"The Islamo-facist sea within which the terrorists swim constitutes an ideological challenge that is in some ways more basic than the one posed by communism. What will be the broad march of history from this point forward? Will radical Islam pick up ever more adherents and new and more powerful weapons with which to attack the West?"
"The Muslim community will have to decide whether to make its peace with modernity, and in particular with the key principle of a secular state and religious tolerance. The Islamic world is at the juncture today where Christian Europe stood during the Thirty Years War in the 17th century: religious politics is driving potential endless conflict, not just between Muslims and non-Muslims, but between different sects of Muslims (many bombings are the results of Sunni-Shiite feuds - author's comment slightly revised). In an age of biological and nuclear weapons, this could lead to disaster for everyone."
Source: Fukayama, Francis (December 3, 2001). Their target: The modern world. Newsweek, Special Issue Terrorism, 58-63.
Fukuyama is Bernard Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University and the author of "The End of History and the Last Man."
"The Muslim community will have to decide whether to make its peace with modernity, and in particular with the key principle of a secular state and religious tolerance. The Islamic world is at the juncture today where Christian Europe stood during the Thirty Years War in the 17th century: religious politics is driving potential endless conflict, not just between Muslims and non-Muslims, but between different sects of Muslims (many bombings are the results of Sunni-Shiite feuds - author's comment slightly revised). In an age of biological and nuclear weapons, this could lead to disaster for everyone."
Source: Fukayama, Francis (December 3, 2001). Their target: The modern world. Newsweek, Special Issue Terrorism, 58-63.
Fukuyama is Bernard Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University and the author of "The End of History and the Last Man."
