After the conclusion of the Cold War, cultural and religious identities will be a major source of conflict between the nations, and future conflicts will be fought on the basis of civilization, as Samuel P. Huntington emphasised in The Clash of Civilizations. Since then, religion has developed into a significant component of the state’s sociocultural character and has evolved into a key political factor in both intrastate and interstate disputes. A strong, majoritarian, religiously motivated nationalist movement with serious political, economic, and security ramifications for the whole world has been foreshadowed by the new blending of politics and religion. Similar...