Hi Jerry - thanks for the comment. It's precisely because there is often a "crusade" like mentality that we wrote the article. As someone raised in Pakistan I have no illusions. I could have chosen to write about my father being beaten up by Muslims when I was 6 years old, or  my mom and I being surrounded by a crowd of men three feet thick in a village in Pakistan. I (we) chose to not write those stories this time, but write  what we learned from the majority of our friends as we watched them work out a different faith.  It's not a matter of making it acceptable - whether we like it or not Islam is a major world religion, and there are things that are inexcusable in the Muslim world, things that horrify Muslims themselves. This article was from a perspective not often heard in the western church - a perspective that attempts to build bridges. Jesus was not afraid to engage or dialogue and this was an attempt to engage.