“The interactions between civilizations vary greatly in the extent to which they are likely to be characterized by violence. Economic competition clearly predominates between the American and European subcivilizations of the West and between both of them and Japan. On the Eurasian continent, however, the proliferation of ethnic conflict, epitomized at the extreme in ‘ethnic cleansing,’ has not been totally random. It has been most frequent and most violent between groups belonging to different civilizations. In Eurasia the great historic fault lines between civilizations are once more aflame. This is particularly true along the boundaries of the crescent-shaped Islamic bloc of nations from the bulge of Africa to central Asia. Violence also occurs between Muslims, on the one hand, and Orthodox Serbs in the Balkans, Jews in Israel, Hindus in India, Buddhists in Burma and Catholics in the Philippines. Islam has bloody borders.”
The “Bloody Borders Project” is a blogosphere creation by the writers at “Gates of Vienna”. Their inspiration for the project was the quotation above by Samuel P. Huntington, from an essay entitled “The Clash of Civilizations?”, published 1993.
“Gates of Vienna” author Baron Bodissey writes “September 11th captured our attention. Prior to that, few in the West had taken serious notice of the extent and virulence of Islamic terrorism. It is both brutal and enduring. … For decades before the Fall of 2001 Islamists terrorized their neighbors. However, the Bloody Borders Project is concerned solely with the violence since 9-11.”
At “The Bloody Borders Project” is an interactive map of all Islamic terror attacks since September 11th, 2001, showing the geography and the intensity of the violence along these “bloody borders”. Kerfuffles lives between the “bloody borders” of Grid Square #07-03, Affected Country: USA, and she remembers all too well the terrorism of each attack.
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