The two things that get people most excited in cultural conflicts are religion and sex, specifically the way that men treat women. Both the US response to 9/11 and the recent criminal case brought against Dominique Strauss-Kahn seem to prove the point – except that neither involved a cultural conflict.
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NEW YORK – Many people still believe that the attacks of September 11, 2001, were not just acts of political terrorism, but part of a cultural war, a clash of civilizations. The two things that get people most excited in cultural conflicts are religion and sex, specifically the way that men treat women. They are of course intimately linked: religion is commonly used as a way to regulate sexual behavior and relations between the sexes.