No one calls these attacks "blowback"

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4. No, it is a late 18h century doctrine

from Ibn al Wahab and adopted by the Al Saud clan as it took control of Arabia. The Saudis have spent hundreds of millions of dollars spreading Wahabism throughout the Muslim world. Islam is an imperialist religion whose followers conquered most countries in the Middle East and forced their inhabitants to convert, discriminating against or killing those who refused. And, a bit more history would show that there was plenty of Islamic imperialism until the early 20th Century. The Ottoman Empire didn't relinquish control of Eastern Europe until they lost a series of wars with Russia and then WW1. You can blame the unrest in Bosnia, Kosovo and Cyprus on the Muslim invasions of Christian Europe and the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan to Muslim imperialism in the Caucasus.It is very simplistic to blame everything on the West. Our misguided policies certainly opened the floodgates, but the radicalism was already there.