Witness

Alright, I repent already.

My Google alert "Christian community" just brought me this story from Malaysia Today about a Muslim reformer who is advocating the break-down of the historic distinction between "Dar al Islam" (the House of Islam) and the Dar al Harb (the House of War)"the idea that the world consists of an ordered Muslim culture and beyond it nothing but chaos and destruction."

This man's turning point?

A turning point came when he lived in Britain in the early 1990s. During the first Gulf War, he found a group of elderly women in a small provincial church praying during a night vigil 'for the people of Iraq.'

"Here was an example. Here were Christians in England praying for Iraqis who were being killed; people whose idea of Christian charity did not stop at the Christian community. For a while I felt a sense of shame because never had I been to a mosque where I saw Muslims praying for Christians, Hindus or Buddhists. We show charity, love and sympathy but only for fellow Muslims."