It is strange how the entire world is staring at this tiny man. As if he were the new David, fighting Goliath with a piece of paper and a pen. Although he might look tiny on the outside, Magdi Cristiano Allam does not lack of courage. “I want to belong to God,” said the deputy director of Il Corriere della Sera to his religious mentor, Father Gabriele Mangiarotti, just before his sensational conversion. Clearly that was not Allah . . .