A world of clashing civilisations, however, is inevitably a world of double standards: people apply one standard to their kin countries and a different standard to the others. - Samuel P. Huntington
In a report immediately after the ouster of the democratically elected Morsi's government of Egypt by the country's military, it was learnt that USA actively supported the plan and preferred the ouster despite its status as the champion of democracy across the globe. The reasons are not farfetched. Huntington in his thesis of The Clash of civilisations, twenty years ago, presumed that in Muslim countries, democracy provides the ground for people who hate the West to take control of governments. He advised the West to, among other things, make sure it creates allies in Muslim countries with whom it can do business with. Impliedly even only at the expense of the much taunted democracy that is the hallmark of the western civilisation.
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