Most fault line wars occur along the Muslim-non-Muslim boundary

Evidence

These ethnic conflicts and fault line wars have not been evenly distributed among the world’s civilizations. Major fault line fighting has occurred between Serbs and Croats in the former Yugoslavia and between Buddhists and Hindus in Sri Lanka, while less violent conflicts took place between non-Muslim groups in a few other places. The overwhelming majority of fault line conflicts, however, have taken place along the boundary looping across Eurasia and Africa that separates Muslims from non-Muslims. While at the macro or global level of world politics the primary clash of civilizations is between the West and the rest, at the micro or local level it is between Islam and the others. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 705

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the book’s broader macro/micro distinction and connects to current Islamophobia debates.