Huntington’s clash thesis named all of Islam, not just fundamentalism, as the West’s problem

Evidence

In 1993, eight years before those two airplanes crashed into the twin towers in New York City, Samuel P. Huntington, a Harvard professor, wrote in Foreign Policy magazine: “The fundamental problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilization whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 229

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Beydoun’s framing that the Orientalist view treats Islam wholesale; pairs with Iftikhar’s global-Islamophobia synthesis the reader is reading alongside. — connects to: Lewis and Huntington argued Islam itself, not fundamentalism, underlies the West’s problem — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 315; Huntington deemed Islam itself, not fundamentalism, the underlying problem; Huntington’s clash thesis erases power asymmetries among Muslims and fuels racism. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 241