Welcome to my blog. My name is Warren Larson. I am the director of the Zwemer Center for Muslim Studies and a faculty member of Columbia International University Seminary and School of Missions. I teach in the area of Islamic Studies. I lived and worked among Muslims in Pakistan for twenty-three years (1968-1991). While church planting was the main assignment, I also operated a reading room in order to foster better understanding between Muslims and Christians, as administrator of a Bible Correspondence School, and as Department Superintendent of Christar (formerly International Missions, Inc.). My book on religious extremism in Pakistan and its effect on Christian missions was chosen as one the fifteen most significant books on missiology in 1998. Due to my expertise in this area, I have been quoted in both Christian and secular publications, and am regularly invited to speak and teach in various capacities around the world. My wife and I live Columbia, South Carolina.
Circumpolar (muslimministry.blogspot.com) will be following your blog. Looking forward to learning from you and reading your insights!
Welcome to the blogosphere! May God richly bless this ministry!
That was a good question. I was referring to Warrant for Terror: Fatwas of Radical Islam and the Duty to Jihad: by Shmuel Bar. The author begins by showing how fatwas (rulings by legal Islamic scholars) in the not-too-distant past have promoted violence (p. xiii): In 1989, Imam Khomeini issued a fatwa to kill Salman Rushdie for the Satanic Verses. In 1993, Sheikh Omar ‘Abd al-Rahman from Egypt was sentenced for a religious justification to attack the World Trade Center. In 1998, bin Laden issued a “holy” jihad to kill Americans and Jews. Ever since, fatwas have been on the rise, and by their own admission, terrorists are taking them seriously. Then, the author mentions that twenty-eight eminent scholars in Cairo stated that “killing large numbers of Israeli citizens” by Palestinian suicide bombers was the “noblest act of jihad” (52). I may say more about this book later.
your work is impressive in Pakistan, God bless you. http://www.puranpediapak.com
This website is being developed for basic information about Christians in Pakistan.