In this wide ranging survey of world trends, the treatment of the origins of the practice of Islam is most helpful. The writer speaks from personal experience and understanding of Muslim beliefs and teaching, having served as a young soldier in several Muslim lands, and been on active service in the war in Oman (1950's) in what were hints of the coming 'Arab Spring'The contrasting expectations between the gospel and the claims of Islam will leave the reader in no doubt that they are far from being 'sister religions'. The phenomena of Jihadism and Islamophobia are discussed to profit.
