I think you're correct to a degree. I don't think they just wake up looking for a fight. Instead, I believe that there are fundamental differences in the cultures that have inevitably led to strife and will continue to do so. If you look at the history of Islamic fundamentalism, its originators, such as Kotb, experienced American materialism for exactly what is was and Kotb decided that it was "ungodly" and dangerous to the souls of individuals. From his perspective, and from others of his ilk, being violent toward material cultures is the work of God and necessary for your own good. The Calvinists were notorious forced conformers. As were the catholics, back in the day. Our only hope for peace is for the west to become Islamic and oppressive to the masses (not bloody likely) or for strong secular institutions to develop in muslim countries, allowing the students to escape from forced religious education and instead have industrial drives. At least that is my 2 cents.

Edit: Thanks for the compliment, Zhumanchu. It's implied in my post, but I should call out the fact that had it not been for the European Reformation, driven ironically by Calvin (recall he is a forcer of conformity. Baptists and Presbyterians are Calvinists. They believe only a set group get into heaven and that they must force evil humanity to act nice - basically pushing people around and making others miserable while feeling smug about the fact they are of the chosen group who will get into heaven. These are my least favorite of the Christians.) and Luther (who was much more friendly a character. He promoted the idea that the Christian's god was not exclusively the Catholic church's boyfriend and so doing Catholic things wouldn't get you into heaven. Instead you'd have faith that Jesus was your savior. This personal faithy experience would crack open the pearly gates.), (BTW, the reformation allowed the native Christian folk to provide financial loans, as opposed to the pre-reformation era during which mainly only Jews were able to loan money while it was illegal for Christians to loan money. [Some argue that the roots of anti-semitism are directly tied to Christians not wanting to repay loans and would instead kill or expel those to whom they were in debt. Kings and aristocrats were often times indebted to Jews. (Kings would run out of money and had to borrow money in order to pay for wars they were compelled to launch in order to steal money from their neighboring countries. Kings being in debt to Jews allowed for a society-wide persecution.], Christians would not have been allowed to loan money. This newfound freedom to loan money built some very very powerful dynasties in the form of banking families, some of which exist to this day. There were quite a few up in the Netherlands. Anyway, as the financial system developed, it created what we would refer to as a middle class but I believe are referred to as the "merchant class" in historian's circles. These Reformed christians developed Capitalism - the practice of basing society around the exchange of goods and services for money. It's a pretty stable way to run a society for reasons we could get into. I mention all this because the middle east hasn't directly experienced a similar process. Rather, they inherited a lot of western influence and institutions rather than organically going through this process and getting all of the psychological and sociological benefits. (well, what I would call benefits) As a note to anyone who wants to contest my suggestion that their has been no Muslim reformations - Don't get me wrong. They've had reformations of their belief systems, but nothing that led to Muslim's being able to put religion in the corner like Christians have.

Another factoid that you may like to know is that Communism was a direct refutation to the ideas of Capitalism which allows a small group of people to become incredibly wealthy and powerful while exploiting the masses. (WhooHoo that Scott Walker's Union busting law was overturned) Communists were forcing conformers as well, but they were, like Capitalists, materialists. This is why you see Muslims in Georgia attacking Communist people. Remember that Muslim extremists want everyone's souls to go to heaven or hell. They can't just sit back and wait for people to die. They use violence to send them to hell in order to send a message to other ungodly folks that they best conform or risk an eternity in flames.

Ain't life fun?