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| Is this a Clash of Civilisations raging outside the walls of the Imam Ali Ali mosque in Najaf? Are the steel-helmeted US soldiers and their rag-tag foes picking up where the Crusaders and later the Ottoman armies left off centuries ago? |
| That would fit the sweeping theories earnestly put forward by Samuel P Huntington, author of the weighty Clash of Civilizations: the Remaking of World Order. The Harvard professor spelt out his extreme beliefs back in 1996, when Osama bin Laden was a name known only to intelligence agents who kept an eye on the Arab world. |
| The crumbling of the Twin Towers was still five years away when Huntington launched his scathing broadside against the Muslim world. Were his words spookily prescient or were they a tragically lucky hit? Either way, he never minced his words. |
| He has consistently argued the world |
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