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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 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.
:The West, he suggested was "at its peak" and its "efforts to promote its values of democracy and liberalism as universal values, to maintain its military predominance and to advance its economic interests" would only "engender countering responses from other civilizations". With ethnicity and religion defining identity, wars would not be about "what side you are on" but "what you are". Military confrontations would take on "an 'us' against 'them' relation".
:The clash of civilisations, would, Huntington suggested, be acted out most violently on the boundaries between them. "Conflict along the fault line between Western and Islamic civilizations has been going on for 1,300 years," he noted, predicting that it would become "more virulent". But Islam's problems would not just be with the West. "Violence also occurs between Muslims, on the one hand, and Orthodox Serbs in the Balkans, Jews in Israel, Hindus in India, Buddhists in Burma and Catholics in the Philippines," he wrote. "Islam has bloody borders.""<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170205101213/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3999461/Samuel-Huntington.html Samuel P. Huntington - Obituary], ''The Telegragh'', 2008</ref>}}
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