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Habib C. Malik
Malik’s Christianity is present in everything he wrote and said, and any true account of the man will acknowledge this. Continue Reading »
The Body and the Blood: The Holy Land’s Christians at the Turn of a New Millennium, A Reporter’s Journey
From the June/July 2002 Print EditionTravel literature presents the reader with singular challenges, foremost among them the need to discern the limitations of the genre. When an accomplished writer such as V. S. Naipaul, for instance, journeys through Islamic lands and writes anecdotally about their culture and attitudes, his . . . . Continue Reading »
Over the centuries, political Islam has not been too kind to the native Christian communities living under its rule. Anecdotes of tolerance aside, the systematic treatment of Christians and Jews (who fall under the Islamic category of dhimmi ) as second-class citizens is abusive and discriminatory . . . . Continue Reading »
As Communism loses its menacing posture and its threat recedes globally. Western concentration is beginning to focus increasingly on an old and inscrutable foe: Islam. The vast natural resources of the Middle East, the birthplace of Islam, coupled with the inherent political instability of the . . . . Continue Reading »
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