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for those interested - Tom Holland's Shadow of the Sword is a very good read. If you're unfamiliar Holland's a historian who has written on a number of subjects and does well to make the subject relevant and engaging. Shadow of the Sword details the early formation of Islam and the contributing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_hlMK7tCks sums it up for me

someone mentioned oil a while back - it's worth considering how a pipeline may have been a major factor in the whole situation developing. This article dates to 2013 and is quite prescient. http://ftmdaily.com/what-jerry-thinks/whysyria/