(Question about things) Short comment: Is the root of the "September 11" incident the "clash of civilizations"?

  China News Service, Beijing, September 11th, title: Is the root of the "September 11" incident the "clash of civilizations"?

  China News Agency reporter Bo Wenwen

  On September 11, 2001, the towering twin towers of the New York World Trade Center collapsed one after another under the billowing smoke. Fear and chaos swept across the United States and shocked the world like huge waves of dust.

On September 11, 2001, a plane hijacked by terrorists crashed into the World Trade Center building

On September 11, 2001, the South Tower of the World Trade Center that was hit collapsed

  This scene seems to have been predicted by the famous American political scholar Samuel Huntington.

In 1993, Huntington first published "Clash of Civilizations?" in "Diplomacy" magazine.

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In his subsequent book "The Conflict of Civilization and the Reconstruction of the World Order", Huntington believes that in the post-Cold War world, the basic source of various conflicts is no longer the difference in ideology or economic form. It will be civilization that dominates the world. Conflicts, especially the conflict between Western civilization and Islamic civilization.

  The "Clash of Civilizations" once triggered an upsurge of debate in the international academic community.

Some people even took the "September 11" incident as strong evidence for this theory, exclaiming that the era of civilizational clashes has arrived, and even the mainstream media in the United States adopted this perspective in unison.

Data map: September 10, local time, New York, the United States, the New York "Commemorative Beam of Light" lights up to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the "9.11" incident

  Undoubtedly, the "September 11" incident rewritten American history, and the exploration of its root causes is a timeless subject.

Today, 20 years later, especially in the context of the US military hastily ending the 20-year war in Afghanistan, when people re-examine that period of history, is it accurate enough to use "clash of civilizations" as an explanation of the "September 11" incident?

  Some observers pointed out that the interpretation of the "clash of civilizations" is too conceptual. While paying attention to the spiritual and ideological factors of the incident, it ignores the material motivations of international politics.

Under the grand narrative of "clash of civilizations", it is the expansion policy of Western countries and the pursuit of their own interests that have lasted for hundreds of years.

Some scholars believe that what the "clash of civilizations theory" conceals is actually hegemonism.

  It is undeniable that there is a "conflict" under the religious core differences between the United States and the Islamic world, but we also need to see the unipolar hegemonic intentions and power politics of the United States, the power imbalance of international politics in the post-Cold War era, the political roots of terrorism, and the United States. The mistakes of the Middle East policy, the existence of irrational international political and economic order, etc., the superimposition of these many factors caused tragedy to occur.

On August 31, local time, after all U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan, the Afghan Taliban Badri Special Forces arrived at the Afghan airport

  Looking back on the US Middle East policy before and after the "September 11" incident, it is not difficult to find that after the Cold War, the hegemonic color of the US Middle East policy has become more and more intense.

From the conception of the “New Middle East Order” of the Bush administration in 1991, to the Clinton administration’s “promoting peace talks in the West and containing Iran in the east” in 1993, to the “Greater Middle East Democracy Transformation Program” launched during the Bush administration, the United States has always emphasized Safeguard its hegemony and interests, suppress countries and forces that do not obey the United States, and require Middle Eastern countries to accept American democracy, free values ​​and systems.

  The United States also launched the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in the name of "anti-terrorism", openly intervened in the internal affairs of other countries, and declared that it would reform them with the values ​​of "democracy" and "freedom" to eradicate the breeding ground of terrorism, but the result was nowhere." "Democratic model", leaving only endless wars, infinite poverty and countless refugees.

All the above, why can we see the respect and understanding of Western civilization for Islamic civilization?

Data map: After all U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan, the Afghan Taliban Badri Special Forces stood guard at Kabul Airport

  Civilization has no distinction between superiority and inferiority, only difference between characteristics and regions.

Civilization differences should not become the source of conflicts in the world, but should become the driving force for the progress of human civilization.

Facts have also proved that no civilization can ultimately impose its own model on another civilization.

  The world today is undergoing major changes unseen in a century.

History tells people that the key to surmounting the so-called "clash of civilizations" trap lies in mutual respect for the development paths and models independently chosen by the peoples of all countries, so that the benign interaction and integration between the diversity of the world and the diversity of civilizations becomes inexhaustible for the progress of human society. power.

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