More than 30 years have gone by since the North American academic Samuel R. Huntington, who died in 2008, wrote ‘The Clash of Civilisations’ for Foreign Affairs. He then expanded the article into a book in which he stressed that culture, in the anthropological sense of the word, mattered far more than ideology. On that occasion, Huntington’s work was effusively praised by luminaries such as Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Francis Fukuyama, but many others stridently objected to his pointing out that “Islam has bloody borders.” Though this would be confirmed thousands of times in the following years, most Western leaders have remained reluctant to take seriously the warning it implied.
Their refusal to do so is making a major contribution to the political turmoil that is upsetting the established order in the United States and Europe where few “ordinary people” have heard of Huntington or read his writings but most know in their bones that he got things
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