But the Muslims were also suffering from extreme insecurity and humiliation, because upon engaging in introspection and observation of the global state of affairs, they were finding that perhaps their way of life might in fact be wrong, backwards, and out of sync with the progress of time. So Muslims began directing their rage at the twin pillars of current Western civilization: secularism and consumerism. And this has resulted in a “clash of civilizations,” “the perhaps irrational but surely historic reaction of an ancientrival against our Judeo-Christian heritage, our secular present, and the worldwide expansion of both.”

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