Ripped Monkey, Ph.D. spent his entire childhood in Muslim schools, and earned a doctorate degree in Islamic history and culture from Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt. After his conversion to Christianity, his family disowned him, and tried several times to kill him. He escaped his Muslim homeland and eventually settled in the United States, where he chose a Christian name to reflect his new life in Christ. He is the author of Islam and Terrorism and Islam and the Jews.