“[T]he problem begins the moment we assume that a person’s political behavior can be predicted from their religion or culture. He calls this habit of thinking culture talk : the assumption that if someone is Muslim, their politics, morality, and whether they are dangerous or harmless must somehow come from Islam. In this framework, people are no longer judged by what they actually do, but by a label placed on them in advance.”
“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