The Clash of Ignorance

Abstract

This chapter discusses the clash of ignorance that which dominates the global politics. The Huntington explains that the challenge of Western policy makers is to make sure that, the West gets stronger and fends off all the others, Islam in particular. The carefully planned and horrendous, pathologically motivated suicide attack and the mass slaughter by a small group of deranged militants have been turned into proof of the Huntington's thesis. The modern Islamists, the Eqbal Ahmad conclude, that 'concerned with power, not with the soul; with the mobilization of people for political purposes rather than with sharing and alleviating their sufferings and the aspirations. Theirs is a very limited and the time-bound political agenda'. The reassuring battle orders drawn out of Huntington's alleged the opposition between Islam and the West, from which official discourse drew its vocabulary in the first days after the September 11 attacks.

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