This paper, as a convergence attempt of Humanities and Social Studies, aims to suggest one example of
settling an international conflict by applying Ricketts’s theory of breaking through to the disturbance and
the strife occurring in the Southeast-Asian Muslim society after the 9/11 attacks in the U.S.A. in 2001. For
this purpose, the researchers firstly compare and analyze the internal and external situations of conflict that
the Muslims had in the main Islam countries of Indonesia and Malaysia, including the relatively less
Muslim populated countries such as Singapore, the Philippines, and Thailand. Next, the theory of
breaking-through that a biologist Ricketts claims is introduced and applied to the above. After the analysis,
it is revealed that, in Indonesia, the Jihad Movement of the Middle-east affected some radical forces in the
name of Islam conservatism, and, in Malaysia, PAS, a progressive political party, is ceaselessly at feud
with UMNO, a mainstream group, pursuing the solidarity of the country. Also, considering that this
situation might cause the crisis leading to terrorism, the researchers insist that Ricketts’s relativistic holism
is capable of acting as a useful solution to this problem.