Edward Said, "The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations" 2

This is part two of Edward Said's lecture on Samuel Huntington's essay and book on the "Clash of Civilizations," at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1996).

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[chiomauba]

RIP Professor Said.

[FartheadOgre]

It's unfortunate that probably less than 1% of Americans will have this information. They will blindly be lead into believing this demonization of Islam as an infallible truth and will continue to be slaughtered by the Zionist business interests controlling their universities, media and politics.

[maysoonat]

lol @rerevisionist..where did you get yr info from....let me guess.. 1001 arabian nights?

[mikewtp]

@rerevisionist Okay I will accept your knowledgeable position on history. Europe invented ships. K thanks!

[rerevisionist]

@mikewtp - No. Europe had to invent ships, navigation, books, and a thousand things. Muslims simply invaded and have been uncreative in every way. If there had been nothing to parasitise they would have got nowhere.

[mikewtp]

@rerevisionist Doesn't this simply imply that Muslims are even more so historically paralleled by European imperialist powers? You take the examples you've laid out, swap a few names, and BAM! you have the European conquest of the Americas. I suppose almost no one is without blood on their hands.

[WeToldYouSo1]

Less than half of the people also listened to part 2. :-(

[rerevisionist]

Muslims were "great discoverers of other civilisations before Europeans" - if you consider Muslims invading north Africa, castating black males and using them as slaves, as 'exploration', and of invading the north African shores and Spain- already discovered by Europeans! - and being unable to invade the Khazar lands, and also taking over pre-existing civilizations such as Baghdad - this statement is 100% bullshit

[cirosuperiore]

@exclusivefresh may i suggest books by rodney stark to start.

[cirosuperiore]

don't give me this nonsense about islamic civilization being superior to the West. that's the biggest crock of shit anyone can believe.

arab civ contributed practically nothing to progress, and all the bullshit about the mathematics and philosophy came from the people islam conquered not from islam itself, and certainly not from the arabs, god forbid.

[Jobided15]

@ForgotMyName3 my thoughts exactly. well put.

[Jobided15]

I kind of want to thank Huntington for his thesis, just because it is so demonstatably easy to dismantle. It's like the guy voluntarily made himself a straw-man.