Clash of Civilizations

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Many have argued that the War on Terror as well as terrorism are understandable as effects or symptoms of a clash of civilizations between the West and Islam. Moreover, some have explained that terrorism is an Islamic response to the rise of the West to global preeminence. This paper suggests that these arguments and explanations have merit because Western culture and Islamic culture are incompatible in many ways. Furthermore, the paper suggests, that the result of the culture clash has been that political and religious extremists on both sides have been increasingly advocating violent confrontation, which has taken the form of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism and Western military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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