As far as ideology or political beliefs are concerned, countries are very different.
Samuel P. HuntingtonObviously there are divisions within the West and divisions within Islam - there are different sects, different communities, different countries. So neither one is homogenous at all. But they do have things in common.
Samuel P. HuntingtonFundamentalist tendencies and movements existed, so far as I know, in all societies and civilizations.
Samuel P. Huntington