The FP magazines (Foreign Policy) for this month made a compelling case that the real clash of civilizations that could occur and one can argue is occurring right now is NOT over religion as originally laid out in when the idea had its inception but that the real point of contention in the dispute between the Ummah and the West is over sex and the treatment of women. You woman happy a bunch of (mostly) men will be dieing for your rights?
The True Clash of Civilizations
Samuel Huntington was only half right. The cultural fault line dividing the Western and Muslim worlds is not about democracy but sex. According to a new survey, Muslims and Westerners are still worlds apart on gender equality, divorce, abortion, and gay rights—which may bode ill for democracy’s future in the Middle East. By Ronald Inglehart and Pippa Norris