The idea of Islamic terrorism against Christians was founded in politics, intertwined with America’s activities during the Cold War; in his article “Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: A Political Perspective on Culture and Terrorism,” Mahmood Mamdani claims that “the mujahideen and al-Qaeda were neofundamentalist products of the Cold War—trained, equipped, and financed by the CIA and its regional allies.” Islamic neofundamentalism evolved out of the Cold War, after the United States recruited radical Muslims to fight against the Soviet Union; the policies of the United States, which encouraged terrorism in other countries that harmed the Soviet Union, therefore led to the formation of an organization that would attack the United States. Furthermore, the Cold War also brought about conflict between Western Christians and Arab Muslims regarding sophisticated weapons such as nuclear bombs; Samuel P Huntington’s “The Clash of Civilizations?” states that while “[t]he West [promoted] nonproliferation as a universal norm,” “non-Western nations … [asserted] their right to acquire and to deploy whatever weapons they think necessary for their security.” Here, Huntington’s claim shows how Western Christians battled with Arab Muslims for political control, each group wanting to control…