The amazing Fr. Zakaria Botros

Many Western critics fail to appreciate that, to disempower radical Islam, something theocentric and spiritually satisfying — not secularism, democracy, capitalism, materialism, feminism, etc. — must be offered in its place.

How true. I only wish I had the time to spend learning enough about Islam to engage in such conversations with authority. An apologetics book an acquaintance wrote, upon looking up all the Koran, etc., quotes in context, did not make as strong a case for Christianity (versus Islam) as I had hoped, so I can't use his book.

God bless this priest's efforts.

You hear in various circles reports about Jesus appearing to Muslims in increasing numbers, leading to their conversions, but my experience with similar tales of dramatic Charismatic events has been that many of them turn out to be something less than originally reported when one tries to check out the facts, if they can even be checked out.

Very interesting article in the NRO -- thanks for the link.

Unfortunately, the West is fragmented within by the counter-culture, which stretches back to the secular forces of the 18th Century. The idea of Christianity as a liberating institution and our defining civilizational phenomenon has been replaced by the absurd notion that we're all committed to secularism, liberalism, and humanism. We're not. That said, as believers, we should respect belief in the sense that it is for most something that one is born into, for most it means a comforting sense of the eternal and divine justice in the next life, and, for most, ordinary human sentiment and ordinary human worldliness saves us and them from the harshness and cruelty of Islam properly and completely observed. Our respect for belief, however, need not lead to the Bush-McCain mealy-mouthed wishful thinking that all religion is good religion, but nor should it lead to contempt for religion in general. This is why these mocking cartoons are not a sensible line of attack, even though they should be legal; the cartoonists presume that religion, even incorrect religion, is a thing to be mocked. But the cartoonist would just as soon mock Christianity, as our "avant garde" artistes have done for a century. He has no sense of piety, and so long as we think our impiety--a recent, largely foreign import from alienated minorities like Lenny Bruce and Andrea Dworkin--defines our civilization, we ourselves are doomed because we won't have the necessary values to sustain a civilization. As Christians, though, we can build on the faith of Muslims by drawing them back to the Christianity of our common ancestors. We can also expose the revolting demands of Islam, its internal contradictions, its distant God, and its failed success as a formula for earthly power and happiness. And we can do this as conservatives by having the courage of our convictions and not pretending, wrongly in my view, that "separation of Church and State" defines our time or that the Medieval Era was identical to the present state of degradation in the Islamic World. Christianity is true and all alternatives are a heresy, whether Islam, Buddhism, New Age, or Judaism after Jesus Ressurection. This cannot be forgotten.

I've got to think that Fr. Zakaria's success as an evangelist comes partly from being in a Christian tradition that is not superficial and is not identified with the decadence of the West.

May the Holy Archangel Michael guard and protect the confessor Fr. Butros, his flock and especially his converts.

We need men like this in the West. The spectacle of the Vatican waffling over the Allam baptism is sickening.

I thank our Lord Jesus praise be his holy name for this man. How often I have prayed for the Muslims as they are God's children too. How often I have wondered what our Lord would do. May our Lord bless this saint for reaching a multitude that would surley would be lost eternally.

Thank you Jesus.

I am from a muslim background.I quited Islam in 1994.Now I beleive in God but without any of the current religions.I consider father Zakaria Botros
as a real genius . I regularly watch his TV porograms concerning Islam .
This religion is extremely dangerous . Father Zakaria is doing a great job by denoucing it. I hope that his work will help the brainwashed and dangerously hypnotized muslims to wake up .
I say thank you to father Zakaria and to all the people that are fighting against this awful disease

unfortunately the web site of father zakaria now is blocked from the internest in Saudi Emyrate and egypt??!! since last week