In den Kommentaren zu den Ausschreitungen in den muslimischen Ländern sprechen wieder viele Huntingtons „Kampf der Kulturen“ an. Ich persönlich habe dieses Buch nicht gelesen, meine aber, es geht nicht um Kulturen, sondern um Macht in zweifacher Hinsicht: Wer bestimmt? Wer befiehlt, und wie? Und wer hat recht oder sogar nur (also absolut) recht? Schon im grausamsten und längsten der Religionskriege, dem Dreissigjährigen, ging es zwar auch um Religion, aber doch viel mehr um Macht. Ausgebrochen ist dieser ja nicht wegen eines religiösen Streits (der Augsburger Religionsfrieden war ja schon ein halbes Jahrhundert früher geschlossen worden), sondern weil sich die Stände im Königreich Böhmen eine – rückblickend für uns bewundernswert moderne – „Verfassung“ gaben, die den König sozusagen entmachtete, und ihn in einer Art konstitutioneller Ständerepublik in seiner Politik, seiner Verwaltung und seinen Finanzen der Kontrolle der Stände unterworfen hätte. Die durch die Reformation angestossenen neuen Ideen einer Demokratisierung, wie sie zum Beispiel im 1603 (!!) erstmals erschienen Buch des Johannes Althusius verlangt wurde, standen gegen die traditionelle, immer zentralistischer und absolutistischer expectant power of the king, who in this case was also the emperor. Even the bloody civil war in Northern Ireland that is still not finished, has a lot to do with politics, power and social issues and really very little to with religion. Such power struggles have
- I think - two front lines: an inner and an outer. In the interior it is about values. Conservative and fundamentalist circles fear - as most of our national conservatives and fundamentalists - a value decay: The manners go to the bad, and the religion is lost, the people know no honor and no shame, and policies is secularized, individualism leads to the community and the Family destructive selfishness and hedonism, children are a burden and therefore (almost) no longer born, parents, old and respected authorities are not and so on and so forth.
this struggle against "inside" the Islamists seem more and more to gain if they do not have it already won. In this, their victory will not stand us, but their own people because of this policy, to the religious conservatism and fundamentalism smashed professional finish every form of freedom, because he - not only among Muslims - claimed to possess the absolute truth. With them is based this claim on the word of God, we know in part, but many conservatives Just what is good for the people, a country and the whole world. I link here with our Muslim "culture" because we fight this to the "internal" front maybe not strange.
Even here, many conservatives and fundamentalists back these values \u200b\u200bdecay to the loss of religion, but simply some of the developments in recent years, in the sense of "used to be the other, used to be the better". You can open any "external" front. The Muslims can do that, because those who destroyed their values: The influence of the West and of Western thought. This external enemy who is to blame, invites hatred of the for this debt. He must be destroyed. This
external enemy has also a huge economic and political power, the main enemy, even the world power. The success of Islamism and the power he gains more and more about the peoples of the Middle East based, but also a deep sense of hurt and our power, so that in the West, to be humiliated again and again. Only this feeling may explain why the Islamists were able to bring such materials with such a hatred of the streets. We humiliate these people probably just been through our wealth, then again and again by our show of force, and our support of the Israeli and the neglect of the concerns of the needs, but also the powerlessness of the Palestinians, but certainly also because of our support of political rulers, who develop their people do not and can not participate in the progress, a progress, as experience it as the time the Chinese and as us are very supportive. Probably they also hurt, because we want to "press on" in their eyes all over the world, our values \u200b\u200bas human rights and such. I do not know what they all still injured.
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