The Challenge of Fr. Botros by Chuck Colson Breaking Point http://raymond.uhurunetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/268.mp3 Zakaria Botros is a conservative television star with a huge audience. He is even more hated by his political enemies than Rush Limbaugh and Hillary Clinton put together, if you can believe that. At least one newspaper has labeled Botros: "Public Enemy … [Read more...]
Jihadi Studies as Trivia
Middle East Strategy at Harvard A new article by Thomas Hegghammer in the Times Literary Supplement, entitled "Jihadi studies: the obstacles to understanding radical Islam and the opportunities to know it better," lives up to its title—not so much by delineating what these obstacles are, but rather by being representative of them. Regrettably, the author evokes the same old … [Read more...]
Real Talk?
The Saudi king ought to stop killing non-Muslims first National Review Online Translations of this item: French According to the Associated Press, Saudi King Abdullah, in an unprecedented move last week, "made an impassioned plea for dialogue among Muslims, Christians, and Jews" — going so far as to refer to the latter two as "our brothers." The Jerusalem … [Read more...]
The amazing Fr. Zakaria Botros
by Rod Dreher Belief Net Check out this NRO piece on Zakaria Botros, a Coptic priest who's making big waves in the Arab Muslim world with his television broadcasts on Arabic-language television. Excerpts: A third reason for Botros's success is that his polemical technique has proven irrefutable. Each of his episodes has a theme — from the pressing to the esoteric — often … [Read more...]
L’ennemi public numéro 1 de l’Islam
Le prêtre copte Zakaria Botros combat le feu par le feu Liberty Vox Translation of the original text: Islam's 'Public Enemy #1' Bien qu'il soit peu connu en Occident, le prêtre copte [url=http://www.fatherzakaria.net/]Zakaria Botros[/url], désigné " l'ennemi public numéro 1" de l'Islam par le journal arabe, al-Insan al-Jadid, fait des vagues dans le monde islamique. Avec … [Read more...]