Huntington said it himself: “To define themselves, people need an other.” And he authored the script for the War on Terror, which found that ideal, ominous other in the entire religion of Islam.

XREF: Connects to the broader "clash of civilizations" thesis and identity-formation literature in political science and sociology.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 231