The conflicts which were expressed in the tragedy of September 11 are beinglooked at through lenses coloured by mono-cultures - the monoculture of "auniversal western civilization" or the monoculture of an equally universalIslamic terrorism. In the Samuel Huntington paradigm, this is leading to theclash of civilizations. In the Francis Fukuyama paradigm, we are seeing the endof history -- the ultimate conquest of the west over the rest.