European Islam: An alternative to attacking Islam
Dr. Ali Al-Kheshaiban Since the middle of the last century, there has been a state of political and military tension between Eastern and Western powers following two World Wars that largely changed the world’s political, economic and geopolitical structure. These wars gave rise to the new philosophy of “ready for war” or the so-called “cold war”. In the mid-1990s, the cold war reached its peak with the evolution of new concepts of cultural identity, especially after September 11. The world powers were involved in a new realm of intellectual and cultural convergence forcing them to rethink an issue they had neglected for a long time: cultural and intellectual identity. These thoughts came to constitute the cornerstone of “The Clash of Civilizations” of Samuel P. Huntington who said: “It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dom