The New Media Journal | West 'Warned' that Islam Insults Risk 'Civilization Clash': "In speeches to the UN General Assembly, leaders said that 'Islamophobia' was causing a growing Muslim-West divide and one top Arab minister put the international community on guard against a 'civilization clash'.
A threat to burn the Koran by a fringe US church, controversy over a proposed mosque near the scene of the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and assaults on Islamic symbols in European countries have been a major talking point for Muslim nations.
Normally strong allies of the West have spoken out at the UN against the growing religious tensions in the past fortnight.
Many were embarrassed by comments by Iran's President Mahmud Ahmadinejad linking the US government to 9/11, diplomats said.
But Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, the emir of Qatar, who has launched Western-backed diplomatic initiatives to settle wars ranging from Sudan to the Israel-Palestinian conflict, condemned attempts to link Islam with terrorism. He partly blamed the US 'War on Terror' declared after September 11."
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