Contrary to Samuel Huntington’s thesis of clash of civilizations, we did not witness a “clash” between the West and the Muslim word, at least, on the Denmark’s caricatures. At most, it caused outraged in the streets and economic boycott of Danish products which gradually subsided by lapse of time. Rather a “quarrel” occurred within the West Civilization, an antagonism between the Coalition of the Wiling led by United States along with United Kingdom, Spanish, Italy, Australia and dozens states, on one hand, against the France-Germany’s informal alliance, on the other hand, during the Iraq Invasion  in the early part of 2003. The former espoused a war while the latter insisted diplomacy. The opposing coalitions were driven not for the love of peace neither freedom but of their insatiable competing material and strategic gains in Iraq.
 
Whereas the West was then antipathetical for being protectionist of their opposing national interests, the Arabs and the Muslim World are more disunited by sheer jealousy or hypocrisy or by plain selfishness. The Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Conference, devoid of security component, have not played any major role in recent world affairs. While the denunciations by the 116 countries of the Non-Aligned Nations and the 52 countries in Africa had explicitly opposed the use of military in Iraq; seven Arab countries—Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Oman—joined  the US-led coalition that attacked their neighboring Iraq.

Seemingly, the end of the Cold War and its swift shift to globalization paradigm has brought the world a sustainable peace. But a closer look of recent events, a contrary conclusion would surface. The United Nations under the system of collective security in the preservation of world  peace has became inutile. This was shown in US’s unilateral military action in Iraq 2003 where UN had displayed its utmost timidity. 

	1. Written by Benaning a papanok on 11-10-2007 13:31 - Guest
	Many Muslims believe, including this commentator, that Huntington's clash is well underway, as the US invasion of Afghanistan, 2002 Bali bombings, invasion of Iraq, the danish catoon crisis, 2005 london bombings, 2006 jews-lebanon conflict and the impending US attack on Iran.His theory is already influential among "neocons" of the Bush Administration such as Vice Pres. Dick "Shaitan" Cheney even before 9/11, including radical islamists in the Middle East.

	2. Written by twixie on 16-10-2007 08:47 - Guest
	i read the full length of the article and that the three paragraph is just mere introductory which is just 10 percent of the full article. i dont know why the webmaster did not publish the full article.

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