Dear Reader:

There was until recently a flourishing message board with some interesting discussions and requests for information. Many thanks if you contributed or were thinking of doing so, but due to the impossibility of removing so many unwanted and negative messages about Islam almost daily, I'm afraid I had to remove the message board. Though it is sad that so many people have such a distorted picture of Islam as a 'fundamentalist'' and extremist religion, on the other hand, it has shown me the growing need for more sites and resources which guide students into seeing how rich, varied and intellectual a faith it really is, whatever the current picture.

Paul