Hot metal; After September 11th.('Two Hours That Shook the World: September 11, 2001: Causes and Consequences')(Review)
Economist (US), The, December, 2001
THERE is still no general agreement about the significance of September 11th, even among wholehearted supporters of armed action against the perpetrators. Some people have been quick to see in the atrocity proof that Islam and the West are condemned to fight each other in a clash of civilisations that began before the crusades and is now merely entering a ferocious new phase.
Others, including Fred Halliday, professor of international relations at the London School of Economics, reject this Huntingtonian view. Most Muslims, he stresses in this book, are not even Islamists, let alone supporters--far less practitioners--of terror. And not all terrorists are Islamists: indeed, the expression was coined during the French Revolution to describe a means of deploying...
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