by Antony T. Sullivan

About the author: Antony T. Sullivan has written some eighty book chapters, journal articles, and academic reviews focusing on Arab and Islamic history and relations between the West and the Muslim world. He has lectured at some seventy universities and public policy institutes in the United States and overseas. Since 1988, Sullivan has held an appointment as Associate for the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Michigan.

Islam—as a religion, culture and society—most emphatically is not an enemy of the West.

Those who argue the contrary slander not only the third and last of the three great Abrahamic revelations but make all too likely the outbreak of either a religious war pitting Christianity (and perhaps Judaism) against...