India too Benefit from Clash of Civilizations?

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THIS IS PART OF AN ARTICLE TITLED 'IT IS A CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS.

"Where will the Clash of Civilizations leave India? Huntington asserts

that "the great beneficiaries of the war of civilizations are those

civilizations which abstained from it. With the West, Russia, China

and Japan devastated to varying degrees, the way is open to India if

it escapes such devastation even though it was a participant, to

attempt to reshape the world along Hindu lines".

 

Huntington quotes another authority, Carroll Quigley, author of The

Evolution of Civilizations; An introduction to Historical Analysis as

saying: "Western civilization did not exist about AD 500; it did

exist in full flower about AD 1500 and it will surely pass out of

existence at some time in the future, perhaps before AD 2500".

According to Quigley, new civilizations in China and India, replacing

those destroyed in the West will then move into their stages of

expansion and threaten both western and Orthodox civilizations. This

would imply that as far as possible, India must stay out of the

civilizational conflicts between Islam and the West (which is a

synonym for Christianity) and let them fight it out. India would be

wise to stay aloof and watch Islam and the West slug it out.

 

In the clash of civilizations, according to Huntington, "Europe and

America will hang together or hang separately". That will explain, at

least partially, why Britain and the European Union are lending

support to the United States, now. They are hoodwinking the rest of

the world by saying that what they are planning to do is not to fight

Islam or even Afghanistan, but just terrorism. On the surface that

may well be. But deep down they know that this is a fight not just

against Osama bin Laden or terrorism but against what Islam stands

for."