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He does not believe all Muslims are Radicals, but he does believe all Muslims are spiritually lost, and he wants desperately to help them find their way to forgiveness and reconciliation with the God who made them and loves them.
:"Botros’s motive is not to incite the West against Islam, promote “Israeli interests,” or “demonize” Muslims, but to draw Muslims away from the dead legalism of sharia to the spirituality of Christianity. Many Western critics fail to appreciate that, to disempower radical Islam, something theocentric and spiritually satisfying — not secularism, democracy, capitalism, materialism, feminism, etc. — must be offered in its place. The truths of one religion can only be challenged and supplanted by the truths of another. And so Father Zakaria Botros has been fighting fire with fire."<ref>Ibrahim, Raymond. [http://islamdom.blogspot.com/2008/03/zaakaria-botros-fight-fire-with-fire.html Zakaria Botros: Fight Fire with Fire]. Islam and Christianity. March 27, 2008.</ref>
'''"I believe this is the hand of God,"''' Botros told me. ''' "He is directing me. He shows me what to say. He shows me what to write on the web sites. He is showing me more and more how to use the technology to reach people with his message of redemption." ''' <ref>Orthodox News. [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OrthodoxNews/message/9940 Jihad Watch: Al Qaeda declares Coptic priest Zakaria Botros "one of the most wanted infidels in the world"]. September 10, 2008.</ref>
