Islamism and western naïveté

For those governments which have persuaded themselves that keeping their distance from the United States or changing their foreign policy will prevent their citizens becoming targets for terrorism, Paul Marshall sounds a wakeup call. In the meantime, Chuck Colson calls attention to the decision of the Washington Theological Consortium in the US to accept as an affiliate member the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences in Leesburg, Virginia, an institution funded by Saudi Arabia as part of an effort to disseminate the influence of Wahhabism, one of the more hardline sects of Islam. Will this new relationship help to build mutual trust between Christians and Muslims? Possibly, though there is certainly reason for scepticism.