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Many Westerners are answering these difficult questions in the affirmative. While Islamic radicals are the clear perpetrators of recent terrorist attacks (as well as many foiled attempts), some in the West are readily identifying Islamic tradition in general as the root cause of the current conflict, and, whether through banal discrimination upon Muslim immigrants in the dar al-harb or military and diplomatic pressure against the dar al-Islam, Western efforts to counter these real or imagined threats have begun.

S. ” 38 ISLAM, THE WEST, AND TOLERANCE Conceiving Coexistence: A Strategy of Tolerance A collision is occurring on many levels between Islam and the West. This, however, does not mean that cross-cultural conflict is unavoidable or that coexistence is unattainable. Coexistence has and can again occur between these two world cultures. ”93 In spite of the universal aspirations of both Western and Islamic civilizations, history and current experience indicate that, in reality, the future of our world does depend on the pragmatic ability of Western and Islamic civilizations to live peacefully together—that is, coexist.

This explains why many Muslims today “see Westerners as Christians and cannot even understand the category of secularism and the fact that many Westerners are . . ”87 For some, the conflict is still between Islam and Christendom— one of crusade and jihad. Muslims are not alone, as many within Western culture also perceive religion as the primary difference and danger of the Other. 88 Adding complexity to this cross-cultural collision, “mental constructions,” states Arkoun, place the conflict not only between two civilizations, but between two opposing worldviews: Islam” and “the West” have ceased to refer to their objective contents, whether religious, cultural, intellectual, or historical; from now on they function as powerful conglomerates of images, or prejudices, or projections, which call for two grids of mutual perception, two systems for legitimating all enterprises, exclusion, and combat on both sides.

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