Muslim World in Turmoil

The Muslim world is in turmoil. 

And some blame the west for that. The Muslim world was once a great empire and a place of wealth and learning. Now they can offer the world nothing except cheap oil. Are the west or the Jews and Christians to blame for that? 

It was not the west, Jews or Christians that brought the Muslim world down to the level it is now. It was human nature (corruption and mismanagement). The Muslims were on self-destruct mode and they did to themselves whatever happened to them. 

Similarly and retrospectively, Greece, Rome, Persia, Britain, etc., were once great empires. They, too, saw a collapse of their empires. Even the modern Holy Roman, Hapsburg and Romanov Empires eventually collapsed. And it was for the same reason as the collapse of all those other empires before them. And the Muslim Empire faced the same fate as those other great empires and for the same reason. 

So Muslims want to restore the glory of the Islamic State by conquering the world, again. That is like saying Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, England, Holland, France, etc., want to re-colonize their now independent colonies to return to the days of the great colonial empires. 

Those are ramblings of mad people, just like the mad people of the Islamic State (or ISIS, ISIL, or whatever). And killing people in Paris is not going to get God on your side or help restore the once great but corrupt Ottoman Empire.