The End of History
and the Last Man is a 1992 book by Francis Fukuyama.In the book, Fukuyama
argues that the advent of Western liberal democracy may signal the endpoint of
humanity's sociocultural evolution and the final form of human government. An
argument in favour of Fukuyama's thesis is the democratic peace theory, which
argues that mature democracies rarely or never go to war with one another. This
theory has faced criticism, with arguments largely resting on conflicting
definitions of "war" and "mature democracy"
The Clash of
Civilizations is a hypothesis that people's cultural and religious
identities will be the primary source of conflict in the post-Cold War world.
The American political scientist Samuel P. Huntington argued that future wars
would be fought not between countries, but between cultures, and that Islamic
extremism would become the biggest threat to world peace.
Akbar Ahmad
argues that western world considers Islam as an antithesis to western value.
Islam is considered barbaric regressive and archaic religion which is contrary
to western ethos of liberalisation, women emancipation, democracy and free
speech. They consider Muslim as uncivilised alien who are bent upon polluting
their political and social fabric.
On the other hand, Muslim feels that they are being cornered
and discriminated due to their religious identity which itself is negation of
Liberal values of the west. They think that west has failed to differentiate
between modern and radical Islam. The modern Islam is true face of Muslim and
radical Islam is the product of western misadventures that range from
colonisation of Muslim land, supporting dictatorship in Muslim heartland and
suppressing Muslim immigrants.
Akbar Ahmad argues that both Muslim and European are
responsible for the current stalemate. European failed to understand that
Islamic is civilization is not alien to Europe rather it is in the DNA of
European civilization. Spain, not Italy was the cradle of rebirth of European
Civilization. Fear has been mutated into hatreds
Islamic scholar failed to remove misperception on women
Deomcracy Jihad etc
Civilization is not bad but it is the education
that matters.6 million books in Cordova vs 600in Europe. One Department Produce
more research than entire middles east
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