When General Allenby landed in Palestine, the first thing he did was to visit the grave site of Salah-ud-Deen. He kicked his tomb stone with his boot and said "We're back, Saladin!" If you've been led to believe that the West's wars with Muslim countries are not crusades, you need to switch the source you use to get your information. Crusades are not intended to eliminate Muslims because no one seriously believes it's possible. Crusades are to suppress, defeat, humiliate and control Muslims. And they have been very successful since the Sykes Picot treaty of 1916 and the Balfour declaration of 1917. The modern crusades started with colonization of India by the British then the occupation of Algeria by the French in 1832. Colonization continued to grow until the Ottoman Empire, or what Sykes and Picot called "The sick man" collapsed in 1923.
The crusades have taken many appearances other than military. In Turkey, it took the appearance of secularism. In many of the Arab and Muslim countries it takes the appearance of alliances. Media and education have been used extensively by the West to confuse and weaken Islamic priniciples.
The West has never really got the simple fact that all of their efforts will eventually fail and that Islam is here to stay because God promised it will. "They want to extinguish the light of God with their mouths and God refuses but to complete His light even if the rejectors hate it." (9:32) The more the West fights with Islam the more Muslims pay attention to it and stick to it and the more Westerners become curious about Islam and many of them convert!! It is ironic, isn't it? The best thing the West can do to stop the wave of conversions of its people to Islam is to stop attacking Islam then people won't be so curious about it, LOL!
God sure is great!