In the Wake of the West's Internal `Clashes'
Clashes between the West and Islam have occurred for some 1,300 years. The imposition of Western ideals on the Islamic world invites resistance.
March 19, 2002
WAR was fought in the seventh century between the princes, kings and emperors of Europe—all of them Westerners. From out of these wars, nation-states were born. One and a half centuries later, wars were again fought between nations, but it was still the West versus the West. Since the October Revolution of 1917, wars took on the form of ideological conflicts, such as those involving fascism-nazism, communism and liberal democracy. All of
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