Recorded history? Arab? I think human's have been fighting since human history...thinking Crusades. But complicit and power around soil has made us make A LOT of bad choices and the nation-building from both Americans and Europian forces has been the driver of much of the conflict. Middle Eastern oil matters because of price and what it means to our allies. And the new view of Islam as apolitical fourcecrather than a religion is similar to the White Christian Nationalists that current infect little d's brain.
The Muslim ban is all about Jeff Sessions and a Steve Bannon...we must not take our eyes off the real threat they present. And Sessions is the intellectual driver of using fear to foment enough hatred to lean down a path last seen in the 1930's...