good on you Ben, as heartfelt and warm as always.. and polite :)
My point about writing to his employer.. actually.. I wrote directly to him so far.. as per the biblical principle, pending his reply, if any, then to his employer. Failing that, to his church, failing that. to his bishop :) etc..
The point I'm making by doing that, is that it is simply 'irresponsible' to have such a qualification as his, and such a position, and to so contemptably and negligently abuse truth and thereby to attempt to influence a whole community with his views.
Ben, may I know a bit about you ? "asl" etc.. work type.. ?
BOAZ <===conservative evangelical protestant (brethren assemblies), self employed, electronics, 56 married 3 kids, kilsyth.

P.S. I thoroughly recommend mirc Dal net server and chanel #christiandebate for real time on line discussion of many similar issues, including interaction with a few 'token' muslims :)

Boaz-David,

I'd rather my posts spoke for themselves, than for this forum's readers to judge the worth of what I'm saying by my asl's.

But if you email me at lethalben"at"yahoo.com (replaceing "at" with @ of course) I'll fill you in for sure.

And please let us know if you get a reply from Gary!

A need to stop demonising Islam and get to the crux of the present global crisis.

On a recent Lateline programme an American commentator gave the real reason for the shocking human relations now existing between Christianity and Islam. It is not entirely religion. He did not mention the term “blowback” but the term itself was originated by the CIA who warned that their tactics against Middle East nations, and certain Third World countries could cause international friction in the future.

The above would not surprise anyone studying International Relations. As the US commentator pointed out, most Islamic terrorism has been carried out not by poor or destitute Muslims but by intellectuasl, including university students. Such was proven in 9/11 as well as the recent London bombings, and of course, every one knows bin Laden is well-educated and belongs to well respected Saudi-Arabian families. .

A public reaction could be, unfortuntely, that people desperately fed-up with news of Islamic attacks, would say either to close down our Humanities areas, or put the curriculums under surveillance, as was done in Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia.

However, this would not get to the core of the problem, but only make it worse, because former students who had learnt in the universities about “blowback” and “payback” might also need to be quietened down with a warning.

As intimated by the American commentator - part of the answer could be for both America and Britain to get out of Middle East territory admitting they’d only been in there since WW1 mostly for oil and strategem. And if our Forum wants more evidence of American plans to overlord the globe, Muslims included, think about the pre-9/11 White House publicised New World Order as well as the Project for the New American Century (PNAC). Certainly not the way to maintain friendship between our world’s two largest religions.

George C - Bushbred