Biography

I have added another book about Muslims to my list of "Books I Have Read." This one is a little different in that the author never was a Muslim, even though he was a Palestinian and later in life married an Egyptian. He grew up in Jerusalem and was farmed out to a Catholic orphanage, and had most of his early schooling in a French Catholic private school. He later went on to get many different degrees at various universities, and lived in Beirut, Jordan, Israel, Egypt, and Morocco.

As a young man, he questioned his Catholic up-bringing when his older brother invited him to a Baptist church in old Jerusalem. The book is about his journey of faith and eventually the calling he had to become a radio broadcaster, telling the Arabic world about Jesus. His mantra is that talking about religion never goes anywhere. Talking about Jesus is what gets results. He learned how to appeal to the Muslim culture and mind and became successful doing so. From that point of view it is interesting, however the book is poorly written, feeling disjointed and incomplete.

My quest in reading all these books about Muslims is to discover the nature of the dichotomy in the world of Islam, the division, if it indeed exists, between the radical and the peaceful aspects of that religion. I am making some progress.