“Opinion | The Clash Of Civilisations 2.0: The Demographic Invasion Of The West?”, News 18, November 26, 2025
“In the early 1990s, Samuel P. Huntington propounded his thesis on the ‘Clash of Civilisations’ that people’s cultural and religious identities will be the primary source of conflict in the post-Cold War world. The American political scientist argued that future wars would be fought not between countries, but between cultures. Predictably, the West’s liberal-democratic-secular templates denounced his thesis as biased and Islamophobic.
Less than a decade later, this cultural conflict surfaced in bold relief when, on September 11, 2001, Islamist terrorists flew hijacked civilian aircraft into landmarks in the USA. In four coordinated attacks, they killed nearly 3,000 people. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had denounced the United States as the “Great Satan” during and after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, to characterise America as a powerful enemy of Iran and Islam. Initially, therefore, some suspected that Shia terrorists had carried out the 9/11 attacks.
It dawned soon, however, that these terror attacks were planned and executed by al-Qaeda, a terror outfit with roots in Saudi Arabia. Its chief, Osama bin-Laden, a Saudi engineer, and his deputy, Dr Ayman al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian physician, were not illiterate or poor Muslims nursing grievances against non-Muslims, especially the Jews or Christians. They were rich and trained in the West’s “secular” education system. Why did they turn anti-West…….”
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