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While first received positively, after the [[9/11 attacks]] Huntington's thesis was widely criticized for his famous quotation, "[[Islam]]'s borders are bloody and so are its innards,"<ref>“Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for [[the West]] is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilisation whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power.” https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/38041.Samuel_P_Huntington</ref> implying Islam was at war with much of the rest of the world. The [[George W. Bush]] [[State Department]] immediately repudiated the claim that the [[War on Terror]] was a clash of civilizations, and attempted to marginalize radical Islamic extremists.  

While first received positively, after the [[9/11 attacks]] Huntington's thesis was widely criticized for his famous quotation, "[[Islam]]'s borders are bloody and so are its innards,"<ref>“Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for [[the West]] is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilisation whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power.” https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/38041.Samuel_P_Huntington</ref> implying Islam was at war with much of the rest of the world. The [[George W. Bush]] [[State Department]] immediately repudiated the claim that the [[War on Terror]] was a clash of civilizations, and attempted to marginalize radical Islamic extremists.  

 

An excerpt from the obituary of Samuel P. Huntington published at ''The Telegraph'':

An excerpt from the obituary of Samuel P. Huntington who authored the book ''The Clash of Civilizations the Remaking of the World Order'':

{{Cquote|Huntington identified eight major civilisations in the world: "Western, Confucian, Japanese, Islamic, Hindu, Slavic-Orthodox, Latin American and possibly African civilization." But much of the article examined the scope for conflict between just two of those: the West and Islam.

{{Cquote|Huntington identified eight major civilisations in the world: "Western, Confucian, Japanese, Islamic, Hindu, Slavic-Orthodox, Latin American and possibly African civilization." But much of the article examined the scope for conflict between just two of those: the West and Islam.