André Glucksmann against the concept of a clash of civilisations

André Glucksmann criticises the notion of a clash of civilisations between Islam and the West, refuting the religious dimension of confrontations. "The return to a strict interpretation of the Koran, a pretext for disciplining a chaotic present, is a strategy used by religious and profane despots. We are not experiencing a war of civilisations. ... It is rather a question of altercations multiplying between armed men on one side and, on the other, unarmed civilians who are simply in love with freedom and peace, and are threatened by big and little chiefs who wish to appropriate, Kalachnikov in hand, work, women, power and money. Western riches have become profane stake in millenarian mobilisation and for doomsayers proclaiming their apocalyptic ideologies."

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