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“ليس ينبغي للملك الحازم أن يظن أنه لا ضد له ولا منازع ، وقد ينجم الضد والمنازع من حيث لا يحتسب ، وما أكثر خجل الواثق ! وما أقل حزم الوامق ! وما أقل يقظة المائق”
― أبو حيان التوحيدي, الإمتاع والمؤانسة

“Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history demonstrate otherwise.”
― Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.”
― Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

“This, then, is the truth of the discourse of universal human rights: the Wall separating those covered by the umbrella of Human Rights and those excluded from its protective cover. Any reference to universal human rights as an 'unfinished project' to be gradually extended to all people is here a vain ideological chimera - and, faced with this prospect, do we, in the West, have any right to condemn the excluded when they use any means, inclusive of terror, to fight their exclusion?”
― Slavoj Žižek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates