Liliana Suárez-Navaz (2004)

We are living times of fear and anxiety about terrorists who, in the name of Islam, want to destroy icons of modernity and secular development. Arguments for a future of civilizational opposition maintained by several intellectuals around the world will surely conjure up the terrible images of the destruction that occurred on the 11th of September, 2001, in New York. Rhetorics of revenge grow at a global level, reconfigured as a new scenario of competing sacred and universal destinies. The complex dynamics of interethnic relations around the world, the new spaces of rich hybridization, and the historical experiences of peaceful interreligious convivencia --a relevant historical experience for Andalusia and a key concept in this book -- all dissolve in the new powerfully created antagonism between secularized Western Christianity and Islam.

There is an urgent need to put forward case studies where this oppositional dynamic is clearly shown as historically constructed... (1)