The Solution to Kashmir and Palestine
English book, p. 68
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Dinner that night was organised at Burgenstoc Hotel, located on top of a mountain. Jakob von Uexkull, a senior journalist in Stockholm, was among the people I met. I had a long and detailed conversation with him. He remarked that the case of modern Western man was a case of search for meaning. He opined that modern Western man had lost faith in materialistic civilisation and was searching for something else, but he had not been able to obtain it so far. During our conversation, a reference was made to American author Samuel Huntington’s book, The Clash of Civilisations and the Remaking of World Order. I stated that the book had wrongly represented Islam. The book’s author had made Muslim communal efforts synonymous with Islamic jihad, although such efforts had nothing to do with Islam. After that, I introduced Mr. Uexkull to some of the authentic teachings of Islam. Another person I met was a German called Alfredo Sfeir Younis, who was then living in Geneva. He seemed a very erudite man. I had a detailed conversation with him about Islam. To begin with, I asked him several questions regarding his field. Then, he said that I was only asking him questions but not saying anything about myself. That is how the topic of our topic turned to Islam. Mr. Younis said that he had read an English

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