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I would have to disagree, to define a soul as related to a "god" or "God" is an interesting interpretation, could the soul not be relevant to each human individually and our soul as a nation simply the sum and total of all souls within our lands?
Western Culture has been oppressive, we have been violent and we have been brutal, however we now in general are very accepting, to quote a slightly famous book "Do unto others as you would have done unto you", paraphrased by a friendly Scot to: "If you kick them in the balls they will probably kick you in yours". While things like the Iraq war may seem to be purely economically based removing a dictator who did oppress his people, who did have a massive death count and who potentially did have not only weapons of mass destruction but the will to use them is perhaps a necessary evil. However look at Britain, America, Germany etc, we all have relatively large "immigrant" populations, we are not one colour, one faith, one people yet we generally co-exist in the same space without attempting to kill each other. Shared living brings with it a requirement of trust, acceptance and diversity.
Islam and Western culture do not need to clash, we could happily sit on each side of our borders and mutually do nothing, however one side in this is not willing, they take the liberties granted by the Western Culture as an affront to them, look at the Danish Cartoons, massive outcry, when a similar cartoon is suggested about the Holocaust the Jewish people jump on board and make their own, the Christian nations regularly poke fun and point out inconsistancies in their own faith. To quote a man: "We must show them that we can poke fun at ourselves, to do otherwise is to throw stones in a glass house".
Similarly look at Britain, a few outspoken Islamic Clerics have said that they should only obey British law as long as it follows Sharia law. Or in other words the will of a few should overrule the will of the many, and on that I leave you.
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