Islam’s ‘Public Enemy #1’

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 the Arabic channel al-Hayat (i.e., “Life TV”). There, he addresses controversial topics of theological significance — free from the censorship imposed by Islamic authorities or self-imposed through fear of the zealous mobs who fulminated against the infamous cartoons of Mohammed. Botros’s excurses on little-known but embarrassing aspects of Islamic law and tradition have become a thorn in the side of Islamic leaders throughout the Middle East.

Very interesting! I think the conversion of Magdi Cristiano Allam may be just the tip of the iceberg. Islam does not stand up to reason, and sharia really is indefensible; it’s wonderful that this priest is able to show them this and offer them the one alternative.

Father Zakaria

God bless this holy man!!! Here is a link to his web site.

Father Zakaria

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Great story. I’ve run across his videos before on YouTube and he is in my prayers. We should all pray for this man. I only wish that there would be more like him (especially in the Middle East) who would preach publicly on the false allegations made against Christianity by Muslims.

I can’t help but reason that if more Muslims realized that (with few exceptions) Christianity is their true heritage and realized that their ancestors were in most instances only converted to Islam “by the sword” - not by true faith and reason - they would be more open to considering the claims of the Church. It would be helpful if there were men like this one in many different Middle Eastern countries (for despite the gilded and somewhat misleading claims of “pan-Arabism”, there are many cultural differences throughout the Muslim world which truly splinter the religion in more ways than some Muslims let on).

This gentleman is doing a fine job preaching to the former Copts in Egypt, but it’d be great if we had a Maronite or Melkite doing the same in Lebanon, a Syrian Orthodox priest doing this in Syria, and so forth and so on. Nonetheless, may God bless the holy efforts of this good and faithful priest!

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