What I intend to create is a book/ebook. A small book, colourful, less than 100 pages, preferrably less than 50. Connects with kids as well as adults'

worries. The PURPOSE of this book is not to create just another book that will get lost on the [dawah table](http://www.srilankamuslims.net/wp-

content/uploads/2013/06/islamic-dawah-books.jpg). The purpose of this book is to start a new narrative.

Think of Islam now; violent, foreign and intolerant. Think of Islam after this book and effectively the related words should be peaceful, familiar and

ofcourse tolerant.

To achieve this paradigm shift, the book will argue for one that Islam has been here from the beginning (in light of God vs Man). It should touch universal

topics on altruism vs darwinism and capitalism, arguing that Islam is the definition of an altruistic society in practice, in short synonymising Islam with

the word altruism and countering that all other non-religious dogmas have a hidden agenda or not being "peaceful or altruistic". However this isn't a

political book and thus should only brief this with good evidence. A point of note here, the book doesn't aim to close the gap created by this clash of civilisations, it actually aims to exsacerbate this problem by furthering to drive a wedge between one side and the other. To do this, it will appeal to the humanistic/moral conscience of the population through their acceptance of the rich vs poor narrative to include rich (eqoistic) vs poor (altruistic). This will achieve to highlight the root of the Islamic message (peace and controlling your ego), while also clearing up the hatred against it.

All good campaigns need a good slogan (yes we can!) and correlating Islam with Peace is a good start. The title of the book will achieve this through the use of character superposition in the title "This is Islam/Peace". Or even a small hologram that will change the last word depending on the viewing angle.

The subjects covered in the book are varied and up for discussion here, however some essential ones I intend to include are (all briefly):

1. root of islam, prophet stories, prophets before that, definition of islam/peace,
2. history since then, did it conquer by sword, inventions/contributions, already had renaissance - golden era and prophet himself
3. islam today, the wars and spotlight, shariah
4. the future, does it need another renaissance? (al-sissi), what islam stands for altruism vs agenda, seeking to minimise the ego

It may follow a history, present, future sort of narrative.

Among other things it should achieve to:

Counter todays narrative and to give a new narrative and debate points Identify the special status of Islam as opposed to other religions(universal vs local/tribal) Establish the history, identity and future (place) of Islam in modern light To sympethise and empathise with the disenfranchised etc To establish Shariah as an antithetical to modern day political dogmas and argue its validity

Your contribution to this is as varied as you want it to be. You could write up articles within, you could edit other's work, publisize or just correct mistakes or spellcheck. If you need any motivation outside of your drive for change: think of Wikipedia, Kickstarter or most of you are probably using Mozilla Firefox - all crowd sourced or open sourced, so don't sell yourself short.

Your first task however, is to UNDERSTAND what I am proposing.