I think it's hard to talk about the Muslim world and Christian world as blocks.

In the coming decades, questions of identity, meaning cultural heritage, language, and religion will play a central role in politics.

Except under rare circumstances, I don't write responses to criticism.

Fundamentalist tendencies and movements existed, so far as I know, in all societies and civilizations.

The relations between countries in the coming decade are most likely to reflect their cultural commitments, their cultural ties and antagonism with other countries.

When you have increased migration of peoples and ethnic and religious minorities, you develop a set of rules and language the larger society can accept and the minority community can accept.

The larger society has to recognize some degree of autonomy for the minority: the right to practice their own religion and way of life and to some extent their language.