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The truth is that ISIS is the result of a clash within Islam, not between Islam and the West.
Now the political clash between the two men – both playing the Sinhalese nationalist card while wooing the Tamil minority – has overshadowed the serious economic and political challenges confronting Sri Lanka.
Biology's Clash of CivilizationsLast summer, at a meeting outside Aspen, Colorado, several dozen physicists gathered to celebrate what the journal Nature described as the "growing feeling that their discipline's mindset will be crucial to reaping the harvest of biology's post-genomic era."
According to Donald Trump Thought, it doesn’t matter if that decision intensifies the Sunni-Shia clash in the Middle East.
Argentina’s decision in March to drastically increase the tax on agricultural exports provoked a widespread clash with rural producers, leading to a novel and complex social polarization while generating a political crisis that is still ongoing.
As the UN debate showed, what is at stake is a clash of irreconcilable national narratives.
China’s clash with Google and US protests at cyber attacks on American targets remind the outside world, as well as America’s media and political elites, of the difference in values between the two countries.
This clash of perceptions has caught the world’s policy experts and analysts off guard.
What is odd about Miller, among other things, is the seeming clash between his views on immigrants, refugees, and minorities and his personal background.
With the centenary of the October Revolution this year, the clash will move to the center of public life.
But such efforts cannot obscure the clash between these two histories, reflected perhaps most clearly in the divide between conservatives and liberals on condemning Stalinist repression.
This clash between the UN’s secular human-rights standards and Muslim religious doctrine mirrors the broader conflict between Islam and modernity – a conflict that has left some citizens of Muslim countries, including women and non-Muslims, highly vulnerable.
The potential future clash between larger fiscal deficits and a low household saving rate could have powerful negative effects on both Japan and the global economy.
Concerned about sparking an ethnic clash, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has proclaimed a ban on open discussion of these issues, threatening to arrest Internet news providers and activists if they continue to fan such debates.
So long as these ideas clash, violence will lurk.
The US, preoccupied with the supposed specter of a "clash of civilizations" between Islam and the West, saw the AKP's modern, westernized face as an opportunity and urged the EU to admit Turkey.
While this fourth phase of the relationship is not a cold war, owing to the high degree of interdependence, it is much more than a typical trade dispute like, say, America’s recent clash with Canada over access to that country’s dairy market.
Shame!”Vittorio Zucconi, writing in La Repubblica, adopted a less accusatorial tone: “In the end, it was the trial of a different culture, a clash of cultures more than a legal case,” Zucconi argued.
It is as if the clash between closed-minded chauvinism and open-hearted humanism had drowned out common sense.
US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have been exchanging incendiary rhetoric, causing many to fear a war on the Korean Peninsula – and perhaps a nuclear clash.
The role of a university is to promote the clash of ideas, to test the results of research with other scholars, and to impart new knowledge to students.
Second, and more importantly, the new policy reflects mounting fears of a clash over control of the South and East China Seas, as well as a Sino-American showdown over the Taiwan Strait.
Its ultimate ambition is to provoke a clash of civilizations between the West and the Muslim world.
But the best way to prevent this is to create an environment in which opposing views can clash freely, enabling truth ultimately to triumph.
The West thinks that this anger is a sign of some clash of civilizations: “us” against “them,” which implies that only one side can win.
They clash not only with the West, but with the golden age of Islam, when Muslim astronomers, mathematicians, physicians, philosophers, and poets flourished.
To avoid an intergenerational clash, rich countries’ citizens should alter their social contract by increasing the influence of young people in society.
The war on terrorism is not a clash of civilizations - Islam versus the West - but a civil war within Islamic civilization between extremists who use violence to enforce their vision and a moderate majority who want things like jobs, education, health care, and dignity as they pursue their faith.
The current conflict between Russia and the West – centered on the crisis in Ukraine – is, at its core, a clash of values.
Although the author of "The Clash of Civilizations" claims he wants better understanding between civilizations, he fans the flames he pretends to want to put out by preaching that conflict stems not from the barrel of a gun but from the pulpit of a creed.
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