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nother important topic that has been on the agenda with the

A acts of terrorism against the United States is the relation
between the Western and Islamic world. As is known, by the 90s,
some intellectuals were falsely suggesting that a struggle would take
place between the West and Islamic world in the near future. This is
the basic theme of Samuel Huntington's well-known thesis "The Clash
of Civilisations". However, this thesis rests on an imaginary scenario
generated by the exaggeration of the influence of some radical and

ignorant factions to be found in these two civilisations. Huntington's
idea of "clashes of civilisations" is a theory without any scientific,
intellectual or conscientious basis. Various civilisations have always
existed in different parts of the world throughout the history and
these civilisations interacted with each other socially and culturally,
and took part in an "exchange of civilisations." Every race, every
nation, every community has a different civilisation and every civili-