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Is Islam the cause of the 'Clash of Civilizations?'
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Is Islam the cause of the 'Clash of Civilizations?' By Namit Sachar Following the end of the cold war, several thinkers proclaimed that the world had entered a new phase in which there would be no major conflicts; Francis Fukuyama wrote a book proclaiming that it was the 'end of history' (The end of history?,1989). The idea was that in a unipolar world, with no superpower rivalry to fuel them, economic activity would be everyone's prime concern and any conflicts would be localized and brought under control. This utopian vision was soon contradicted by the outbreak of religious and ethnic conflicts in many parts of the world including Yugoslavia, the Caucasus, Kashmir, Indonesia and parts of Africa. These, especially the conflict in Yugoslavia seemed to indicate that old ethnic and religious rivalries that had been kept in check under superpower dominance were now coming to the fore. Faced with this...
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