I am not impressed at all with this piece by Huntington, it is not an accurate portrayal of either the history of the cultural dynamics of the various cultures. True, the Muslims almost to the country move in "kinship" against any perceived NON-Muslim threats, but they also on occassion turn on each other. The West however, is has gone to the aid of Muslim countries quite often, even when in retrospect, it should have been aiding the other side of the conflict who were in some cases fighting against the same Islamic extremism that we have experienced in the US.
I think there might be a political game going on when US or Russia appear to side with Arab states, but ultimately there's no real alliance. No US-Arab axis, or whatever, is conceivable.
Europe, America, and Russia (and Israel, come to think of it) are very far from the Arab world. Very far. Journalists and 3rd-rate novelists never understand that. To them the East is still full of mystery and despite what you may have read they are all kids looking at National Geographic and saying, "Wow, cool." I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.