Showing posts with label Samuel Huntington. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Samuel Huntington. Show all posts

Thursday, January 29, 2015

Left Behind?

I'm republishing this Stratfor article as an analysis of what's going on within the Muslim world, being fully cognizant that Islam itself is its own big problem. With that said, Islam is going to be a reality that Christians need to understand and to deal with in our real world today. -- JB

From Stratfor. By Jay Ogilvy

The Charlie Hebdo attack and its aftermath in the streets and in the press tempt one to dust off Samuel Huntington's 1996 book, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. Despite the criticisms he provoked with that book and his earlier 1993 article in Foreign Affairs, recent events would seem to be proving him prescient.

Or was he?