The whole trouble the US had with Islamists in the Philippines from the turn of the century up almost to WWI, and the Philippinnes has had other Oslamic insurgencies all the way to the present.
The principle trouble the US had was with Filipino nationalists - the same ones who'd been fighting the Spanish. The Spanish and the US found it convenient to present them as religious fanatics. The final holdouts were indeed Muslims because they live in the most inaccessible parts, and have never been fully eliminated. The rest of the country, you'll be aware, has been firmly Catholic since the Inquisition. The Spanish had a policy for subject Muslims, which boiled down to "eradication".
The start of the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928 which continues to strongly influence events even today ...
I was referring to days before 1979, during which time the Muslim Brotherhood was kept firmly in check and had no influence on anything. Only recently has that altered at all.
... the 3-way power struggle in Iran betput down every other forween Islamisst, Monarchists, and Communists that ended up with a western-supported coup which ended up with the Shah in charge ...
There was no Islamist influence, there was a straight contest between democrats and the Shah's aristocratic (and kleptocratic) clique. Neither side hade any love for Islam, or concern for their power. Mosques only became important because the Shah's police state was so successful in closing down all other potential centres of dissent.
... to his overthrow 20 years later.
The power-struggle between Islamists, various types of liberal democrats, and leftists
after the Shah ran away was what I highlighted as the first emergence of Islam (and subsequently religion generally) into modern public affairs.
There have also been some events in what you may vaguely recall as the British Mandate of Palestine. A whole country was created there as a refuge for Jews after WWII, which enraged Islamists who have been at the forefront of the effort to exterminate said country ever since.
The inhabitants were mostly Muslims, but the Christians and Jews were pretty enraged by it as well. The Jewish Homeland was not created for reasons of religion, nor was it opposed for that reason. It was created for the Jewish
race, or more specifically the enlightened European Jewish race which was going to modernise its benighted brethren. It was and is a war over land. Zionists have always been very explicit about their nation being a secular one, and their war a race-war, not a religious one. That only changed recently, when the US's Islam button became such a hot one.
