Islam is an easy target of the vitriol from the West, simply because they have no Pope equivalent. They have no representative in the public eye. Many myths that need to be debunked, one is that the Muslim world is seriously engrossed in hatred of the West, but the enemy that has done the most damage to the Muslim world over many years was, in fact, the Mongols. The Moors pioneered things like the astrolabe which measures the stars, and they had gas-lighting in their streets and were highly advanced people, not like the savages portrayed by the Western media.
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