ISLAM IN OUR BACKYARD
By Tony Payne
Matthias Media. 134 pages. £8.00. ISBN 1 876326 48 4
Distributed in the UK by The Good Book Company (www.thegoodbook.co.uk)
This is an interesting and highly unusual book about Islam post-September 11 by Tony Payne, a well-known Christian author and journalist from Australia.
The book is written in the form of an on-going discussion between the author and a fictitious neighbour of his (though it has clearly grown out of many real contacts with unbelievers). The neighbour is typical of many Western 'pagans' in that he is troubled by militant Islam, and unsure what attitude ordinary citizens in a Western-style democracy ought to take to Islam.
