Focus Article: Islam Challenges Our Ability to Make Distinctions
by Kersten Knipp
The American political scientist Samuel Huntington passed away in December 2008. Did his now famous phrase, the “Clash of Civilizations”, go to the grave with him? The German author and Islam expert Stefan Weidner doesn’t think so. As indicated by the title of his latest book, Manual für den Kampf der Kulturen (Manual for the clash of civilizations), Weidner believes that civilizational clashes are not a thing of the past and will remain with us in the future. The big questions here are who will be involved in these clashes and where will the front lines be? Read more…
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