The Spread of Radical Islam
Though a “clash of civilization” is highly improbable, a partial clash between radical Islamists and the West as well as modern states and allies of the West has already been unleashed and is likely to continue, if not to increase. It is nourished by numerous elements: the Iraq war and its abuses are interpreted as an attack on the Muslim world as a whole, by new recruits bred in the conflicts of Iraq and Afghanistan, by the desperate economic situation of young people in Muslim countries, by the teaching of radical and suicidal Islam, and by the daily images of the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.