The Arab World before Islamism

[WinterHold]

My understanding is that radical Islam really took over in the late 80s, early 90's. I admit I'm not well versed in all the why's, i suspect its a multifauceted reason. The results are undeniably bad for everyone, though. One of the reasons for the recent rise of populism in the west is certainly the regression of the middle east, and fear of it.

I wont deny the west has some blame, though. Perhaps not as much as op suggests, perhaps he is correct. In either case, this ongoing culture war of liberalism vs concervativism....west vs east....secularism vs dogmatic extremism, etc, cost human lives.  And though we've sometimes had glimpses of a more unified future, the dumb, angry extremist mobs keep yanking us all back.

I hope humans can move past it one day, but it feels like a pretty slim hope right now.

Peace.

Yes, natives take a big portion of the blame.

But the west:

1-Put gangsters like Arab leaders in charge; read about the "Lawrence of Arabia" for example, Britain gave these gangsters generals as gifts There was no elections.
2-Is supporting these regimes with weapons, military support and intelligence reports. These weapons are solely used against the citezens.
3-The west is hiding this truth, and instead focuses on one sickness the region has and that is Islamist, 
4-Things like the Syria was proved how dangerous and vicious regimes like the Syrian regime are. BTW, The Saudi and Jordanian are even more bloody.

So the west takes a big part of the blame. If the west stopped supporting these Sykes-Picot regimes, these regimes will fall in a matter of days. Remember the 25th of Jan in Egypt?