Posted on 04/11/2008 6:42:04 PM PDT by hanfei
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.
Botros is an unusual figure onscreen: robed, with a huge cross around his neck, he sits with both the Koran and the Bible in easy reach. Egypt’s Copts -- members of one of the oldest Christian communities in the Middle East -- have in many respects come to personify the demeaning Islamic institution of “dhimmitude” (which demands submissiveness from non-Muslims, in accordance with Koran 9:29). But the fiery Botros does not submit, and minces no words. He has famously made of Islam “ten demands,” whose radical nature he uses to highlight Islam’s own radical demands on non-Muslims.
The result? Mass conversions to Christianity -- if clandestine ones. The very public conversion of high-profile Italian journalist Magdi Allam -- who was baptized by Pope Benedict in Rome on Saturday -- is only the tip of the iceberg. Indeed, Islamic cleric Ahmad al-Qatani stated on al-Jazeera TV a while back that some six million Muslims convert to Christianity annually, many of them persuaded by Botros’s public ministry. More recently, al-Jazeera noted Life TV’s “unprecedented evangelical raid” on the Muslim world. Several factors account for the Botros phenomenon.
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Besides, the current Pope has done his part with the Regensburg address and the recent baptism of the Muslim.
Zakaria Botros is a hero in our time. Pure and simple.
Why does he say “we” (i.e. “God and I”) instead of “I”? Why do Catholics believe he’s God’s representative on Earth?
The Regensburg address was private. Like Laurence Summers’s private address, it became a public catastrophe.
Benedict converted (as far as we know) one Muslim. This man apparently converts millions regularly.
Until the Pope stops the Catholic Church from supporting Muslim invaders in Eurabia, stops complaining about secularism to the exclusion of Islam, stops kissing up to the KGB Church, and stops trying to Catholicize America through Mexicanization instead of through evangelization, I won’t respect him as much I respect this man.
Agreed!
go padre!!
Muslims can’t deal with the truth about their perverted “religion”. Neither can the dhimmis in the West, sadly.
Hope !
Great Article - Showing the light in the darkness
go papa!!
Is there some reason that dhimmis is so close to the spelling of democrats. I suspect if alphabets were aligned, both would be spelled the same.
Who gives a crap who you respect newbie?
Hahaha. We’re taking back Egypt.
How is the Church doing this? Be specific.
stops complaining about secularism to the exclusion of Islam
Secularism is the more pressing concern. It is because of secularism that Mohammadanism is invading Europe.
stops kissing up to the KGB Church
Some of the leadership might be KGB-installed, but the Orthodox faithful there surely isn't.
and stops trying to Catholicize America through Mexicanization instead of through evangelization
That is a right-wing version of 9/11 Truthers. Mexico maybe nominally Catholic, but the faith was devastated there for 70 years of the 20th century due to a radical left-wing regime there that most Americans don't know about. Many of them are joing Penecostal churches, or don't go to any church at all.
I won’t respect him as much I respect this man.
The Coptic priest may be more apparently gutsy, but he has much less at stake.
This guy is a man to pray for... May we all have such courage.
While the West slowly abandons its Christian heritage, Christianity is on the rise again where it was born; the Middle East.
The church is the first line of defense for illegals who lack food and shelter being sought by authorities. Protestant churches do it too, but the Catholic Church is a bastion of “liberalism”.
I disagree about secularism vs. Islam.
The Moscow Patriarchate is filled with Eurasianist neo-Commies, and its leadership is genuine FSB/SVR.
Look at the “Justice for Immigrants” project. This is an obvious attempt to increase the number of Catholics in America through corrupt means.
The Coptic priest has his life at stake. He should be made a saint.
No, that would be the Episcopagans, the United Church of Christ, and the Unitarians. The Catholic Church has subversives in it, including many in the clergy, who are liberals first before being Catholic.
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