Vil Jyllands-Posten have et Samuel
Huntington-lignende "Opgør mellem civilisationerne"? Dette er hvad de
skrev i en leder 13. september 2001.
Does Jyllands-Posten want a Clash of
Civilization in the image of Samuel Huntington? This is their editorial from
September 13, 2001. The translation follows the Danish text.
Ledende artikel: Civilisationernes opgør
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Jyllands-Posten 13. september 2001,
1. sektion, side 10
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Af Redaktionen
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TERROREN mod USA synes at føre et forsinket sandhedsbevis for de
opsigtsvækkende teser, som professor Samuel P. Huntington for et par år
siden fremsatte i sin bog om "Opgøret
mellem civilisationerne". Efter Den
Kolde Krigs ophør er konfrontationen mellem forskellige politiske
systemer og ideologier afløst af en kamp mellem kulturer og religioner. I
stigende grad antager dette opgør karakter
af en konfrontation mellem Islam i sin fundamentalistiske, radikale
version og Vesten. Stadig mere tyder på, at bagmændene til attentaterne
i USA skal søges blandt islamiske fundamentalister i Mellemøsten.
Herhjemme så vel som overalt i den arabiske verden er den uhyrlige terror
blevet mødt med åbenlys jubel og hæslige glædesscener.
Disse excesser bærer vidnesbyrd om så fundamentale forskelle i
livsopfattelsen politisk, økonomisk, religiøst mellem Vestens
frihedsidealer med vægt på individets ukrænkelige rettigheder og en
middelalderligt formørket verdensanskuelse, at ingen er tjent med, at
disse forskelle til stadighed nedtones, ja helst bortforklares i
integrationens hellige navn. De, der hylder de kynikere, som iscenesatte rædslerne
i New York, har ingen krav på at blive forsøgt forstået. De angriber
demokratiet og den frie verden. De skal bekæmpes. Det er på tide, at
Vesten vågner op og erkender de trusselsbilleder, som vi står overfor.
Allerede professor Huntington pegede på, at tiden er på islams side,
fordi fødselstallet i den islamiske verden stiger så meget hurtigere end
i Vesten. Vi har ikke særlig god tid. Lige så vigtigt som det er at slå
fast, at ikke hele den islamiske verden er fundamentalistisk, og at ikke
hele den islamiske verden støtter terroren i USA, lige så vigtigt er
det, at Vesten viser sig realistisk. Vi skal tro på os selv og vore værdier.
Og vi skal navnlig ikke vige tilbage for at sige ærligt, at vi ikke agter
at give køb.
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And in English translation:
Editorial: Clash of Civilisations
Jyllands-Posten September 13, 2001, First
section, page 10.
By the editorial staff
The
terror against the
USA
seems to demonstrate the truthfulness of the sensational
thesis professor Samuel P. Huntington put forward a couple of years ago in his
book on “The Clash of Civilizations”. After the end of The cold War the
confrontation between the different political systems and ideologies have been
succeeded by a fight between different cultures and religions. To an increasing
degree this clash is assuming the character of a confrontation between Islam in
its fundamental radical version and the West. More and more it looks like the
masterminds behind the murder attacks in the US has to be found among Islamic
fundamentalists in the Middle East. Here and everywhere in the in the Arabic
world the terrible terror has been met with laud enthusiasm and hideous scenes
of joy.
These excesses attest to so fundamental differences
in the view of life politically, economically and religiously between the
Freedom ideals of the West, with its emphasis on the inviolable rights of the
individual and a middle age darkened perception of the world, that nobody
deserves that these differences all the time are toned down and even explained
away in the holy name of integration. Those that hail those cynics, that staged
the horrors in
New
York
, have
no right to be tried understood. They attack the democracy and the free world.
They have to be fought. It is time that the West wakes up and acknowledges the
threat we are confronting. Already professor
Huntington
pointed out, that time is on the side of Islam, since the numbers of
births in the Islamic world is rising a lot faster than in the west. We do not
have much time. As important as it is to state, that not the entire Muslim world
is fundamentalist, and that not all of the Islamic world supports the terror in
USA
, as important it is, that the West is showing realism. We have to
believe in ourselves and our values. And we most emphatically should not be
afraid to honestly state, that we do not want to sell out.