- C. S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis, commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis, was an Irish author and scholar. Lewis is known for his work on medieval literature, Christian apologetics, literary criticism and fiction. He is best known today for his series "The Chronicles of Narnia". Lewis was a close friend of J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of "The Lord of the Rings". - Walid Shoebat
Walid Shoebat is an American citizen, born to Palestinian father and American mother. By self definition, he is a former PLO terrorist. Shoebat came to public attention by becoming an ardent critic of Islam and supporter of Israel. He describes himself as a former member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation who took part in terrorist attacks against Israeli targets. He is the founder of the Walid Shoebat Foundation, … - Nonie Darwish
Nonie Darwish (born c. 1949) is an Arab-American writer and public speaker. She is the author of the book "Now they Call Me Infidel; Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel and the War on Terror". She is also a public speaker and founder of Arabs for Israel. The outspoken daughter of a "shahid" (martyr), Darwish attributes her father's death to "the Middle Eastern Islamic culture and the propaganda of hatred taught to children from birth". - Zachariah Anani
Zachariah Anani (also Zack or Zak) is a former Muslim Lebanese militia fighter. He would later convert to Christianity and seek refuge in Canada in 1996. - Lina Joy
Lina Joy is a Malay convert from Islam to Christianity. Born Azlina Jailani in 1964 in Malaysia to Muslim parents, she converted at age 26. In 1998, she was baptized, and applied to have her conversion legally recognized by the Malaysian courts. Though her change of name was recognized in 1999 and so noted on her identity card, her change of religion was not (since it is without the Mahkamah Syariah confirmation document); for this reason, … - Michael Nazir-Ali
Michael James Nazir-Ali (born 19 August 1949) is the Pakistani-born 106th and current Bishop of Rochester in the Church of England. He holds dual Pakistani and British citizenship. - Paul The Apostle
St. Paul the Apostle (שאול התרסי in Hebrew), the "Apostle to the Gentiles" was, together with Saint Peter, the most notable of Early Christian missionaries. Unlike the Twelve Apostles, Paul did not know Jesus in life; he came to faith through a vision of the risen Jesus and stressed that his apostolic authority was based on his vision. As he wrote, he "received it [the Gospel] by revelation from Jesus Christ" ; according to Acts, … - Augustine Of Hippo
Aurelius Augustinus, Augustine of Hippo, or Saint Augustine (November 13, 354 - August 28, 430) was one of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity, there considered to be one of the church fathers. He framed the concepts of original sin and just war. In Roman Catholicism and the Anglican Communion, he is a saint and pre-eminent Doctor of the Church, and the patron of the Augustinian religious order. - Constantine I
Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus (27 February c. 280 - 22 May 337 AD), commonly known as Constantine I, (among Roman Catholics) and Constantine the Great, or Saint Constantine (among Eastern Orthodox Christians), was a Roman Emperor, proclaimed Augustus by his troops in 306, who ruled an ever-growing portion of the Roman Empire until his death. Best known for being the first Christian Roman Emperor, … - Mordechai Vanunu
The traitor "' (born Marrakech, Morocco, October 13 1954), also known by his baptismal name John Crossman"', is an Israeli former nuclear technician who revealed details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986. He was subsequently abducted in Rome by Israeli Mossad agents and smuggled to Israel, where he was tried in secret and convicted of treason. - Bobby Jindal
Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (born June 10, 1971, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is a Louisiana politician. Jindal was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives on November 2, 2004, from Louisiana's First Congressional District (map), based in the suburbs of New Orleans. He was re-elected to Congress in the 2006 election with 88 percent of the vote in the 1st district. He intends to be a candidate for Governor of Louisiana in the October 20, 2007 election. - 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, a former Muslim is considered an international authority on jihadist ideology, … - Brother Andrew
Andy van der Bijl (born 11 May 1928), known in English-speaking countries as Brother Andrew, is a Christian missionary famous for his exploits smuggling Bibles to communist countries in the height of the Cold War, a feat that has earned him the nickname "God's smuggler". Brother Andrew studied at the Bible Training Institute (now the International Christian College) in Glasgow, Scotland. Brother Andrew was born in Sint Pancras, the Netherlands, … - Joel C. Rosenberg
Joel C. Rosenberg is a "New York Times" best-selling American author and a communications strategist. He has worked with some notable figures in business, politics, and media, including Steve Forbes, Rush Limbaugh, and former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He has written four novels about terrorism, along with his more recent novel, Epicenter, on the uncanny resemblance of biblical prophecies and current events. - Robert Novak
Robert David Sanders Novak (born February 26, 1931) is a conservative American political commentator. Over his lengthy career, Bob Novak has become well-known as a columnist (writing "Inside Report" since 1963) and as a television personality (appearing on many shows for CNN, most notably "The Capital Gang", "Crossfire", and "Evans, Novak, Hunt, and Shields"). His memoirs was published in July 2007 entitled 'Prince of Darkness, … - Edith Stein
Edith Stein (October 12, 1891 - August 9, 1942) was a philosopher, a Carmelite nun, martyr, and saint of the Catholic Church, who died at Auschwitz. In 1922, she converted to Christianity, was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church and was received into the Discalced Carmelite Order in 1934. She was canonized as Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (her Carmelite monastic name) by Pope John Paul II in 1998; however, she is still often referred to, … - Israel Shamir
Israel Shamir is a writer and journalist who is known as a controversial anti-Zionist. He is a citizen of Sweden, where his legal name is Adam Ermash (previously Jöran Jermas). Critics (including several pro-Palestinian activists) have accused Shamir of anti-Semitism and of misrepresenting his background and career. - Heinrich Heine
Christian Johann Heinrich Heine was a journalist, an essayist, and one of the most significant German romantic poets. He is remembered chiefly for selections of his lyric poetry, many of which were set to music in the form of "lieder" (art songs) by German composers. - Chiang Kai-Shek
Chiang Kai-shek (October 31, 1887 - April 5, 1975) was the Chinese military and political leader who assumed the leadership of the Kuomintang (KMT) after the death of Sun Yat-sen in 1925. He led the national government of the Republic of China (ROC) from 1928 to 1975. He commanded the Northern Expedition to unify China against the warlords and emerged victorious in 1928 as the overall leader of the Republic of China. Chiang led China in the Second Sino-Japanese War, … - Mehdi Dibaj
Mehdi Dibaj (c. 1935 - June/July 1994) was an Iranian Christian convert from Islam, pastor and Christian martyr. Dibaj became a Christian as a young man and joined the Jama'at-e Rabbani Church, the Iranian branch of the Assemblies of God. After the 1979 Iranian revolution he encountered difficulties. In 1983 he was arrested and imprisoned without trial in Sari and systematically tortured. - Kirk Cameron
Kirk Thomas Cameron (born October 12, 1970) is an American actor who is perhaps most notable for his role as "Mike Seaver" on the sitcom "Growing Pains". Cameron is currently a partner in the evangelical Christian ministry "The Way of the Master" - Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru. Since the 1960s Fonda has appeared in several movies. She has won two Academy Awards and received several other awards and nominations. She initially announced her retirement from acting in 1991, and said for many years that she would never act again, but she returned to film in 2005 with "Monster in Law", … - Henry Makow
Henry Makow, Ph.D., (born November 12, 1949 in Zürich, Switzerland) is a Jewish-Canadian non-fiction writer, the inventor of the board game Scruples, and the author of "A Long Way to go for a Date," the story of his courtship and marriage to a young Filipina. He believes that it is a good thing to maintain racial identity but would not let that prevent intermarriage. As a baby,he moved with his family to Canada, settling in Ottawa. - Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Is a counter-terrorism expert and attorney living in Washington D.C. He was born in Ashland, Oregon to Jewish parents. He converted to Islam in his mid 20's because he was impressed by how religious his muslim friend was. He worked for the U.S. head of the Al Haramain Islamic Foundation, a Wahhabi charity that supported Al-Qaida. His job was to educate prisoners about what Al Haramain considered to be true Islam. - Francis Collins
Francis S. Collins (born April 14, 1950), M.D., Ph.D., is a physician-geneticist, noted for his landmark discoveries of disease genes, and his leadership of the Human Genome Project (HGP). He is director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). With Collins at the helm, the HGP has attained several milestones, while running ahead of schedule and under budget. A working draft of the human genome was announced in June 2000, … - Otto Weininger
Otto Weininger was an Austrian philosopher. In 1903, he published the book "Geschlecht und Charakter" ("Sex and Character") which gained popularity after Weininger's suicide at the age of 23. Today, the book is often dismissed as sexist, homophobic and anti-Semitic, especially by those in the academic community ; however, it continues to be held up as a great work of lasting genius and spiritual wisdom by others, … - Kent Hovind
Kent Hovind is an American evangelist and Young Earth creationist. He is most famous for creation science seminars, many of which have been taped and widely distributed. His seminars, which often make use of humor, aim to convince listeners to believe in creationism and to reject evolution. Hovind's views are criticized by the scientific community, … - Jim Talent
James Matthes "Jim" Talent (born October 18, 1956) is an American politician and former Senator from Missouri. He is a Republican and resided in the St. Louis area while serving in elected office. He identifies with the conservative wing of the Republican party, being particularly outspoken on judicial appointments, abortion and flag burning. After serving for eight years in the U.S. House of Representatives and then working as a lobbyist, … - Brian Welch
Brian Phillip Welch (born June 19, 1970 in Torrance, California), better known by his nickname, "Head", is the former guitarist and founding member of Korn, a multi-platinum, Grammy award winning nu metal band and a major influence in the rise of the nu metal movement. Welch played lead guitar with the act as well as provided backup vocals. - Sadhu Sundar Singh
Sadhu Sundar Singh (September 3, 1889 Patiala State, India) is believed to have died in the foothills of the Himalayas in 1929. As a Christian witness he had been rejected as well as welcomed, persecuted, and even left for dead. By many missionaries and even Indian Christian leaders he had been regarded as a highly eccentric convert, totally out of step with contemporary Christianity as he wandered the roads in his yellow robe and turban. - Richard Wurmbrand
Richard Wurmbrand (March 24, 1909 - February 17, 2001) was a Romanian evangelical Christian minister, author, and educator who spent a total of fourteen years imprisoned in Romania, as well as the founder of Voice of the Martyrs. - Epiphanius Of Salamis
Epiphanius (ca. 310-320 - 403) was a Church Father, a heresiologist who was a strong defender of orthodoxy, known for tracking down deviant teachings (heresies) wherever they could be traced, during the troubled era in the Christian Church following the Council of Nicaea. - Lawrence Auster
Lawrence Auster is an American traditionalist conservative blogger and essayist. Auster was born Jewish but later converted to the Episcopal Church. He attended Columbia University. He currently resides in Manhattan. He is the author of "The Path to National Suicide: An Essay on Immigration and Multiculturalism" and "Huddled Clichés: Exposing the fraudulent arguments that have opened America's borders to the world" as well as articles for FrontPage Magazine, … - David Ricardo
David Ricardo (18th April, 1772-11th September, 1823), a political economist, is often credited with systematizing economics, and was one of the most influential of the classical economists, along with Thomas Malthus and Adam Smith. He was also a businessman, financier and speculator, and amassed a considerable fortune. - Enoch Powell
John Enoch Powell, MBE (June 16 1912 - February 8 1998) was a British politician, linguist, writer, academic, soldier and poet. He was a Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) between 1950 and February 1974, and an Ulster Unionist MP between October 1974 and 1987. Controversial throughout his career, his tenure in senior office was brief. He held strong and distinctive views on issues such as race, national identity, immigration, monetary policy, … - Simone Weil
Simone Weil (February 3, 1909 - August 24, 1943) was a French philosopher and mystic. - Hussain Andaryas
Hussain Andaryas is a man from Afghanistan who converted from Islam to Christianity after nine years of research on both religions. He runs over 20 websites (in دری the Afghan Persian) that represent Afghan Christians around the world. He has a daily radio program in Afghanistan. He also has weekly TV programs Afghan Television on Mondays and Tuesdays through Hot-Bird 6. - Howard Phillips
Howard Phillips is an American conservative political figure. A 1962 graduate of Harvard College (where he was twice elected president of the Student Council), Phillips is president of Policy Analysis, Inc., a public policy research organization which publishes the bimonthly "Issues and Strategy Bulletin". Jewish by birth, Phillips converted to evangelical Christianity in adulthood and has been associated with the Christian Reconstructionist movement. - Alfred Edersheim
Alfred Edersheim (March 7, 1825 - March 16, 1889) was a Jewish, biblical scholar who accepted Yeshua (Jesus) as the Messiah. However, he fully maintained his Jewish identity while mainting his faith in the Messiah. He is known especially for his book "The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah" (1883). - Mark A. Gabriel
Mark A. Gabriel, born 30 December, 1957, is a writer on Islamic affairs, who lives in the United States under what he describes as "religious asylum". He is the author of six books critical of Islam, including "Islam and the Jews: The Unfinished Battle" and "Journey into the Mind of an Islamic Terrorist".
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