“French politicians spend little time discussing socio-economic issues. The most polarised debates revolve around culture wars. In France, they focus on immigration, Islam and its alleged threat to laïcité and French republican values, culture and education. There are constant attacks on ‘Islamo-Leftism’ and ‘woke culture’. These strengthen the hand of the far Right, which traditionally thrives on those issues.”
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51
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