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Previous page: Do Muslims, Jews and Christians worship the same God?
Note: In preparation for an update to our entry on Islam, we are in the process of moving the exisiting entry from its old place into our current format.
During the update of this entry, most resources on this topic will still be available here.
Christian Evangelism
Bruce Thomas, EQM -- Professional journal for the worldwide mission community, Nov. 2009
I have discovered that one of the most difficult aspects of evangelizing Muslims is getting them to appreciate their need for a savior. I have found the Islamic doctrine of God and man to be such that Muslims tend to be unaware of their sinfulness and inability to save themselves.1 As a result, convincing a Muslim to embrace Jesus as the blood sacrifice for his sins usually requires considerable time and pre-evangelistic effort.
In observing one particular culture, I have noticed a curious thing. While my Muslim friends and neighbors do not worry much about "little sins" like lying and cheating, their daily lives and religious rituals seem to revolve around something which I would consider to be even less significant, namely their ceremonial purity. The intensity of this insecurity has caused me to consider that defilement might be a basic human problem as serious to some as sin is to others.
Demographics
A personal blog. Includes links to various sources and resources.Islam vs. Free Speech
"Cases in Canada show the value of standing firm." Rondi Adamson, The Christian Science Monitor [Note], Apr. 10, 2008
, Jonah Goldberg, Real Clear Politics, Apr. 2, 2008
Theology
by Chawkat Moucarry
At the heart of the polarization between Christianity and Islam lies the divergent historical assessments of Jesus and of Muhammad. The claims of the two religions cannot both be true: they are, as we have seen, intrinsically exclusive. Such recognition never warrants hate or malice: surely both sides are obligated to tell the truth as they understand it, yet such truth-telling should be undertaken with courtesy, respect, attentive listening. When the truth claims are mutually contradictory, and the issues of such transcendental importance, faithful witness equally demands honest and respectful confrontation, frank and courteous debate.
Thomas Carlyle observed that the history of the world is really the biography of great men. And no two men have influenced our world more than Jesus and Muhammad. Nations have used their words as the foundation of their cultures and laws. Fully half of the world’s inhabitants trace the roots of their beliefs back to Muhammad’s words in the 7th century and the teachings of Jesus Christ in the 1st century. So who were these men who have changed our world, and how do they compare with one another?
"The distinctives of the Lord Jesus-Christ in the Koran." An excerpt from: The gospel of Christ Jesus according to Saint John - As reviewed by the Koran and Muslim scholars, By: Dr. Ben Malik Jamil 
by Christopher Caldwell
Its most cutting insights, rather than on Muslim immigrants’ capacity or motivations to assimilate — I’d say they turn on Europe’s will to establish more demanding standards for their integration — deal with the Europeans themselves.
Mr. Caldwell, who is an editor at The Weekly Standard in Washington and writes a weekend column for The London Financial Times, says Europe’s “writers, academics and politicians act as if it is only some quirk or accident or epiphenomenon (and never immigration itself) that has left their country with intractable problems.”
All European countries, he writes, pursue the same strategy: “elevating Muslim pressure groups to pseudo-governmental status and declaring that doing so will produce an Islam that reflects the values of Europe than vice versa.”
But because Europe was unsure of what those values are, and accepted a “neutrality of cultures,” Mr. Caldwell finds “declaring immigration a success and an enrichment became the only acceptable opinion to hold.”
As a result, he concludes, “Europe finds itself in a contest with Islam for the allegiance of its newcomers. For now, Islam is the stronger party in that contest.”
- Source: John Vinocur, Downturn Draws a Veil Over Islam, New York Times, May 18, 2009
[Hosted by the Internet Archive, so it may take a while to load] Online text of a brochure in which issues often brought up by Muslims are addressed in outline form. Includes scripture references to both the Bible and the Koran. Most helpful to those Christians who already have a working knowledge of what Muslims believe and how they defend their faith.
Issues addressed include the following subjects
The material also addresses a number of Christian objections to Islamic teachings.
What personal names for Muslim men and women mean. [MP3] Presented by Arabic Christian Magazine The Grace [Online radio] Collaborative effort between the University of Wisconsin-Madison's National Resource Centers and Wisconsin Public Radio's Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders. Include archived programs and a blog.Inside Islam: Dialogues and Debates is a new media initiative that seeks to challenge misconceptions and stereotypical perceptions about Islam and Muslims worldwide through a collaboration between UW-Madison’s nine area and international studies centers, Wisconsin Public Radio, and the public.
Islam news tracker & news archive, provided by Religion News Blog.
Census (USA)
A new census of Muslim congregations is reviving controversies over how many Muslims are in the USA, how they are counted and why it matters.
[Contra]Who we are: We are ex-Muslims. Some of us were born and raised in Islam and some of us had converted to Islam at some moment in our lives. We were taught never to question the truth of Islam and to believe in Allah and his messenger with blind faith. We were told that Allah would forgive all sins but the sin of disbelief (Quran 4:48 and 4:116). But we committed the ultimate sin of thinking and questioned the belief that was imposed on us and we came to realize that far from being a religion of truth, Islam is a hoax, it is hallucination of a sick mind and nothing but lies and deceits.
What we believe:
Some of us have embraced other religions but most of us have simply left Islam without believing in any other religion. We believe in humanity. We believe that humans do not need to follow a religion to be good. All we need to follow is the Golden Rule. All we have to do is to treat others the way we expect to be treated. This is the essence of all the goodness. All good religious teachings stem from this eternal principle. This is the ultimate guidance humanity need. This is the Golden Rule.
- Source: Apostates of Islam, front page, last accessed Aug. 7, 2008
"News and analysis on Islam in Europe and the United States"
Euro-Islam.info is an active network of researchers and scholars who conduct comparative research on Islam and Muslims in the West and disseminate key information to politicians, media, and the public.
Sponsored by GSRL Paris/CNRS France and Harvard University, the Euro-Islam research network consists of over forty researchers and hosts over 50,000 unique visitors each month. The site is recognized in political and media circles as the most reliable online reference for Islam in Europe.
[Also available in Arabic] Website for the television program 'A Muslim Journey of Hope,' "brought to you by people whose lives have been changed by the hope we have found because of the love of God and the truth about Jesus Christ." You can watch (or listen) to the testimonies online
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