“ Neither Jean-Luc Mélenchon nor Emmanuel Macron know what laïcité [French state secularism] is , yet Macron wants to teach Muslims that “Islam is in crisis.”
“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