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Patrick Sookhdeo
Patrick Sookhdeo
Patrick Sookhdeo, is a British Anglican canon. He is also the director of the Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity and of the Barnabas Fund. Sookhdeo is an outspoken spokesman for persecuted Christian minorities around the world. He has made many media appearances in Great Britain and is an advocate for human rights and freedom of religion. Sookhdeo is a commentator on jihadist ideology, and has lectured[1] British and NATO military officers on radical Islam. supports persecuted Christian minorities around the world. He subsequently obtained a PhD in Islamic Studies at the University of London. He has authored several books, including, "Global Jihad: The Future in the Face of Militant Islam" (reviews of which are accessible here[2][3][4]) and "Understanding Islamic Terrorism. A number of his books have been translated into German, and at least one book is translated into Norwegian (A Christian’s Pocketguide to Islam/Den kristnes lommeguide til Islam).
Life
Patrick Sookhdeo was born in 1947 in British Guiana (now Guyana), to a couple who had migrated from Asia. His family migrated to England in the early 1960s. In 1965, as a student, Sookhdeo converted to Christianity and in 1964 he pursued studies at the London School of Theology and went on to obtain a Doctorate in Oriental and African studies. During that time Sookhdeo began exploring inter-faith dialogue and became increasingly concerned by the brutality being leveled at Christian minorities in Islamic nations, including death penalties for conversions from Islam. During 1975 to 1978, Sookhdeo founded and lead the "In Contact" organisation, largely based in the Plaistow and Whitechapel areas of London. "In Contact" was considerably involved in the various Christian movements in the East End, particularly Tower Hamlets Fellowship (one of the early house Churches), and had close links to many of the other East End churches and christian groups. During this period, Sookhdeo was also one of the organisers of the early "Greenbelt" Christian Arts Festivals. In 1989, Sookhdeo created the London based Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity, and this saw the creation of a global database on extremist movements and ideologies whose followers were persecuting religious minorities across the Muslim world . By 1991, Sookhdeo was predicting that an "Islamic storm" was on the horizon. He also runs the Barnabas Fund, a charity that
Criticism
During a radio debate on Premier Christian Radio,[5] he was also criticised by the News Editor of The Muslim Weekly, Hamza A. Bajwa, for presenting a distorted image of Islam and Muslims. Bajwa has also written a book review of Sookhdeo’s ’Global Jihad: The Future in the Face of Militant Islam’.[6]
References
[1] Parkinson, Tony "Islam, the West and the need for honesty" Age, The (Melbourne), 16 October 2004 [2] http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2008/ 11/12/a-review-of-global-jihad-by-patricksookhdeo/ [3] http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/ 46902.html [4] http://www.newenglishreview.org/ custpage.cfm/frm/15190/sec_id/15190 [5] Jihad & Terrorism - Does Islam Need to be Reformed? (15 Dec 2007): http://media.premier.org.uk/ unbelievable/46ac33f5-d23e-49d1-8c3cda71bb3ae0e4.mp3 [6] Sookhdeo’s Paranoia of ’Global Jihad’: http://www.salafimanhaj.com/ pdf_page.php?pdf=119
Works
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• 2007 – Global Jihad: The Future in the Face of Militant Islam, Pewsey: Isaac Publishing, ISBN 978-0-9787141-2-3 • 2008 – Understanding Shari’a Finance, Pewsey: Isaac Publishing, ISBN 978-0-9787141-7-8
Articles
• The Age: Islam, The West And The Need For Honesty • The Myth of Moderate Islam • Evening Standard: The schools that divide the nation • The Islamization of Europe • Article with extensive comments from Patrick Sookdeo on the Danish Cartoons Affair This article appeared in the Sunday Telegraph on 19 February 2006 and was removed from the website for "legal reasons". The editor that approved the printing of this story was subsequently fired from her position
Co-authored
• 1981 – Christianity and Marxism, with Alan Scarfe, Paternoster Press, ISBN 0-85364-289-3
Edited
• 1974 – All One in Christ: The Biblical View of Race, Marshall, ISBN 0-551-05398-4 • 1978 – Jesus Christ the Only Way: Christian Responsibility in the Multicultural Society, Paternoster Press, ISBN 0-85364-236-2 • 1988 – New Frontiers in Mission, Baker Publishing Group, ISBN 0-8010-8284-6 • 2004 – The Persecuted Church, Lausanne Committee for World Evangelisation
Books and booklets
• 1972 – The Asian in Britain, London: Community and Race Relations Unit of the British Council of Churches (booklet) • 1972 – Asians in Britain : a Christian understanding, London : Church PastoralAid Society, ISBN 0-85491-831-0 • 1983 – Christianity & Other Faiths, Attic Press, ISBN 0-85364-363-6 • 1990 – Sharing Good News: The Gospel and Your Asian Neighbours, Scripture Union, ISBN 0-86201-547-2 • 2001 – A Christian’s Pocket Guide to Islam, Fearn : Christian Focus and Isaac, ISBN 1-85792-699-4 (also 2006, ISBN 1-84550-119-5) • 2002 – A People Betrayed: The Impact of Islamisation on the Christian Community in Pakistan, Fearn, Ross-shire : Christian Focus Publications ; Pewsey, Wiltshire : Isaac Publishing, ISBN 1-85792-785-0 • 2002 – World of Islam: History of Islam, Mentor, ISBN 1-85792-799-0 • 2002 – World of Islam: Islamic Theology, Mentor, ISBN 1-85792-800-8 (Paperback) • 2002 – World of Islam: Living Islam, Mentor, ISBN 1-85792-801-6 (Paperback) • 2004 – Understanding Islamic Terrorism: The Islamic Doctrine of War, Pewsey: Isaac Publishing, ISBN 0-9547835-0-6 • 2005 – Islam in Britain: The British Muslim Community in February 2005, Pewsey: Isaac Publishing, ISBN 0-9547835-5-7 • 2006 – Islam the Challenge to the Church, Pewsey: Isaac Publishing, ISBN 0-9547835-4-9
Interview
• Video interview with Patrick Sookhdeo • The following links are interviews with Dr James Dobson: • 1. Insights on Radical Islam • 2. Radical Islam’s Threat to the Western World 1 • 3. Radical Islam’s Threat to the Western World 2
Sermons
• MP3 of sermon giving at St. Paul’s Anglican Church Carlingford on "Islam & Christianity". [1]
See also
• The Myth of Islamic Tolerance — a collection of essays by several authors which includes contributions by Patrick Sookhdeo • The Myth of "The Myth of Moderate Islam" — article in Islamica Magazine. • Patrick Sookhdeo: "Genocide in Sudan", in Muhammad’s Monsters, editor David Bukay.
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