It would be a gross oversimplification to speak, as some are doing, of a clash between civilization and barbarism. In reality, we are confronted with a widening divide over the role of religion, which runs between the West (with the US being a complicated exception) and much of the rest of the world (the most notable exception being China), but particularly the Islamic world.
像某些人那样来谈论文明与野蛮之间的冲突显然过于简单化。事实上，我们面临宗教作用的拓展性分隔，这就将西方（美国是例外令人费解）和世界其他大部分地区（最明显的例外是中国）特别是伊斯兰世界分隔开来。