&gt;<i>That&#x27;s the point, you are putting in perspective unrelated things and unrelated places and unrelated times...</i><p>That&#x27;s why it&#x27;s called a perspective though: because it has to expand the places and times (the &quot;perspective view&quot;) we&#x27;re taking into account to explain a situation.<p>But while expanded, they are not &quot;unrelated&quot; -- the places that had those things done to them are the homelands of those people, all have ancestors, relatives and friends that suffered from those things. And similar things (interventions, plundering etc) happens to this very day. Heck, those ISIS fanatics were pampered initially by foreign powers to topple the, call it whatever but at least stable, regime.<p>&gt;<i>None of the events you listed are related to the polling results that almost half of Muslims think that death should be the penalty for apostasy.</i><p>When you hold people in misery, fear and bad living conditions (and poor education), don&#x27;t be surprised if they revert or held closer to backwards beliefs. Carpet bombing and plundering creates more fanatics than investing or opening a school.