When I get a free moment (less often than previously) I’m trying to read up on Islam, and the roots of the present terrorism. What I am disturbed by is that the more I read up about it, the more hostile to it I am becoming. So much so that my previous notion of calling the terrorists “Them and Us” mentality. For someone who has recently started to appreciate Rene Girard’s take on Christianity, it all seems abominable.

Certainly we need to start taking the claims of Islam seriously. Good article here which expresses my present views fairly accurately.