Islam is thus not the simple structure so often portrayed. Those who find the present fact of Islam adequately explained by the Koran and the life of Muhammad are simply beyond help. — Carl Heinrich Becker
“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