Samuel Huntington - The Clash of Civilizations (1996):
Och ett kvartssekel efter Clinton jiddrar västledare alltjämt om att islam inte är ett problem, men möjligen islamism, men framför allt "islamofobin". Man tar sig för pannan.
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The term la guerra fria was coined by thirteenth-century Spaniards to describe their "uneasy coexistence" with Muslims in the Mediterranean, and in the 1990s many saw a "civilizational cold war" again developing between Islam and the West.
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Cold peace, cold war, trade war, quasi war, uneasy peace, troubled relations, intense rivalry, competitive coexistence, arms races: these phrases are the most probable descriptions of relations between entities from different civilizations. Trust and friendship will be rare.
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Cold peace, cold war, trade war, quasi war, uneasy peace, troubled relations, intense rivalry, competitive coexistence, arms races: these phrases are the most probable descriptions of relations between entities from different civilizations. Trust and friendship will be rare.
Citat:
Fault line conflicts are particularly prevalent between Muslims and non-Muslims.
Citat:
Some Westerners, including President Bill Clinton, have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history demonstrate otherwise. The relations between Islam and Christianity, both Orthodox and Western, have often been stormy. Each has been the other's Other. The twentieth-century conflict between liberal democracy and Marxist-Leninism is only a fleeting and superficial historical phenomenon compared to the continuing and deeply conflictual relation between Islam and Christianity.
Och ett kvartssekel efter Clinton jiddrar västledare alltjämt om att islam inte är ett problem, men möjligen islamism, men framför allt "islamofobin". Man tar sig för pannan.
