While history teaches us the necessity of defending the Truth, contemporary political elites seem to have abdicated in the face of the rise of a culture foreign to our roots. This is the bitter but lucid observation made by Sabatina James, a courageous voice rising from the tumult to warn a slumbering West. In her new work titled "The Price of Love: The Destiny of a Woman and a Warning to the West", this convert from Islam to Catholicism exposes the brutal reality of sharia and the urgency of defending religious freedom.
Born in Pakistan into a Muslim family, Sabatina James experienced in her own flesh the violence inherent in the strict application of Islamic laws. Having refused a forced marriage, she suffered brutal consequences before finding the Light of Christ. Her conversion to Christianity, considered apostasy by Islam, earned her a death sentence, forcing her to flee her native country to survive. Today, she laments the guilty silence of institutions that should be the guardians of faith and the city.
In an interview with the National Catholic Register on December 23, 2025, she highlights a fundamental error made by too many Catholics, particularly in the United States: the naive belief that all religions are equal or share the same foundations. For Sabatina James, it is "essential that Christians understand what Islam teaches about them". She reminds us that Christianity is a message centered on love, forgiveness, and freely chosen faith, while Islamic doctrine, via sharia and jihad, emphasizes law, authority, and coercion. "These differences are not marginal; they shape societies, legal systems, and the treatment of those who do not belong to the dominant faith," she clarifies.
Sabatina James's analysis aligns with that of Cardinal Robert Sarah, who called her book a "wake-up call for the West". The convert points to the inability, or even reluctance, of Western leaders to confront the reality of the Quranic text and the life of Muhammad. The latter, a political and military leader, advocated for the subjugation of non-Muslims. This ambition for universal domination, she explains, does not always manifest through open violence, but sometimes through insidious influence on educational institutions or demographics, with the aim of Islamizing societies from within.
The theological contrast is striking and cannot be ignored by a Catholic mind formed in Tradition. In Islamic theology, the divine sonship of Jesus and His crucifixion are denied. The Christian faith is labeled a falsification, and conversion to Christianity is a crime deserving death. Sabatina James then poses a crucial question: "Do we claim to preserve the democratic freedoms, religious liberty, and prosperity we have inherited, or are we prepared to relinquish them in a way that will permanently determine the lives of our children and grandchildren?"
The willful blindness of the media and politicians is particularly glaring in the treatment of crimes committed in the UK, in Rotherham, Rochdale, and Telford. Gangs, composed almost exclusively of Muslim men of Pakistani origin, sexually exploited young girls. The media hid the reality by labeling these criminals as "Asian", omitting the fact that the victims were targeted because they were not Muslim. Sabatina James explains that these acts are not aberrations, but find their justification in certain religious texts, like Surah 4:24, and in the historical example of Muhammad concerning female war captives. "Seen from this angle, the crimes committed by these gangs in Rotherham are not random aberrations, but the logical consequences of the Islamic ideology they claim to follow," she asserts.
Faced with this situation, Sabatina James denounces in a chapter of her book titled "The Retreat", where she criticizes the sterile political activism of some ecclesiastical institutions that neglect the defense of the Faith and support for persecuted Christians. She reminds us that the growth of Islamism is not a reaction to secularization, but a continuous expansion facilitated by the weakness of European societies that have allowed the gradual establishment of norms contrary to their heritage. It is time, according to her, to face the truth: one tradition is receding while another advances with confidence.