Without this, there is a grave danger of exaggerating the civilisational conflict between Islam and the West.
ECONOMIST: Islam and the West
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Perhaps it should serve as a healthy cold shower for any modern civilisational warrior who sets out to present the course of history as a simple tug-of-war between Christianity and Islam.
ECONOMIST: The Crimean war
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But arguments in favour of Islam's compatibility with democracy are in perpetual danger of being drowned out by a mixture of depressing news from Muslim lands and zealous ideologues on both sides of a looming civilisational divide.