“The system abandoned him long before he picked up a gun. But he did not turn his anger toward those who had cast him aside. He turned it toward those who looked different, spoke differently, those who had come seeking refuge in a country that had once promised safety The political class, unwilling to face the deeper economic roots of social decay, has allowed xenophobia to become the easy answer .”
“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