The West's actions in the Middle East are based on a fundamental misunderstanding. From Erdo?an's Turkey to the so-called Islamic State and the Syrian Civil War, political Islam is repeatedly assumed to be the main cause of conflict and unrest. This dangerous over-simplification dominates media and policy analysis on the Middle East and skews intervention, preventing long-term solutions and stability. How did the West get everything so wrong? And what can be done to break the vicious circle?Omer Taspinar, who has 20 years' research and policymaking experience, shows that the West's obsession...