I found this website by doing research over the Internet on Islam. I have a growing concern for the safety of my family here in the United States. I come from a Christian background, I attend a Catholic Church and have Jewish ancestry. My concern is over all of the violence in the world - in the name of Religion or Politics. I have read the Koran (Quran), the Bible, the Book of Mormon, Hindu religous texts, and many other religion’s “textbooks”. My basic understanding of religion is that is essentially the same all over the world, just slanted differently across the cultures.

The continuing and escalating row over the Mohammed cartoons has pitted Muslims against the secular, largely western, post-Christian world - though no doubt fuelled by the perception of that world as Christian, and hostile to Islam (the televised burnings of the Danish flag clearly depict its design based on cross).

In the row that is going on, which could spiral dangerously out of control with Iran’s interventions, where is the Christian voice, and what should that voice be saying? Is there anything to be learned which might affect the beliefs and practice of the emergent church?