans had colonies in North Africa, the Middle East or the Indian subcontinent. The closest colony for the US would be the Phillipines who won their independence in 1948.

[RedStateRocker]

" The point being that the majority of Muslims have no personal experience living under a European colonial power.

So the theory of European colonization causing Muslim rage is false."

I respectfully suggest that the latter does not necessarily follow from the former. IMHO *part* of the problem with Iran is the blowback from when we got rid of Prime Minster Mohammad Mosadeq in 1953. I mean in the context of the cold war we needed to do it, as Dulles stated but to a degree I can't blame the Iranians for being a bit pissed that we tossed out their elected leader and put a mean, if modern SOB in his place; I'd be irked if that had happened to my grandfathers' generation. Only stating that a DIRECT experience of colonialism is not required.