by A.Z. Hilali

About the author: A.Z. Hilali is a research scholar at the Department of Security Studies at the University of Hull in England.

Dr. Keith Suter’s article ‘Is Islam a Threat to International Peace and Security"’ in Contemporary Review, December 1996, is based on an interpretation of Samuel Huntington’s well-known article, ‘The Clash of Civilisations’ (Foreign Affairs, summer 1993), in which Huntington argues that Islam must inevitably clash with a western liberal civilisation bent on exporting its values and that Islam may overwhelm the West. However, Dr. Suter is not clear about the Islamic revivalism and renaissance in the post–Cold War era. He irrationally blames all Islamic groups as threats to world peace and he also confuses Muslim societies and...