The rising hatred towards Islam in Europe, I believe goes to show that multiculturalism as the post-war European project is a failure, and may end up in confirming Huntingdon’s “Clash of the civilisations” as a self-fulfilling prophecy – “yes you may be different, but only different enough that you’re still [Insert European nationality here]” Universalism leads to treating the other as inferior – Whose universalism is the true universalism? Why, Western capitalism of course!

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