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Patrick Sookhdeo (born 20 March 1947) is the director of the Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity and International Director 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 British and NATO military officers on radical Islam.〔 ==Life== Patrick Sookhdeo was born in 1947 in British Guiana (now Guyana), to an originally Hindu father who had become a Muslim in order to marry Sookhdeo's Muslim mother. His family migrated to England in the late 1950s and, in 1965, the student Sookhdeo converted to Christianity. In 1967 he pursued studies at London Bible College (now the London School of Theology) and went on to obtain a Doctorate from the London University's School of 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, and the Islamic death penalties for conversion from Islam.〔 In 1975 with his wife Rosemary, Dr Sookhdeo founded "In Contact Ministries" now called Servants Fellowship International,〔(Servants Fellowship International, Charity Number 280859 )〕 promoting evangelism and compassionate ministries in multi-cultural urban contexts in the UK. 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 is the International Director of the Barnabas Fund, a charity that supports persecuted Christian minorities around the world. Dr Sookhdeo was awarded the 2001 Coventry Cathedral International Prize for Peace and Reconciliation,. The Syriac Orthodox Church has awarded him St. Ignatius Theophoros' Decoration as Commander. He is also Chorepiscopus in the Syriac Orthodox Church. He is Dean Theologian of the Diocese of Abuja Province, Nigeria, and ordained in the Church of Pakistan. Dr Sookhdeo is non- residentiary canon of Khyber Diocese, Pakistan. He has been a pastor, evangelist and Bible teacher for 40 years. He has been the Adjunct Professor at Western Seminary and Guest Professor at the Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida and McLean, Virginia, as well as lecturing in many other theological institutions. He has lectured, taught and written extensively on religious, cultural and security issues. He is currently Adjunct Professor at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies and Senior Visiting Fellow at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom and Visiting Professor at Cranfield University, UK. He has been a visiting lecturer at Oak Hill Theological College, London; at Ridley Hall, Cambridge; at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford; and Guest Lecturer at the NATO School, Oberammergau, Germany. He is a Fellow of The Security Institute of the UK. He is the author of numerous papers and author/editor of several books, including ''Global Jihad: The Future in the Face of Militant Islam'' (reviews of which are accessible here〔http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2008/11/12/a-review-of-global-jihad-by-patrick-sookhdeo/〕〔http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/46902.html〕〔http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/15190/sec_id/15190〕) and ''Understanding Islamist Terrorism''. Melanie Phillips reported in ''The Spectator'' that Sookhdeo received death threats following the publicationn of ''Global Jihad''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Beware The New Axis of Evangelicals and Islamists )〕 A number of his books have been translated into German, Romanian and Russian, and at least one book is translated into Norwegian (''A Christian's Pocketguide to Islam''/''Den kristnes lommeguide til Islam''). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Patrick Sookhdeo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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