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In Huntington's article, which he refined and expanded in his 1996 book, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, he argued that " the clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future. In the book, Huntington said that " culture and cultural identities, which at the broadest level are civilization identities, are shaping the patterns of cohesion, disintegration, and conflict in the post-Cold War world. In this Article critically three important issues regarding Huntington's the clash of civilization, have been addressed. These include conceptual weakness of his thesis. Second to critically examine the hypothesis and empirical evidences of his thesis and finally layout the immoral and unethical implications of Huntington's thesis. To conclude Huntington's civilizational identity is an archetype of such ill definition, without providing clear guidelines how to define and find civilization in real life. His hypothesis is not supported by empirical evidences. Culture is not prime source of conflict, scarce resources, economic, military and geographical proximity are also a stronger factor than culture to urges conflicts. Finally clash of civilization is infact an enemy discourse that looks for new enemy Huntington overgeneralizing divide world into a " black and white or good and evil scheme.