Former Defense Minister Ben Wallace is a just one example of not only deliberate omission of facts, but a reflection of the West’s selective reading of history. Related The West’s selective reading of history Politicians
“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