But Arab and Islamic nationalists in the newly invented Iraq did not want to share their land with infidel European Christians. Nor did they choose to share European values of democracy and pluralism, ideals that had never taken root in the Islamic Middle East for 7,000 years.
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Date: 23 Nov 2004 01:48 (UTC)Problem. Islam hasn't existed for 7k years.