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. He has served as an instructor in history at International College in Beirut, Lebanon, and as a lecturer in history at Hillsdale College, Michigan. Since 1988, Sullivan has held an appointment as associate for the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Michigan.

The War on Terrorism, which was a response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, should be fought only against those involved in the attacks, not against Muslim civilizations. The terrorist attack was a...