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76. What Motivates Suicide Bombers?

Terrorism as “lashing out”
In one section of a popular book on globalization, The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman explores the impact of globalization on the Arab-Muslim world and how this relates to the rise of Muslim based terrorism.
[Arab-Muslim] youth, particularly those living in Europe, can and do look around and see that the Arab-Muslim world, [...]

29. How are we to think about Allah in Islam?

Religions do not bring people to God
H. Kraemer in his influential book, The Christian message in a Non-Christian World, builds a strong case for the inability of religions, as human constructs, to bring people to God.  The revelation of God in Christ is solely a redeeming act of God, and not aided [...]

28. Is Allah God?

A recent book review in the Evangelical Baptist (March / April 2005, p. 20) on the book Ishmael: My brother – A Christian Introduction to Islam, contained the provocative statement, “from a biblical vantage point, Allah does not exist.” Such a claim is based on the reality that Allah is not [...]

27. Inappropriate Criticisms of Islam

A recent book review  in the Evangelical Baptist (March / April 2005, p. 20) on the book Ishmael: My brother – A Christian Introduction to Islam demonstrated an unfortunate attitude towards Muslims and an apparent misunderstanding of Islamic theology. In this and the following two articles I would like to present [...]