[The_Reader_David]

Rubbish, it started in the 7th century when the mad followers of the false prophet boiled out of the heathen Arabian peninsula to overrun the Holy Land, Egypt, Syria, northern Arabia (now Jordan), all of which were civilized Christian lands.

Just because the Muslims have been intermittenly restrained by pragmatic rulers (as in the case of the Ottomans, who after the last seige of Vienna started to regard fanatical jihadis as bad for business), and go quiet for generations at a time doesn't mean this isn't just more of the same.

Welcome to the 1300-Years War.

[Sam Gamgee]

I thought the same thing. Go back further from 1979 to Black September and its attack in Munich and murder of a US government official.

But, you are right. It goes right back to the 600s. Much Christian blood has been spilled by these monsters over the centuries.