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...Sauds, rebelled in 1929, objecting to foreign influences such as the introduction of radio broadcasts, forcing Ibn Saud to crush them with loyalist tribesmen. In 1979 King Khalid harshly put down a fanatical group that seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca, in a violent two-week clash that left 127 Saudi troops and 117 insurgents dead. The message of all these groups has been the same: pure Islam has been corrupted by the al Saud rule...
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Huntington, who has published a number of books on the subject, questioned whether we were witnessing a “clash of civilizations...
...enough and smart enough to address topics like international conflict. Hopefully, we?ll see a new generation of artists, challenged by history, rise to the task of writing music that captures the themes of the day. Bob Dylan did it with ?Masters of War.? The Clash did it with albums like ?Sandinista!? and ?Combat Rock.? The political-minded hip-hop metal band Rage Against the Machine was a lonely voice of relevance in the 90s. The new millennium may produce rock, rap and pop that?s equal to the times...
...American academic Samuel Huntington spoke of a coming "clash of civilizations" between Islam and the West. It seemed a simplistic and dangerous dichotomy. Today more people believe this than ever before. Those of us who are caught in the middle must do all we can to stop the rush to mutual demonization, which will only lead to unspeakable wars, destroying everything that we all hold dear...