SHIREEN T. HUNTER is Director of the Islam Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Her areas of expertise include the Middle East--especially the Persian Gulf region--and Islam--particularly in Russia, Europe, and the United States. She is the author of The Future of Islam and the West: Clash of Civilizations or Peaceful Coexistence? (CSIS/Praeger, 1998) and editor of Islam: Europe's Second Religion (Praeger, 2002).