Featuring Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo, International Director, The Barnabas Fund
Video courtesy of the Family Research Council, FRC.org
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Responding to Islam: Lessons from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Karl Barth, and Bishop George Bell
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Speaking Out for Persecuted Christians
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In his 1986 collection of essays The Drowned and the Saved, Italian chemist and writer Primo Levi described a recurring nightmare that he experienced after his liberation from Auschwitz. In the dream, Levi returns from the Second World War concentration camp and recounts its full horror to his remaining family and friends, only to see them turn away disbelieving or – worse still – uninterested. (more…)
Cry Aloud
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On 16 October 2011 an Egyptian Christian schoolboy was beaten to death by some of his Muslim classmates, apparently at the instigation of a Muslim teacher at his school in Mallawi, Minya province. Like most Egyptian Christians, Ayman Nabil Labib (17) had a cross tattooed on his wrist. On that day, the teacher had asked him to cover it up, but Ayman instead revealed that he wore another cross around his neck under his shirt. The infuriated teacher is reported to have incited the other boys to attack their fellow student. By the time an ambulance arrived, Ayman was dead. (more…)
Please pray for House of Lords debate on Christians in Middle East
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Urgent prayer request from Dr Patrick Sookhdeo, International Director of Barnabas Fund:
On Friday (9 December), the UK House of Lords is holding an important and timely debate, led by the Archbishop of Canterbury, about the situation of Christians in the Middle East.
Barnabas Fund has been asked to produce a briefing paper (see below) for this debate, and I am now urgently seeking your prayers that the Lords will recognise the grave danger that Christian minorities are facing as a result of the “Arab Spring”. Please pray also that the Lords will exert their influence on our government so that it will press for the protection of Christians and other vulnerable groups in the region. (more…)
Patrick Sookhdeo speaks on Islam Channel against racism and neo-Nazism
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Barnabas Fund’s International Director Dr Patrick Sookhdeo spoke on the Islam Channel against racism and neo-Nazism in a discussion about a new study that highlights growing online support for far right groups in Europe.
He was one of the guests on the Politics and Media Show, which explored the findings of “The New Face of Digital Populism” by leading think-tank Demos, on Monday 14 November, 2011.
Based on a study of 10,000 online supporters, the report outlines how social media are being harnessed by far right groups to further their agendas. (more…)
Islam in our midst review by Family Research Council (FRC)
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Family Research Council (FRC) review of Islam in our midst
Islam in Our Midst – A Review
by Alexander Marcus
November 15, 2011
Ancient Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero once said that, “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.” It seems to me that this quote greatly exemplifies what is happening in the United States currently in regards to Islam. In his book Islam in our Midst, author Patrick Sookhdeo informs the reader of what is happening within the walls of the United States and its threat to Christianity. Sookhdeo keys in on four different areas that are being affected by Islam: Understanding the Public Square since 9/11, Western and Non-Western Worldviews, and the impact of Islam on Society. By looking at these three areas, it can be seen that this book is a must-read for those concerned with what is happening within the United States in regards to Islam. (more…)
Islam in our midst review by FrontPageMag.com
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FrontPageMag.com review of Islam in our midst
The Problem With Islam
Posted by Kenneth R. Timmerman Bio on Nov 4th, 2011
It is difficult for Americans to comprehend the challenge to Western civilization from Islam and Islamist ideology. While our political leaders tell us constantly that we are not at war with Islam, the Obama administration will not acknowledge the fact that we are at war with Islamist ideology.
In a slim new volume of four essays, “Islam in our Midst: the Challenge to our Christian Heritage,” Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo examines the roots of Islamist ideology and finds little difference between them and Islam itself as it is currently preached in the Muslim mainstream. (more…)
Dr Patrick Sookhdeo responds to critical Guardian article
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On 9 September 2011, The Guardian newspaper in the UK published an article by Mehdi Hasan, senior political editor of the New Statesman, entitled “How fear of criminalisation forces Muslims into silence”. This contained a number of specific and personal criticisms of Barnabas Fund’s International Director, Dr Patrick Sookhdeo.
This is not the first time in the recent past that this newspaper has published a biased piece highly critical of Dr Sookhdeo’s work (see also this 2009 blog post by Andrew Brown). But on this occasion he has requested and been given the right of reply, and a shorter and significantly edited version of the article below has been published by The Guardian today. Some points we would have liked to make had to be excluded from that piece for reasons of space or editorial policy, so we are now releasing this fuller version to our supporters.
Allegations such as those in the original article imply that highlighting the causes of anti-Christian hostility and speaking out for the freedom of oppressed Christians in Muslim-majority countries (especially converts from Islam to Christianity) amount to hate speech, and so can be used to discredit our advocacy on behalf of the persecuted Church. (more…)
Statement in Support of Dr Patrick Sookhdeo
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In The Guardian, 8 September 2011 journalist and commentator Mehdi Hasan wrote an article discrediting Patrick. This is a public letter of support written by Islamic thinkers Sheikh Dr Muhammad Al-Hussaini, Director, Abraham House –UK and Dr. Tawfik Hamid, Islamic thinker and Reformer. (more…)
Freedom(s), Citizens and the Politics of the Internet Symposium – Keynote Address
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Posted on 4th May 2012 by admin in Briefings, Comment & Analysis
Listen to Patrick Sookhdeo in Adelaide at the Freedom(s), Citizens and the Politics of the Internet Symposium 2011. He was speaking on surveillance, privacy, collaboration and civility in the modern age of terrorism and social media.
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