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Thursday, May 13, 2004

Clash of Civilizations


“The question people are asking is why they hate us. That’s the wrong question. In a sense, they’ve been hating us for centuries, and it’s very natural that they should. You have this millennial rivalry between two world religions, and now, from their point of view, the wrong one seems to be winning. More generally, you can’t be rich, strong, successful and loved; particularly by those who are not rich, not strong and not successful. So the hatred is something almost axiomatic. The question which we should be asking is why do they neither fear nor respect us?”

Bernard Lewis
Posted by: Zayphar / 5/13/2004 12:01:00 AM
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