Sowing and reaping after 9/11

SAMUEL Huntingdon postulated in 1992 that we were facing a 'clash of civilizations' between 'the West' and Islam. 

Many contested that analysis but than worried that with 9/11 and the 'War on Terror' the prophecy was coming true. But with the killing of Osama Bin Laden the democratic Arab revolutions, can we now be more hopeful about the future? Here Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, journalist and author, is in conversation with David Pratt, foreign editor of the Sunday Herald.