

“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.”
― The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
― The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

“Arabs and other Muslims generally agreed that Saddam Hussein might be a bloody tyrant, but, paralleling FDR's thinking, "he is our bloody tyrant." In their view, the invasion was a family affair to be settled within the family and those who intervened in the name of some grand theory of international justice were doing so to protect their own selfish interests and to maintain Arab subordination to the west.”
― The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
― The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
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