FIRST-PERSON: What are we to do about Islam?

By Mike Licona
Baptist Press

ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP)--In the spring of 2006 1,000 British Muslims were polled. The results were alarming:

-- 28 percent wanted to see Great Britain become an Islamic state

-- 68 percent held that Brits who insult Islam should be arrested & prosecuted

-- 25 percent had either never heard of the Holocaust or contended it never happened

-- 45 percent held that 9/11 was a conspiracy between the U.S. & Israel (another 35 percent said "don't know")

The objective of many Muslims is to Islamicize the world. When a person or a country stands in the way of Islam's efforts, these regard it as a "war on Islam." This does not mean all Muslims hate Christians. For over a thousand years there have been many friendships between Muslims and Christians. However, Muslims who have befriended Christians have disregarded the Koran in the process, since it prohibits such friendships (Q 5:51). So what are Christians to do? I would like to suggest three initial responses by evangelicals to Islam.

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