Does Terrorism Work? A History) Like H.G. Wells’s War of the Worlds, Samuel Huntington’s 1993 prediction of a Class of Civilizations mesmerized many with its suggestion of a coming vortex of cosmic conflict. And yet, in practice, the sheer complexity of Muslim experience in the West has not been reducible to academic soundbites, however elegantly phrased. By contrast, a key strength of Islam and Security in the West is its stubborn insistence on a close examination of the actual lived experience and grassroots perspectives of ‘frontline’ communities on the Western front of the...