Islamic Imperialism by Dr. Efraim Karsh

Submitted by A. Khan (United Kingdom), Aug 23, 2006 at 22:12

So, I would rather refer to the millenarian confrontation between the worlds of Islam and Christianity as a "clash of imperialisms" rather than a "clash of civilizations." But then, while the West had lost its imperialist ambitions by the mid-twentieth century (having lost its religious messianism centuries earlier), the fuel of Islamic imperialism remains as volatile as ever, and this ambition for world domination is the primary threat confronting the West today.

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