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Horse’s mouth # 3, a beauty :The movement nowadays called fundamentalism is not the only Islamic tradition. ... and we may hope that these other traditions will in time prevail. But before this issue is decided there will be a hard struggle, in which we of the West can do little or nothing. ... And in the meantime we must take great care on all sides to avoid the danger of a new era of religions wars, arising from the exacerbation of differences and the revival of ancient prejudices. (60)This is B Lewis in peroration to « The Roots of Muslim Rage », 1990, after having organized the discursive setup for exactly this language game : casting the reading of the present situation in terms of a religious war between Islam (actually made indistinguishable from « fundamentalism » in the very  course of the article) and « our Judeo-Christian heritage » (60 - somehow made to equate with securalism and democracy), in terms of war, in terms of exacerbation of difference and in terms of ancient motivations ; motivations welling from ancient = natural essential traits. (Huntington clearer still, coarser, on this particular line.)The tropology of polemics : how often it is the case that the terms for a deconstruction of the polemist’s own discourse are made readily available in the very terms they use to denounce their target. A miroir miroir et demi.