Syrian-American Muslim rapper Mona Haydar’s “songs come from her intersectional identity and sensibilities,” noted a 2022 profile by Northeastern University’s Asian American Center. Indeed, review of her Twitter account and her starring role in the recent PBS documentary series Great Muslim American Road Trip reveals that she affirms numerous, hackneyed “intersectional” beliefs. “Each of her […]
War in Ukraine and the World
Vladimir Putin’s aggression against Ukraine has unleashed several national security debates in the United States and among its allies in Europe and beyond over how the West should respond. Questions have arisen over the necessity of defeating Putin’s aggression, to what extent this is possible, and whether Putin would utilize nuclear weapons. To discuss these […]
Chris Elston Confronts Gender Insanity in Canada and Beyond
From Vancouver, Canada, Chris Elston has achieved prominence as Billboard Chris by opposing destructive “transgender” indoctrination in Canadian schools. Against enormous resistance, he has called attention to harmful practices such as prescribing puberty blockers with lifelong effects to youth suffering gender dysphoria. The Harry Potter fan Elston notably commissioned in 2020 a road sign in Vancouver with the statement “I love JK Rowling” […]
Politics in Our Times and the End Times
Sophia Institute Press has published a new edition of the 1997 book, The Wrath of God: How to Read the Signs of the Times and Recognize the Evils of Our Age. Written by Italian priest and Catholic radio commentator Livio Fanzaga, the book examines the evils of leftist, atheistic ideologies in the modern world and how this relates […]
Does LGBT Pride Go Before the Fall?
For over fifty years, LGBT groups have declared June their Pride month in honor of the June 27-28, 1969, riots at New York City’s Stonewall Inn, a gay bar, in response to police raids in an era when numerous laws across the United States prohibited homosexual relations and cross-dressing. June 2022 witnessed perhaps the greatest Pride spectacle yet, as […]
Satanic Secularism
“It should not surprise the person alerted to spiritual realities that in an age of atheism diverse forms of the religion of Satanism have sprung up all over the world and are gaining followers at a rapid rate.” So wrote the late Catholic priest Vincent P. Miceli in his 1981 book, The Antichrist: The Final […]
Muslims and Abortion Post-Roe v. Wade
What does Islam teach about abortion? This question has become particularly pressing after the Supreme Court’s bombshell reversal in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization of the 1973 precedent, Roe v. Wade, which in conjunction with other Supreme Court cases proclaimed an unlimited constitutional “right” of abortion. Now Americans of all backgrounds, including Muslims, will decide on the legality of […]
Syria’s Devil You Know
“In a movement of sheer masochism, the West encouraged political developments that would destroy systems designed as a safeguard against extremism,” writes Alexandre Goodarzy in a new Sophia Institute Press translation of his French memoirs. In Kidnapped in Iraq: A Christian Humanitarian Tells His Story, this French Catholic aid worker critically examines foolish Western beliefs that the […]
The Long Jihad against Syria’s Christians
“A reconciliation with these Muslims, who wake up one day and simply strip away what little you have—never!” starkly pronounced to French Catholic aid worker Alexandre Goodarzy his future Syrian Christian wife. Such experiences with Syrian Christians in his newly translated memoir, Kidnapped in Iraq: A Christian Humanitarian Tells His Story, indicate the centuries of […]
Syria’s Jihad Winter
The post-2011 uprising against Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian dictatorship “wasn’t a social revolution but a coup to create a caliphate and return to the time of the prophet Muhammad” of Islam, writes Alexandre Goodarzy in a new book. Kidnapped in Iraq: A Christian Humanitarian Tells His Story, a Sophia Institute Press English translation of his memoirs […]