YOU MAY SAY

"Well, the Muslims are a special case, aren't they?
"After all, Huntington had singled them out, had he not, for special opprobrium in The Clash, for having singularly bloody borders...."

Only one, of the dark secret of civilizations, however, is that the Japanese are no more liberal, at heart, and perhaps less so, than the Muslims.

After all, the Muslims inhabited a civilization at the crossroads (graveyard) of other civilizations, from the beginning.

Japan did not.