Author: Kirollos Abdalla

Israeli surgeries saved her life and skin after severe burns when she was six. Years later Wafa, a Gazan who had an entry visa into Israel for continuing treatments, volunteered to be a suicide bomber to kill Israelis — in the same hospital where she got treated. At the checkpoint, Israelis saw the bomb. She tried to detonate it. It didn’t work. She got 12 years in prison. The Israelis continued to treat her burns and gave her a college education. She was returned to Gaza in the 2011 Galid Shalit prisoner release. Shortly thereafter, journalist Leland Vittert visited her…

By Kirollos Abdalla — As the Pakistani school kids cheered wildly the killing of civilians in the Twin Towers on 9/11, Momus Najmi felt very alien. “There were innocent people that died. The principal of the school led the cheers. How can they celebrate innocent people dying?” says the ex-Muslim immigrant in the UK. “You have to be a bad Muslim if you’re a good person. The only good Muslims are Taliban.” In the West, a Christian who analyzes, rejects and criticizes the religion of his upbringing is called a free-thinker. But a Muslim who analyzes, rejects and criticizes the…

By Kirollos Abdalla — Born in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood is banned in Egypt. It is banned or a designated terrorist organization in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Russia, Austria and Jordan. Meanwhile, it is welcomed most heartily in the United Kingdom. “Actually, the UK today is the only place where the group can have an office with its name,” says Egyptian political analyst Dalia Ziada. “The Muslim Brotherhood can have an office and the banner on this office with their name. We’re living in a crazy world.” U.S. Senator Ted Cruz hopes this year his legislation to ban…

By Kirollos Abdalla — On the same day Hamas invaded Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, liberal college students jumped into action, doing Hamas’ PR, intimidating Jews, staging protests and encampments. “We are not just in solidarity with this movement. We are part of this movement. We are all operating under a unified command,” said a toolkit issued that day to members of Students for Justice in Palestine. “They literally identify themselves as being members of Hamas,” Goldfeder says. That toolkit was the basis for suing SJP on the grounds of “aiding and abetting” a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. Mark Goldfeder…

By Kirollos Abdalla – Now we know, Hamas are ants. Just like ants make extensive and complex tunnels, Hamas built an extensive network of 600+ miles of tunnels — dubbed the Metro of Gaza — at an estimated cost of $1 billion. During some 12 years, they made tunnels just below the surface and tunnels at 200 meters down, out of reach for bunker buster bombs. They made tunnels big enough for trucks to drive through, tunnels with rails to transport material, tunnels to import weapons and finances from Egypt. They were reinforced with steel and concrete. They spent $250,000…

By Kirollos Abadalla — An Iranian who got a PhD in AI in California but turned to a lifetime of outreaching his nation says Iran will soon cease to be a springboard for Islamic terror around the world. “This fire of a revival has started and it’s going to impact not just Iran,” says Hormoz Shariat, whose satellite channel Iran Alive gets 7M daily views. “It’s going to impact the whole Middle East and even the whole world. Am I saying talking big that Iran will be a Christian nation? Yes.” When he became a Christian after being a successful…

By Kirollos Abdalla — For more than 10 years, Shaun King was an emblematic social justice warrior. He fought police brutality and racism, wielding his fierce pen at the New York Daily News, The Young Turks and The North Star. Then in March 2024, the icon for the Left — whose combined followers on X, IG and FB is 8 million — became Muslim. “It has touched me in the most profound ways to see people right now in the most dangerous, traumatic place on the planet still be able to sometimes look at nothing but rubble and the remains…

By Kirollos Abdalla — For the first time ever, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar and a host of other Arab nations unequivocally condemned the terrorism of Hamas and called for the Gaza leadership group to disarm and hand over power to another Palestinian group. “On the part of Saudi Arabia and the Arab and Muslim countries who for the first time will condemn terrorism, the acts of terror on the 7th of October, a call for the disarmament of Hamas and expressed their hope to have a normalized relationship with Israel in due time,” said UJean-Noël Barrot, the French foreign minister,…

By Kirollos Abdalla — An Oklahoma man who was caring for his elderly father in Syria was dragged outside and executed in Tishreen Square by Syrian-backed militia — the latest of 182 estimated to be killed by government soldiers. Interim President Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa (formerly an ISIS commander known as Al-Julani) blamed the Druze as renegade terrorists threatening to undermine the legitimacy of the new government. The Druze along with the Kurds have refused the government’s order to disarm. Hosam Saraya, a 35-year-old MBA graduate of Oklahoma Christian University, was made to kneel before being killed in the Druze-majority city…

He became a recruiter for the Egyptian Islamist organization Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya which tried to overthrow the government and institute Sharia law. Salam’s earliest memory was the death of President Nasser, the anti-Israel socialist. When Andwar Sadat, the next Egyptian president, signed peace treaty with Israel, Salam cried; he saw it as a betrayal. Every day he had to pass by the Israeli Embassy on his way to school, and he would spit on it, going and coming. “Every problem we had in the 70s and 80s were blamed on Israel,” explains Salam (@IbnAlwarraq on X). “Rising prices,corruption in the government,…