I saw something on either the erroneously named “History Channel” or the equally misnamed “Learning Channel” (I don’t recall which) about the Crusades in which the narrator referred to the Crusades as the 1st Holy War and that the Crusades prompted Islamic hostility to the West that has lasted until modern times!
A little history lesson:

In 622 Muhammad led an army against the Quraysh at Badr, near his hometown of Mecca (these were Muhammad’s tribesmen, from whom he split to form his new “religion”) because they were “unbelievers” (It is not ye who slew them, it is Allah, Qur’an 8:17)

Shortly thereafter he plants the seed of Muslim hatred toward Jews when he announces in the tribal marketplace of the Banu Qaynuqa “Oh Jews, beware lest Allah bring upon you the vengeance He brought upon Quraysh and become Muslims” They refuse & he besieges their city until it surrenders. He then issues orders to “Kill any Jew that falls into your power” Two pieces from the Bukhari, vol.1 book2 no. 24 (the Muslim confession of faith) "Allah's Apostle said: "I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah's Apostle, and offer the prayers perfectly and give the obligatory charity, so if they perform all that, then they save their lives and property from me except for Islamic laws and then their reckoning (accounts) will be done by Allah.” And another (no.25) “Allah's Apostle was asked, "What is the best deed?" He replied, "To believe in Allah and His Apostle (Muhammad).” The questioner then asked, "What is the next (in goodness)?” He replied, "To participate in Jihad (religious fighting) in Allah's Cause."

In 638 Muslims besieged and captured Jerusalem. The next several centuries see an escalation from the “jizya” a tax to be non-Muslim (still in use in Muslim nations around the world today), prohibition against practicing or teaching the Christian & Jewish faiths, building or even repairing temples and churches to crucifixions and beheadings.

711, Muslims invade the Iberian Peninsula and southern France…

831, Sicily…

840, Crete falls…

965, Cyprus…and at every step of the way, taxation, intimidation, forced conversion, torture, imprisonment & even death for those who do not accept this new “religion” So to claim that Westerners are somehow responsible for creating the animosity that these people have towards us is ludicrous using any real study of history and the teachings of Muhammad.

In order to devise a strategy against a foe, one must first define what constitutes a victory, what must we do before the fighting can stop..? History demonstrates that defining the cause of the conflict & hence how to end it is much easier amongst similar cultures than against dissimilar.

We have been unsuccessfully fighting a war with Islam for 1300 years because we fail to understand what they are fighting for. In simple terms they believe that all non-Muslims must yield to them and accept Allah or be persecuted and killed and they believe that giving one’s life in the Holy War against the non-Muslim is the highest form of piety. Folks, it’s us or them, but do not despair history provides a parallel. In December of 1941 we found our nation fighting a foe whose culture was alien to us in the form of the Japanese Empire. They held that their leader was divine, that non-Japanese were racially and morally inferior, that capitulation was disgraceful, that their enemies where to be treated as subhuman and that to die in the cause of the Emperor was to achieve martyrdom. Anyone else seeing it?

We fought the Japanese for nearly 4 years in what was some of the bloodiest and most ruthless combat that the American fighting man has ever experienced until we finally developed the means (we possessed already the will) to make “dying for the Emperor” a horrible reality without any chance to slay the hated enemy nor any “glory”. It was only when they realized that they would indeed all die fighting for the “cause” that living and coexisting seemed like the better choice.

Until we demonstrate the futility of war against us (the fruits of Western culture vs. the stagnation of theirs appear to be no incentive to quit) this will go on until they win and we will cease to exist by our own weakness and failure of will.