For God's sake there's nothing new in what has just happened. Only the scale has changed. The "war" between the "East" and the "West" has been going on for thousands of years. Think back to the invasion of Greece by Xerxes and the stand of the heroes at Thermopylae. A bit farther along we had the invasion in the opposite direction under Alexander. Then the Mongols, the Crusaders, the Moors, the wars under Suleyman who reached as far as Austria until defeated at the gates of Vienna in 1529. As for fanatacism I believe the original assassins were fostered under the "The Old Man of the Mountain" - Hassan Ben Sabah in the 11th century. He would have been proud of those who have inherited his murderous mantle. We never learn from history - sadly.