Original sentence: There are also political dimensions to the ideology, and the history of Western influence and control after the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, is the common stated reason used within the ideology to justify and explain its usage of violence as resistive and retributive against Western, non-Muslim imperialism and political influence
Edited sentence: There are also political dimensions to the ideology, and the sordid history of Western influence and imperial control after the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, is the common stated reason used within the ideology to justify and explain its usage of violence as resistive and retributive against Western, non-Muslim imperialism and political influence