"The larger society has to recognize some degree of autonomy for the minority: the right to practice their own religion and way of life and to some extent their language." When asked directly about whether he believed his clash of civilizations theory had been duplicitously and disingenuously used by polemicists for their own myopic right-wing political agendas, Professor Huntington immediately responded: "Oh absolutely, all the time!"

QUESTION: This is Huntington's stated position on minorities — worth contrasting with how his clash of civilizations thesis is typically deployed in political discourse.

QUESTION: Which specific right-wing polemicists and how did they distort the theory?

Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Gl…, loc. 679