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Desecration Of Quran: Time To Dig Up Reasons!

by Durdana Najam

Since Samuel P Huntington has theorised the concept of clash of civilizations in the 21st century and beyond on cultural and religious basis, first in his article and then in his book, the world seems to have grown more intolerant and insecure. Identities have always been an important area of concern in human life. The tribal setup has had a strong tendency to preserve identity by means of language, mannerism, religious symbols, etc. Every religion epitomised symbolism to build a distinction about itself among other religions. Clashes on the basis of cultural and religious biases have a primitive history. Perhaps Huntington had thought that after attaining super academic heights and relentless technological breakthroughs, human beings would dump the tribal instinct. When that instinct in its natural course unfurled simultaneously in many parts of the world, opening new wounds and bruising the old, Samuel was taken aback and a theory came about that had nothing new about it.