Like Lewis, Huntington invokes a number of classic Orientalist themes. He assumes that the West constitutes a distinct and superior civilization. He defines non-Western peoples mostly in religious or ethnic terms (Confucian instead of Chinese, Islamic instead of Egyptian, and so on). He promotes the imperial interests of the West at the expense of Arab and Muslim regions. And he characterizes Islam as violent and inherently prone to aggression. On this last point, his observation that “Islam has bloody borders” is a not-so-subtle suggestion that Muslims are responsible for all of the conflicts in which they find themselves, including clashes with Western powers.

Builds on: "Huntington claims Islam's bloody borders fuel civilizational conflict"

Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Intro…, loc. 226