5 MAY 2007, Page 28

Islam’s advancing strength

Sir: I thank Matthew Parris (Another voice, 28 April) for his courteous response to my article (‘Why there will be no future Pax Americana’, 14 April). However, Mr Parris reinforces one of its main points: that to underestimate the significance and advancing strength both of Islam and Islamism is to make the same kind of misjudgment as was made by the British about the resilience and determination of the American colonists during the War of Independence.

David Selbourne

c/o Oxford and Cambridge Club, London SW1