If Christiandom was slower than Islam in marrying religious universalism with political imperialism, it was faster in shedding both notions. By the eighteenth century the West had lost its religious messianism. Apart from in the Third Reich, it had lost its imperial ambitions by the mid-twentieth century. Islam has retained its imperialist ambitions to this day.
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Karsh, E. (2008). Islamic Imperialism. In The Theory and Practice of Islamic Terrorism (pp. 59–63). Palgrave Macmillan US. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230616509_9
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