A Clash of Civilizations

Middle East scholar Bernard Lewis, from his article "The Roots of Muslim Rage" in The Atlantic  (September, 1990):

It should by now be clear that we are facing a mood and a movement far transcending the level of issues and policies and the governments that pursue them. This is no less than a clash of civilizations—the perhaps irrational but surely historic reaction of an ancient rival against our Judeo-Christian heritage, our secular present, and the worldwide expansion of both.