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Islam or Christianity?
The question post 911 & 7-7
2006
Omar Sharif Asif Hanif
(source: Peter G. Riddell and Peter Cotterell, Islam In Conflict, Leicester, England: IVP, 2003, chapters 10-
12, and page 193. Also a lecture by Riddell on the theme, “Muslim Views on the World” held at the
London Institute for Contemporary Christianity, and sponsored by the London Lectures Trust,
October 23, 2003)
* Sunday Telegraph, Feb. 19, 2006
Radical Islam is Growing globally:
Poll on radicalisation
by Pew International (March 2004)
• Turkey = 31%
• Morocco = 45%
• Jordan = 55%
• Pakistan = 65%
• (80 million out of 140 million!)
IMPACT SINCE 9/11
With the spiralling violence today, much of it
perpetrated by Radical Muslims, in the name
of ‘Allah’, we need to take a closer look at
what is happening within Islam….post 9/11
& now 7-7
TWO SOURCES:
2) Their Paradigm
• Radical Methodolgy!!
Why? Because we follow the same
Paradigm, and therefore can
understand them best!