Actually Art - the West has been in and out of the ME for centuries - starting with the Crusades. 
Christianity and Islam and their respective variations and permutations have fought wars, slaughtered each other, subjugated each other or lived in uneasy peace with each other over the centuries. 
I knocked Guilty White Liberals (and their fellow travellers) because they can't stop their "It's all our fault" pity party long enough so we can have adult conversations.
Such as. 
Most of us know Islam is NOT the terrorist problem but the terrorist problem is PART of Islam. 
We have to eradicate it. 
But to GWLs? 
Oh no - Islamophobia is the real danger. 
Worse than useless.
And the sad irony, because the West lacks the political spine to face the truth and come out swinging, the true moderate Muslims that live happily in the West and are often the victims of Islamic extremism themselves are left twisting in the wind wondering if any place is safe from the nutters.