Conversing with Islam

Martyn Drakard | 20 October 2006

There are potholes of misunderstanding on both sides of the road to dialogue with Muslims, as this conversation with a Kenyan student makes clear.

FOCUS ON SUDAN The fanatic who bested the British Empire

Martyn Drakard | 30 September 2006 | comment 1

Muslim extremists. Suicidal fighters spreading slaughter. Is the War on Terror a rerun of Britain's campaign against the Mahdi?

FOCUS ON THE POPE’S SPEECHIslam’s eclipse of reason

Robert Reilly | 23 September 2006

Islam has had its prophets of reason, but they were suppressed during the Dark Ages

FOCUS ON THE POPE’S SPEECH A jihad on secularism

Michael Cook | 22 September 2006

Benedict has fired a warning shot across the bow of the Enlightenment Project, but its crew was asleep.

FOCUS ON THE POPE’S SPEECH How Joseph Ratzinger sees Islam

Samir Khalil Samir | 22 September 2006 | comment 1

Pope Benedict's record shows that he wants dialogue with the Islamic world - not about theology but about basic human values and freedoms.

FOCUS ON THE POPE’S SPEECH Can Christians and Muslims have true dialog?

Ignacio Ar�chaga | 21 September 2006

If the two religions can't even talk the talk, how can they walk the walk?

Islam’s empire-building tradition

Francis Phillips | 31 July 2006

The West cannot understand Islam without grasping its historic record of trying to conquer the world for Allah, argues an expert on Middle Eastern affairs.

The MercatorNet IdeaFest Burying multiculturalism

Seamus Grimes | 07 July 2006

Experience around the world shows that building societies upon post-modern tolerance instead of old-fashioned respect just doesn't work.

New Pope maintains outreach to Islam

Waleed Aly | 26 April 2006

Confounding the pessimists, the Vatican's links with Islam have not cooled down since the election of Joseph Ratzinger as Pope, says a Muslim observer.

Is Dutch tolerance stretching too far?

Angela Shanahan | 18 April 2006 | comment 1

How will the Netherlands reconcile growing permissiveness with swelling numbers of fundamentalist Muslim migrants?

SPECIAL ISSUE: ENGAGING ISLAM Africa’s religious fault line

Martyn Drakard | 18 March 2006

Two of the world's great religions are competing for followers in Kenya.

SPECIAL ISSUE: ENGAGING ISLAM A challenge to European Christians

Hartwig Bouillon | 17 March 2006

The rise of Islam in traditionally Christian Europe coincides with a rise in Germans searching for their cultural roots.

SPECIAL ISSUE: ENGAGING ISLAM Man and God in Islam

Michael Cook | 15 March 2006

How does Islam differ from Christianity in its view of man and his destiny? Theologian José Morales gives some penetrating answers.

Blasphemy, protest and freedom

Michael Cook | 11 February 2006 | comment 1

The Danish cartoon furore makes it clear that Enlightenment values will not enable the West to dialogue with Islam. But there is a way forward, as Christians have already demonstrated.

Women converts find liberation in Islam

Carolyn Moynihan | 12 January 2006 | comment 5

Thousands of western women each year are exchanging hedonism for the headscarf and fasting at Ramadan. Does Islam have something to offer women that Christianity does not?

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