— Times of Israel This article uses Domingo Faustino Sarmiento’s 1845 essay Civilization and Barbarism  as a framework to analyze the contemporary conflict between Western civilization and radical Islam (jihadism). The author, Dr. Julio Levit Koldorf, posits that Islamic civilization is in its "adolescence," arguing that while it had a creative childhood, it never produced foundational democratic documents like the U.S. Constitution. He frames modern jihadism as a "regression