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...]
Islam’s ‘Public Enemy #1’
National Review Online Translations of this item: Danish Portuguese French Swedish Though he is little known in the West, Coptic priest Zakaria Botros — named Islam's "Public Enemy #1" by the Arabic newspaper, al-Insan al-Jadid — has been making waves in the Islamic world. Along with fellow missionaries — mostly Muslim converts — he appears frequently on … [Read more...]
Amalek
What's in a Name? Middle East Strategy at Harvard During the eulogy of the eight slain students of the March 6 terrorist attack at Mercaz HaRav yeshiva school in West Jerusalem, highly-respected Rabbi Ya'akov Shapira made, for the average gentile, a rather elusive allusion regarding the attack: "The murderer did not want to kill these people in particular, but everyone living … [Read more...]
Our Ailing Meritocracy
Merit takes second place to gender and religion When all the political sophistry is said and done, there is no denying that the claim to fame of the Democratic Party's two superstar candidates, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, is that the one is a woman, the other black and from something of an "ambiguous" religious background (little wonder bland John Edwards stepped out, … [Read more...]