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Article: Islam's intramural struggle.
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- The National Interest
- Article date:
- March 22, 1994
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MANY WESTERNERS have speculated that a confrontation between Islam and the West is in the offing. For example, Samuel Huntington wrote in a recent, much noted article, that the centuries-old military interaction between these two civilizations "could become more violent" in the future.(1) But a civilization-to-civilization showdown is not truly likely, for the simple reason that Muslims (and probably Westerners) are too diverse to stand as a bloc.
Instead, the cultural fireworks ahead will more likely take place among Muslims themselves--between those eager to accept Western ways and those who reject them. On one side stand those Muslims confident to learn from ...