These include questions about the our nation's security, the relationship of Muslim
terrorists to Islam in general, the ability of the West to pursue justice in many rogue
states/nations, the growth of Islam at home and abroad, the relation of Christianity to
Islam, and what the future holds. No one is able to foresee clearly all the possible
ramifications.
fostered by Muslim extremists of the last few years portend a coming clash of
civilizations along historic religious lines between the West and the Muslim non-West.
This collision will affect world history and civilization in a destructive way.
These concerns suggest that the scope of the conflict may have eschatological
assess the "signs of the times," as Jesus warned us.
Of particular concern to Christians should be the resurgence of Islam and its
increasingly rivals Christianity for winning the hearts and minds of people around the
world. Islam is aggressively pursuing its cause in comprehensive ways. Its apologetic is
well-articulated, scholarly, attractive, and persuasive.
West; the terrorism is increasingly couched in religious terms as a war (jihad) against infidels, when before
the attack the terrorism was basically secular (as in Iraq); the terrorism finds a fertile field among the
hundreds of millions of people who live in poverty and who have nothing to lose but something to gain,
especially Muslim honor; the higher birth rates among Muslim women compared to Western women; the
history of past clashes between Islam and Christianity in the 8