The nature of the relation between the West and the Muslim world raises this central questions: Does Islam really threaten the West? Likewise; does the modernized West endanger Islam and its civilization? What should be done to shift the relation between the two sides from confrontation and conflict to cooperation and peaceful co-existence? Studying the relation between the Muslim world and the West entails examining the relation between Islam and Christianity because the West – ideologically – approaches Islam from a Christian-Judaic perspective.