Pegida, February 2015. Sozialfotografie/flickr (some rights reserved)The current world order is deeply embedded with the severe antagonism of civilisations, which has claimed the lives of millions and facilitated the decline of myriads of empires and the triumph of others. Amongst the varied reasons, race and religion have taken the lead in bringing about historical confrontations.
Human beings have evolved from cavemen to post-modern scientists. But, what has not changed in human nature is the unabated instinct to rule, subjugate and destroy for the sake of sovereignty. Since humanity’s first example of murder— when Cain slew his own brother Abel —bloodshed on earth has not come to an halt, but has rather multiplied.
In his essay titled 'The clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order’, Samuel Huntington purports that the fundamental source of conflict in the post-cold war world will not be primarily geopolitics or economics, but culture and religion. Ziauddin Sardar claims too that ‘contemporary Islamophobia is a “re-emergence” of a historical anti-Muslim, anti-Islamic phenomenon: a continuum that stretches from before the crusades to the present day and without doubt into the future’.
