Why Do Westerners Still Think There’s An Islamic Threat?

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By Jonathan Power* – InDepthNews (IDN) The words still ring in policy-makers’ ears from Harvard Professor Samuel Huntington’s famous treatise, The Clash of Civilizations. This book, in many ways, triggered the paranoia that has infected politicians, the press, and public discourse. “The underlying problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism, IT IS ISLAM,” he wrote (his capitals). Too few in the Western leadership class make the obvious po…

Why Do Westerners Still Think There’s An Islamic Threat?

By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 23 September 2025 (IDN) — The words still ring in policy-makers’ ears from Harvard Professor Samuel Huntington’s famous treatise, The Clash of Civilizations. This book, in many ways, triggered the paranoia that has infected politicians, the press, and public discourse. “The underlying problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism, IT IS ISLAM,” he wrote (his capitals). Too few in the Western leadership clas…