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• that the civilizations have much in common and overlap at many points,
• that people with different cultures can and do in fact live together in peace,
• that many conflicts erupt not at the borders of, but rather within individual civilizations.
With good reason, Huntington was among the first authors to call
attention to the political
dimension of religion. He shows that political conflicts can
be connected with religious and cultural oppositions.
However, Huntington's assertion of an immanently threatening, indeed an inescapable clash between civilizations has been criticized.
