The Turks were at the gate, it's true, but they weren't in the living room, and they certainly weren't in the bedroom. “In 1517, few western Christians worried that Muslims might have a more convincing message to offer than Christianity or that Christian youth might start converting to Islam. As these radicals saw it, history was just getting interesting.”ĭestiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes On down, one to go was how it looked to the jihadists and the Wahabbis. Modern Muslims also confronted two superpowers, and they had now brought one of them down entirely. The First Community had defeated the two superpowers of its day, the Byzantine and Sassanid Empires, simply by having God on its side. Looking at all this, Jihadists saw a pattern they thought they recognized. In Afghanistan, Muslims had not just beaten the Red Army but toppled the Soviet Union itself. In Iran, it seemed to them, Islam had brought down the Shah and driven out America. On the other side of the planet, however, jihadists and Wahhabis were drawing very different conclusions from all these thunderous events. “In America, conservative historian Francis Fukuyama wrote that the collapse of the Soviet Union marked not just the end of the Cold War, but the end of history: liberal capitalist democracy had won, no ideology could challenge it anymore, and nothing remained but a little cleanup work around the edges while all the world got on board the train headed for the only truth.
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