Raymond Ibrahim

Raymond Ibrahim

  • Tribalism: The Key to Understanding Islam

    February 10, 2025

    Tribalism: The Key to Understanding Islam

    Despite its religious veneer, Islam can easily be defined and understood by one non-religious word: tribalism. This is key. The entire appeal of Muhammad’s call to the Arabs of his time lay in its perfect compatibility with their tribal...

  • When America Paid Tribute to Muslims

    November 20, 2024

    When America Paid Tribute to Muslims

    During his November 1 Friday mosque sermon at the North Hudson Islamic Center in New Jersey, CAIR official Ayman Aishat made a seemingly starting claim: We live in America, the United States of America. Brothers and sisters, those who do not kno...

  • ISIS: ‘Spiritual’ adviser to would-be jihadists around the world

    May 7, 2024

    ISIS: ‘Spiritual’ adviser to would-be jihadists around the world

    Are the Islamic terror attacks that plague the world random outbursts of Muslim madness, or are they the result of calculated directives?  Consider the following, seemingly disparate accounts. On Apr. 22, 2024, Muslim terrorists rammed t...

  • Churchill Gets the Last Word on Islam

    April 15, 2024

    Churchill Gets the Last Word on Islam

    Last month, police were deployed to form a ring of steel around the statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square, London, to protect it from the hands of an irate pro-Palestinian mob. Needless to say, there is something of an irony here: altho...

  • Hamas Treats Captive Israeli Women as Animals

    April 4, 2024

    Hamas Treats Captive Israeli Women as Animals

    The Hamas terrorists behind the Oct. 7, 2023 jihadist raid literally view their female Israeli captives as horses and other animals -- to be “ridden.” During a recent press conference, IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari stressed that Hamas me...

  • Hamas-Supporter Qatar ‘Sponsoring’ What Americans Learn

    March 29, 2024

    Hamas-Supporter Qatar ‘Sponsoring’ What Americans Learn

    “Hamas patron” Qatar has given more than $5.6 billion to 61 American schools since 2007, including Ivy Leaguers such as Harvard University, Yale University, Cornell University, and Stanford University, according to a Feb. 9, 2024 report. ...

  • Who Is Really behind the Moscow Terror Attack?

    March 27, 2024

    Who Is Really behind the Moscow Terror Attack?

    Was the Islamic State (ISIS) behind the Crocus City Hall terror attack in Moscow that killed 139 and wounded 182 on Mar. 22, 2024, or not? Not only did the Islamic State claim the attack, but the Western mainstream is agreed that it was, indeed, b...

  • How Carnage and Atrocities ‘Heal Muslim Hearts’

    March 14, 2024

    How Carnage and Atrocities ‘Heal Muslim Hearts’

    In a recent communiqué, the Islamic State called on its followers to slaughter and terrorize every single Western person they could reach.  A snippet follows (emphases added): Lions of Islam: Chase your preys whether Jewish...

  • ISIS Renews Calls for Terror

    February 23, 2024

    ISIS Renews Calls for Terror

    On Jan. 4, 2024, the Islamic State (ISIS or IS) claimed the terror attack on Kerman, Iran, where 100 were killed on Jan. 3. In the same audio recording, titled “And Kill Them Wherever You Find Them [Koran 9:5],” IS unwittingly underscored...

  • ‘Stop Hating, Wash Feet’

    February 13, 2024

    ‘Stop Hating, Wash Feet’

    Once again, Christians are being reminded that their sole and exclusive function is to behave like doormats for all and sundry. One of Super Bowl Sunday’s ads, titled “Foot Washing,” consists of several consecutive images of peop...

  • <em>The Last Voyage of the Demeter</em>: Destroyed by Wokeism

    February 9, 2024

    The Last Voyage of the Demeter: Destroyed by Wokeism

    Recently, while traveling by plane, I decided to pass the time by watching one of the movies offered.  I settled on The Last Voyage of the Demeter, which is based on a chapter of Dracula (1897), by Bram Stoker.  Having read that novel a...

  • Islam: Theory vs Experience

    February 7, 2024

    Islam: Theory vs Experience

    The gulf between understanding Islam in theory and in practice is wide and telling. Based on the findings of a recent study, what western peoples think of Islam when relying on secondhand information from the powers-that-be (the media, the political ...

  • January 30, 2024

    Rule of thuggery prevails in Denmark

    Denmark recently capitulated, forfeiting its hard-fought freedoms to those who hate it. According to a recent report, Denmark’s parliament has passed a bill that makes it illegal to burn copies of the Quran in public places... The bill, wh...

  • January 25, 2024

    ‘Europeans Will Succumb to Islam,’ Says Former Intelligence Chief

    Islam is on the verge of completely taking over Europe, in all ways -- at least according to one who should know, Hans-Georg Maaßen, Germany’s top domestic intelligence chief from 2012 to 2018.  In a recent interview, he stressed sev...

  • January 12, 2024

    What If the West Only Accepted Christian Refugees from the Muslim World?

    For years now, a number of mostly Eastern European nations have been arguing that, if they are going to accept any refugees from the Muslim world, they prefer Christians. Hungary, for example, has apparently been doing just that. To this, the offi...

  • December 27, 2023

    Was the Dublin Riot a Watershed Moment?

    Because it spotlights the current state of affairs in the West -- and all the key players -- the recent uprising in Dublin should not be so quickly forgotten. Background: on Nov. 23, 2023, a Muslim man of Algerian origin, with a known criminal rec...

  • November 20, 2023

    ObL 'Opens Eyes' on TikTok

    Osama bin Laden is back, opening American eyes to the innumerable ills of their society. A 21-year-old letter from the former al-Qaeda leader recently went viral on TikTok, prompting many of its denizens -- primarily Gen Z’s and not a few Mi...

  • November 8, 2023

    How the billionaire elite manipulates the world

    What is ultimately behind so many of the (manufactured) ills currently plaguing the West, from leftist lunacy and gender insanity to unnecessary lockdowns and wars? In a word, the ultra-rich -- the billionaire elite.  So argues bestselli...

  • November 4, 2023

    ‘We Will Drink Your Blood and Eat Your Skull’: A Legacy of Islamic Savagery

    What’s the deal with Muslim calls for, not just violence, but eating the flesh or drinking the blood of their infidel enemies? Consider the case of Ahed Tamimi, described by Wikipedia as a Palestinian activist… in the occupied We...

  • October 29, 2023

    Spain’s Muslim Migrant Crisis through the Lens of History

    Seafaring Muslims migrants from Africa are illegally entering and flooding Spanish territory.  In 2020, 23,000 migrants invaded Spain’s Canary Islands, representing a 234 percent increase.   That number has only contin...

  • October 18, 2023

    Christian disunity at the Battle of Kosovo II

    One of the most terrible pitched battles between Christians and Muslims -- it took a total of three bloody days to conclude (October 17-20) -- was waged this week on European soil. The year was 1448, and the Ottoman Turks had been invading and ter...

  • October 17, 2023

    'Don’t be so two-faced!’; Muslim reformer lashes out against accusers

    Dr. Ahmed Abdu‘ Maher, an Egyptian scholar with a long history of being relatively straightforward about Islamic history and doctrine in his many books and lectures—to the point that he was sentenced to five years imprisonment, but pardon...

  • September 25, 2023

    ‘Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers’

    All throughout Western Europe, Muslims are transforming former churches into mosques.  They are not doing this by force and conquest, as their ancestors once did, but legally: Europeans are selling or in some cases even donating these churches i...

  • September 22, 2023

    Muslims break the cross

    Back in 2015, I watched a 1-minute video clip of Muslims connected to the Islamic State (ISIS) breaking crosses inside and from atop churches on Arabic social media, where the video had for some days been going viral. Surprised that no one in the ...

  • September 7, 2023

    When Men were Men: Today in History, Europeans Pulverize Jihadists

    Today in history witnessed an epic battle between Christians and Muslims. The sheer ferocity and valor displayed at the battle of Arsuf would make most otherwise “breathtaking” battle scenes emanating from Hollywood seem like child’...

  • August 31, 2023

    Why Muslims hate dogs so much

    On Aug. 25, 2023, a video appeared of Muslim girls covered from head to toe in all black burqas, dancing to a song that praised Islam and cursed "infidels" — that is, all non-Muslims.  The video — which would make ISIS...

  • August 23, 2023

    'Kiss My Feet!' The West capitulates to Islam's ancient demand

    Once again, Muslims are at it — humiliating the despised "other" by forcing them to kneel and kiss their feet. An August 17, 2023, video from Belgium shows a throng of "migrant youth" surrounding a trembling Belgian boy, ...

  • August 13, 2023

    When Muslims got discouraged

    Yesterday marked another epic though largely forgotten battle in the long war between Islam and Christendom. A few weeks after liberating Jerusalem from Muslim control in mid-July 1099, the First Crusaders received their first major challenge...

  • August 11, 2023

    Only 'White People' Ever Enslaved Others, Says Black Professor

    In a recent article, we considered the claims of Brittney Cooper, a professor at Rutgers University.  She believes that all "white people," whom she also refers to as "m------------" who are "committed to being vill...

  • August 2, 2023

    Islam's Sexual Fantasies of European Women Come True?

    It seems that the sexually lurid fantasies of Tarek bin Zayid, a renowned jihadist who spearheaded the conquest of Spain in the eighth century, have finally been fulfilled. When Tarek and thousands of other North African Muslim marauders firs...

  • July 26, 2023

    ‘Shut Up or Else!’ The True Link between Islam and the Left

    Despite their many outward differences, Islamic authoritarianism and leftist liberalism are, in fact, very similar, especially in that they brook no dissent. Here, I’d like to offer a more focused look into their similar modes of operation, ...

  • June 13, 2023

    Jihadist identity of 'Christian' child-stabber revealed?

    A Middle Eastern man who fled the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has just come out insisting that he knows the real identity — and the real name — of the supposed "Christian" man who recently stabbed several childre...

  • June 12, 2023

    Austria Learns About Muslim Hate

    The good people of Austria are shocked -- shocked, I say! -- to learn that the Muslims they’ve invited to live among and benefit from them hold to various divisive, if not downright hostile, doctrines. According to a May 10, 2023 article, ...

  • June 7, 2023

    Baby Muhammads Overrun the West

    Newborn baby Muhammads are taking Western Europe by storm — with Berlin being the latest target.  According to a May 8, 2023 report, [t]he first name Mohammed has gained popularity in Germany in the past year. ... In Berlin, Moha...

  • June 3, 2023

    Today in History: Crusaders Overcome Jihad at Antioch

    Nine-hundred and twenty-five years ago today, on June 3, 1098, a dramatic Christian victory over Islamic oppression took place: the liberation of the ancient Christian city of Antioch. In the years preceding the First Crusade, Turkish invaders wer...

  • May 29, 2023

    ErdoДџan's daughter boasts: Islam will 'break the Western cross'

    Resorting to jihadist rhetoric, Esra, the daughter of Turkish president Recep Tayyip ErdoДџan, recently attacked the West and Christianity. In a tweet written, not in her native Turkish, but in Islam's tongue, Arabic, she declared that "T...

  • May 26, 2023

    City Council bedlam: Somali 'culture' takes Minneapolis by storm

    In a May 11, 2023 article, we explored the axiom that all cultures are created equal — or, in Pope Francis's words, "never again can the Christian community allow itself to be infected by the idea that one culture is superior...

  • May 24, 2023

    Are 'White People Committed to Being Villains'?

    As discussed elsewhere, historical relations between Islam and the West have been utterly distorted in order to present the aggressors as victims and the victims as aggressors. In this article, we look at a similar but even more urgent topic: how ...

  • May 11, 2023

    Is Any 'One Culture Superior to Others'?

    Recently, while apologizing to "indigenous peoples" and denouncing Christians — without the all-important historical context — Pope Francis declared, "Never again can the Christian community allow itself to be infected by t...

  • May 7, 2023

    A 'Rampant Rise' of Necrophilia in Muslim Nations?

    Disturbing connections between the macabre practice of necrophilia and Islam are back in the news. "In a shocking revelation," starts one Apr. 29 report, "parents in Pakistan now guard their dead daughters against rape by putting pa...

  • May 4, 2023

    Report: Unprecedented Rise in Hate Crimes against American Churches

    Attacks on churches and Christian institutions on American soil are at an all-time high.  The Mar. 27, 2023 killings in Nashville — where a woman claiming to be a man (AKA "transgender") stormed a private Christian school an...

  • April 26, 2023

    Christians: The Victims That Must Never Be Named

    Despite the predominance of identity politics -- where the skin and/or non-Western religious identity of any victim is constantly highlighted -- the identity of that one group most persecuted around the world -- Christians -- is always dissembled ove...

  • April 23, 2023

    Without Firing a Shot: How Islam Overcame the West

    In his well-known history of Western civilization, Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) offered an interesting "what if" scenario concerning the pivotal Battle of Tours (732 A.D.).  Then and there, a massive Muslim army — which h...

  • April 21, 2023

    Netflix’s Black Cleopatra Exposed

    By depicting Cleopatra as a Black woman, Netflix’s “Queen Cleopatra” is creating a stir.  Now, because all four of my grandparents were Coptic, and because the Copts are “acknowledged as the remaining descendants of th...

  • April 12, 2023

    Vatican apologizes to the 'infidel enemies of the Christian name'

    According to a recent report, [t]he Vatican has abrogated three papal bulls, claiming that the documents are offensive to indigenous peoples and "have never been considered expressions of the Catholic faith." The bulls Dum Diversas ...

  • March 16, 2023

    The UN Declares War on the 'Poison of Islamophobia'

    According to the U.N.'s website, [t]he United Nations on Friday [03/10/2023] commemorated the first-ever International Day to Combat Islamophobia with a special event in the General Assembly Hall, where speakers upheld the need for concrete ...

  • March 14, 2023

    The left and Islam: A match made in hell

    What's worse: physical evil from an open enemy or clandestine evil from a supposed friend? One need look no farther than to Islam and the so-called "left" — in this case, the U.S. Department of Education — to appreciate t...

  • March 8, 2023

    The Multi-Pronged Attack on Christianity

    In a recent interview, Archbishop Emeritus Gyula Márfi of Hungary “warned of a multi-pronged assault against European Christianity from left-wing forces within the E.U.”  In doing so, he said what many in the West, Christia...

  • March 1, 2023

    Muslim clerics promote pedophilia over adoption

    A little known, though highly controversial, Islamic teaching is back in the news.  According to a Feb. 21, 2023 report, Diyanet, Turkey's highest religious (and therefore Islamic) institution opened a special section on its f...

  • February 24, 2023

    Facebook: Where Jihadist Hate Thrives

    More evidence on how social media works to promote Islamic radicalization — while suppressing its victims — recently emerged.  According to a Feb. 20, 2023 report, "bombshell findings" by the Tech Transparency Project ...

  • January 24, 2023

    How America is becoming like a Muslim country

    Is the world progressing, as the Progressives claim, or is it in fact regressing? More and more evidence suggests the latter.  In fact, in certain respects, the West is increasingly becoming like the quintessential Third World — na...

  • December 8, 2022

    'Kiss my foot, O lowly infidel!'

    Muslims are at it again — forcing the despised other, in this case, Jews, to kiss their feet. On Dec. 1, 2022, two Palestinian teenagers accosted, threatened, and ordered a Jewish (Haredi) man to kiss their feet in Jerusalem's Old City....

  • December 1, 2022

    The 'Muslim vs. Christian' debate you need to watch

    Although somewhat dated, a televised debate from 2019 is instructive of all the "games" certain Muslims play to exonerate their religion while projecting Islam's shortcomings onto the other — in this case, Christian Europeans. ...

  • November 18, 2022

    Islam’s Elixir: Camel Urine

    The Muslim notion that drinking camel urine is a cure-all for any number of ailments is back in the news again. According to a Nov. 5, 2022 Arabic-language report, “a professor of physiology at the Faculty of Medicine at Ain Shams University...

  • November 12, 2022

    Plagiarized: Defenders of the West

    The following notice is to serve as a warning that my book, Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood against Islam, is being plagiarized and sold on Amazon. The fake version was published on Aug. 3, 2022 -- one week aft...

  • November 9, 2022

    Why Are American Muslims So Islamophobic?

    Muslims in America are more Islamophobic than any other demographic in the United States.  According to a recent poll, American Muslims saw fellow Muslims as being more uncivilized, prone to violence, and more hostile to the United States than a...

  • October 26, 2022

    Today in History: Christian Albania Prevails over the Jihad

    Today in history witnessed one of the greatest defenses by a small Christian force against Islamic invaders, the relief of the siege of Croya (Krujë), Albania, in 1450. Nearly four decades earlier, the leader of the Albanian forces, George Ka...

  • October 21, 2022

    ‘Thus Are Moors Defeated!’ The Battle of Cuarte

    Today in history, on October 21, 1094, a small force of Christian knights destroyed a massive Muslim horde in Spain, where the Jihad and Reconquista had been raging. Some years earlier, the Almoravids, a North African group committed to jihadist t...

  • September 25, 2022

    When Christian Soldiers Took the Fight to the Terrorists

    This week in history witnessed the launch of a daringly amazing campaign dedicated to defending and liberating Christian lands from Islam. The year was 1442.  After having suffered countless atrocities from the invading Turks, "ever...

  • September 2, 2022

    Skanderbeg: The Scourge of Islam

    Today in history witnessed one of the most stalwart defenses against the Islamic spear-thrust into Europe -- the Battle of Albulena in Albania, 1457. To appreciate the significance of this epic clash, one must first appreciate the leader of the Al...

  • August 23, 2022

    The Great Lengths Some Muslims Go to Deceive Infidels

    Hindus are becoming more and more familiar with the Muslim doctrine of taqiyya.  A recent article reports that, on two separate occasions,  Muslims murdered two Hindu men by first deceiving them in an effort to get close enough to murder...

  • July 31, 2022

    Are Christians Being Persecuted in America?

    A new study by Lifeway Research found that more than half (54%) of the 1,005 Americans surveyed believe that religious freedom is eroding in the United States.  Even more, 59%, said the treatment of Christians and intolerance for their beli...

  • July 22, 2022

    Why the Church Bells Ring at Noon

    Today in history, on July 22, 1456, the West scored one of its greatest victories over jihad — and, in so doing, inaugurated the ringing of church bells at noon. Three years after conquering Constantinople, the Ottoman sultan, Muhammad II, a...

  • July 19, 2022

    The Islamic Terrorist’s ‘Blame Game’

    Last May, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (“ISIS”) published a video of the execution of about 20 Christian civilians in Nigeria.  As with many other such ISIS-type videos, the terrorists stood behind their bound and kneeling vic...

  • July 16, 2022

    When Christian Spain crushed Islam on the battlefield

    Today in history, on July 16, 1212, an epic battle — which the Islamic State still vows vengeance for — took place between Christians and Muslims, and presaged the demise of Islam in Spain, five hundred years after Muhammad's fol...

  • July 12, 2022

    The Crusader Reconquest of Acre

    Today in history, the important fortress city of Acre fell back to Crusader hands, and in so doing ushered in the Third Crusade, arguably the most bloody and violent of all crusades. Following the decisive battle of Hattin in 1187, Sultan Saladin ...

  • July 5, 2022

    Turkey Seeks to Bury the ‘Current Byzantines’

    On May 29, 2022 in Istanbul and other cities in Turkey, elaborate celebrations were held to commemorate the 569th anniversary of the Islamic conquest of Constantinople in 1453.  During these neo-Ottoman celebrations, President Recep Tayyip ErdoД...

  • July 1, 2022

    When Christians first experienced the Muslim way of war

    Today in history, Europe's heavily armored knights and Islam's jihadist light cavalry had their first major pitched battle, at Dorylauem, in Asia Minor. It had been two years since the First Crusade was called, and Europe's Christians,...

  • June 30, 2022

    When Christians first experienced the Muslim way of war

    Today in history, Europe's heavily armored knights and Islam's jihadist light cavalry had their first major pitched battle, at Dorylauem, in Asia Minor. It had been two years since the First Crusade was called, and Europe's Christians,...

  • June 29, 2022

    The end of Islam in Córdoba

    Thanks to the efforts of King Ferdinand III of Castile — aka, Saint Ferdinand — today in history, on June 29, 1236, Córdoba, which after the eighth century Muslim conquest of Spain, had become one of the most important "abodes...

  • June 28, 2022

    Antioch: A Valiant Christian Victory Against Islam

    Today in history, June 28, 1098, witnessed a Crusader victory over the forces of Islam that, for those present, could only be interpreted as a miracle. As discussed here, on June 3, 1098, the Crusaders managed to liberate the ancient Christian cit...

  • June 19, 2022

    The Only Rape Where the Left Says Victim-Blaming Is Okay

    Swedish officials are warning Ukrainian women living in refugee centers not to dress in a way that might provoke men from "other cultures" — code for Muslim migrants, who, in Sweden, are mostly of the Somali variety — who reside...

  • June 17, 2022

    When Dracula Terrorized Muslim Terrorists

    Today—or rather, tonight—in history, Vlad the Impaler launched a midnight raid against Muslim invaders that would cause his name to live in eternity as Dracula, the terror of the night. The year was 1462.  Ottoman sultan Muhammad ...

  • June 15, 2022

    When Charlton Heston Shattered the Teeth of Islam

    Today in history witnessed one of the most remarkable feats in the long war between Islam and Christianity: the capitulation of the great Muslim kingdom of Valencia to the Spanish warlord Roderick (or Rodrigo) Díaz of Vivar — better know...

  • June 6, 2022

    The Battle of Damietta: Saint Louis's Greatest Victory over Islam

    Today in history, on June 6, Louis IX of France — better known to posterity as Saint Louis — scored a dramatic victory over Islam. It was late May 1249, and the Seventh Crusade had begun.  Louis and his army, which consisted ...

  • June 3, 2022

    Antioch: Christendom’s First Great Victory Over Islam

    Today in history, on June 3, 1098, one of Christendom’s greatest victories over the jihad took place: the liberation of the ancient Christian city of Antioch -- where the very word “Christian” was first coined (Acts 11:26) -- from u...

  • June 1, 2022

    This Octogenarian Priest Is the Bane of Islam

    What a world of difference there is between anti-Islamic polemics emanating from the secular West and those emanating from the religiously charged Arab world itself.  This is the thought I have whenever I watch Arabic-language programs and ...

  • May 27, 2022

    Was the Muslim Conquest of Spain Driven by Piety or Plunder?

    Recently, the Grand Imam of Al Azhar University, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, claimed that the seventh-century Muslim conquests of the mostly Christian majority Middle East and North Africa “were not conquests of colonization that rely on the methods...

  • May 25, 2022

    European Parliament Rejects Discussion on Christian Persecution

    Once again, a large governmental body has exposed itself as morally bankrupt if not wholly bereft of legitimacy.  On May 18, 2022, the European Parliament, one of the European Union's legislative bodies, rejected a proposal to discuss t...

  • May 18, 2022

    Why It’s So Hard to Pity Muslims

    How does one pity a group that itself regularly exhibits no pity or even mere tolerance for others?  This is the conundrum one faces when considering Muslim victim groups. Take the Rohingya, for instance, a Muslim people that primarily lived ...

  • May 11, 2022

    Facebook Censors Persecuted Christians

    Facebook is at it again -- censoring the (Christian) victims of violence and sexual abuse while covering up for their (Muslim) abusers. A few months ago, I wrote about how Facebook had variously “punished” and censored me for writing a...

  • May 6, 2022

    Head of Top Muslim University Offers Mind-Blowing Historical Whitewashing of Islam

    On April 24, the grand imam of Islam's most prestigious institution, Al Azhar, delivered an address before the heads of state, with Egyptian president al-Sisi sitting in the front row, during state-level celebrations of Laylat al-Qadr (the "...

  • May 3, 2022

    How the Koran Calls for the Murder of Christians

    On April 7, 2022, in Egypt, a Muslim man lunged at and viciously stabbed a Christian priest thrice in the neck with a knife; Fr. Arsenius Wadid died soon thereafter.  Although the murderer was instantly apprehended by passersby -- the crime was ...

  • April 27, 2022

    Ramadan: ‘A Month of Jihad, Conquest, and Victory’

    Speaking on the first day of Ramadan, April 1, 2022, Mahmoud al-Habbash, the Supreme Sharia Judge of the Palestinian Authority, extolled the jihads waged by the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, during Ramadan: How was this month [of Ramadan] in the l...

  • April 25, 2022

    Ramadan: When Muslims Revel in Islam’s Violent History

    During the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, Muslims fast, pray, engage in acts of piety and charity, and reminisce over warfare and bloodshed in the name of Islam. Virtually every Ramadan features various Islamic authorities, personages, and/or inst...

  • April 20, 2022

    Kafir: Islam’s True Views on Non-Muslims

    The popular Egyptian daily newspaper and website al-Masry al-Youm (“the Egyptian Today”) recently published a fatwa titled “What Is the Ruling on Selling Food to Infidels during the Daylight [Hours] of Ramadan?”  The fatw...

  • April 12, 2022

    Pope Francis Abandons Christ’s Cross to Appease Muslims

    Pope Francis is at it again. Although it is traditional for papal podiums to depict the crucifix, during his recent visit to the island of Malta, Pope Francis ditched the cross lest he offend Muslim migrants.  As the archdiocese of Malta openly ...

  • April 5, 2022

    Pope Francis: ‘There Is No Such Thing as a Just War!’

    Pope Francis, a leading advocate of Doormat Christianity, is at it again, trying to reverse nearly two millennia of Christian doctrine, by preaching total passivity -- even against violent aggression. On March 18, 2022, Francis declared before an ...

  • March 30, 2022

    ‘Islamophobia’ Is as Old as Islam

    The United Nations recently named March 15 -- also rather ominously known as the “Ides of March” -- as “the International Day to Combat Islamophobia.”  In doing so, they have accepted and seek to mandate the idea that wha...

  • March 22, 2022

    United Nations foists 'Islamophobia day' on the world

    It's official: The United Nations, following the Muslim world's lead, has formally accepted the concept of "Islamophobia," a move that will undoubtedly further paralyze any measures against Islamic aggression, or, in a word, jihad. ...

  • March 17, 2022

    The Reason Islam's So Keen on Hating Us

    A female German convert to Islam was recently sentenced to over seven years in prison.  The 44-year-old was found guilty of following her Palestinian husband in joining Islamic terror groups abroad, including the Islamic State in Syria....

  • February 24, 2022

    An In-Depth Look at Islam's Achilles Heel

    The history of Islam and the West has been one of unwavering antagonism and seismic clashes, often initiated by the followers of Muhammad.  By the standards of history, nothing between the two forces is as well documented as this long war....

  • February 14, 2022

    How COVID lockdowns inspire terrorists

    One of the main problems with overly stringent laws is that only some people will follow them, while others will ignore or even exploit them.  The result, all too often, is that law-abiding citizens will be put at a disadvantage vis-...

  • February 8, 2022

    Evidence: ISIS behind the Texas synagogue hostage crisis

    Another piece of evidence has emerged to indicate that the British Pakistani who recently stormed and held a Texas-based synagogue hostage was not just acting in accordance with jihadist ideology but following an ISIS directive. On Jan. 15, 2022, ...

  • February 3, 2022

    Do Muslim Women Get a Harem of 72 Sexy Studs in Heaven?

    If Muslim martyrs (AKA suicide bombers) are rewarded with 72 sex slaves in heaven, what do female martyrs get?  This age-old question was on recent display.  According to a Jan. 12 report, Maulana Sajid Rashidi, president of the A...

  • February 1, 2022

    Islamic directive condemns Western-style Muslim engagements

    Yet another example of how the average Muslim's lifestyle contradicts the draconian dictates of sharia was on recent display.  During a talk show that aired on January 16, 2022, a Muslim cleric, Dr. Salem Abdul Jalil, secretary of fatwa a...

  • January 26, 2022

    Emulating Islam: The Left’s War on the Christian Cross

    In many ways, the “secular Left” and Islam appear to be diametrically opposed: the Left is sexually promiscuous, Islam isn’t; the Left believes in countless genders, Islam doesn’t; the Left believes in all sorts of freedoms, I...

  • January 20, 2022

    Jesus Christ as Palestinian Terrorist

    Not only has Islam transformed Jesus Christ into a Muslim, and a “Palestinian” one at that; Palestinians are apparently trying to transform him into a “heroic martyr” -- a term often translated by those infidels on the receivi...

  • January 5, 2022

    Turkish TV series makes heroes out of Islamic terrorists

    Unlike their Western counterparts, many Muslims are fond of their heroes of the past — particularly the jihadist types who for centuries thrived on terrorizing the West. This was recently underscored by Barbaros: Sword of the Mediterranean, ...

  • December 21, 2021

    The Vulgarity of Islam’s Defenders

    In a video recently uploaded onto YouTube, Bahgat Saber, a Manhattan-based Muslim Brotherhood activist who enjoys life and liberty in the USA, exhibited two aspects that Muslims zealous over their religion often exhibit: extreme vulgarity and warped ...

  • December 16, 2021

    Egyptian Scholar Asks Reasonable Questions about Islam, Gets Arrested

    According to a Nov. 19, 2021 report, "an Egyptian court sentenced an 80-year-old-intellectual earlier this week to five years in prison over his remarks on the early Islamic conquests."  Ahmed Abdu' Maher, a high-profile lawye...

  • December 8, 2021

    Christianity: The #1 Recipient of Hate Crimes

    Hate crimes against Christianity and its followers in Europe — formerly and for centuries the guardian and disseminator of Christ's teachings — are at an all-time high.  According to a recent report, at least a quarter of al...

  • December 1, 2021

    Archaeological Evidence Pops Up for Historical Jihad

    A piece of history from the long war between Islam and Christendom was recently unearthed: a mass grave of 25 Crusaders who were attacked from behind and/or beheaded in the thirteenth century.  According to one report: A team of intern...

  • November 25, 2021

    RaymondIbrahim.com banned as a 'pornographic' website

    I recently discovered that some WiFi networks classify my website and ban it for being a "pornography site." While having to pass through the Los Angeles area earlier this month — the only Californian county that still mandates ind...

  • November 24, 2021

    The Liverpool Bombing: Islam’s Mindboggling Deceptions Exposed

    On November 14, 2021, a man detonated an improvised explosive device near the main entrance of Liverpool Women’s Hospital in England.  Only he died, though the taxi driver who had just dropped him off was also injured.  Although he bo...

  • November 22, 2021

    A 'racist' jihad?

    Recently, during the night, four young Muslim migrants from Morocco appeared out of the darkness and surrounded a 30-year-old woman in northern Spain.  "Let's see how we destroy that beautiful face," they cried, before pu...

  • November 18, 2021

    Ten Years of Muslim Persecution of Christians

    July 2021 was the tenth anniversary of my monthly series, "Muslim Persecution of Christians" (published by the Gatestone Institute).  Back in July 2011, I began to collate and summarize the accounts of persecution that surfaced ev...

  • November 14, 2021

    ‘Yes, But’: Exposing the Heart of Islamic Apologetics

    “Yes, but…”  This has come to represent the heart of all Muslim apologetics.  Whenever an Islamic doctrine or principle is accused of promoting hatred, violence, misogyny, etc., its defenders rush to argue that, “Ye...

  • November 9, 2021

    The Jihad on Mimicry

    A group of young students in France is under severe threat from Muslims.  An Oct. 14, 2021 report has the details: Several Nantes high school students have been subjected to harassment and threats online for several days…  It al...

  • November 5, 2021

    Reporting on Muslim Persecution of Christians Offends Facebook's 'Standards'

    Apparently, reporting on the horrific persecution Christian minorities experience in the Muslim world is a punishable offense for Facebook, as that topic falls beneath the social media giant's "standards." That's what I was told ...

  • November 2, 2021

    How Islam Mutilates Christ

    Not only does Islam claim Abraham, Moses, and Jesus; it apparently claims post-biblical figures, such as Saint George, as well.  So states a recent article on My London, the real point of which is apparently to assert Christian and Muslim ...

  • October 20, 2021

    The Secret behind World History Is Capability

    In many ways, Columbus Day, which recently passed, has become emblematic not just of the accusation that Columbus was a racist who inaugurated a genocidal campaign against the natives, but a reminder that virtually all Europeans preceding the great e...

  • October 14, 2021

    Christopher Columbus fought jihad

    Another Columbus Day has come and gone.  Although it was "celebrated" with the usual vitriol and outraged "wokeism" concerning the Italian explorer's alleged "genocide" against the natives, one influential ...

  • September 30, 2021

    The Saladin Paradigm: Finding the ‘Good’ in Islamic Terrorists

    A “moderate” Muslim cleric and counter-terrorism advisor to the U.K. government was recently caught on film referring to Israel as a “terrorist state” and praising “martyrs”—jihadist code for suicide bombers....

  • September 27, 2021

    Why America Failed to ‘Win Hearts and Minds’ in Afghanistan

    In many ways, arrogant leftist thinking -- indeed, the leftist paradigm in its entirety -- led to the disaster that is Afghanistan. Many, especially those of Afghan background, have made this clear in the aftermath of America’s withdrawal....

  • September 17, 2021

    How the US failure in Afghanistan validates the Koran's jihadist teachings

    While it should be a no-brainer that the Taliban's victory in Afghanistan has emboldened like-minded (read: "radical") Muslims to no end, few in the West appreciate how this episode — especially America's disastrous retreat ...

  • August 31, 2021

    The Eternal Jihad

    Although August 15, 2021, will forever live in infamy as the date the Taliban reconquered Afghanistan, for over 13 centuries that date was famous for another event -- Constantinople’s defeat of the caliphate, August 15, 718.  While th...

  • August 26, 2021

    Without Jihad, the Nation of Turkey Wouldn't Exist

    Today in history, on August 26, 1071, one of the most decisive battles in all world history took place, that of Manzikert, without which there would be no modern nation of Turkey to speak of—much less centuries of jihadist conquests and atrocit...

  • August 16, 2021

    How Constantinople Saved Western Civilization from Islam

    This week in history, a large fleet transporting tens of thousands of jihadists across the Sea of Marmara was either drowned in a vicious sea-storm or engulfed in flames from a volcanic eruption. One year earlier, in August 717, these selfsame jih...

  • August 11, 2021

    Now Even Science Demonstrates Islamic Aggression

    Along with Islamic doctrine and history, one can now add science -- DNA itself -- to the list of things that demonstrate Islamic aggression.  Ancestry.com, a company that operates a network of genealogical and historical records, and provides...

  • August 3, 2021

    'Shark attacks' and the policing of language

    "Shark attacks" is the latest phrase the censors have decided you cannot use, as it unfairly "demonizes" the apex predator. According to a July 20 New York Times article titled "Don't Call Them 'Shark Att...

  • July 29, 2021

    The Battle of Jaffa: When 2,000 Knights Defeated 20,000 Muslims

    This week in history witnessed a small band of Christian knights terrify and brutally defeat a massive horde of Muslims -- at the Battle of Jaffa. On July 27, 1192, Saladin, the great hero sultan of Islam, surrounded and besieged the tiny Christia...

  • July 22, 2021

    The Siege of Belgrade and the Church Bells of Noon

    Today in history, on July 22, 1456, the West scored one of its greatest victories over the jihad. Three years after conquering Constantinople, the Ottoman Sultan, Muhammad II, at the head of over 100,000 Turks, marched towards the strategic fortre...

  • July 16, 2021

    The Epic Battle that Liberated Christian Spain from Islam

    Today in history, on July 16, 1212, an epic battle between Christians and Muslims took place -- one that the Islamic State still vows vengeance for -- presaging the demise of Islam in Spain, five hundred years after Muhammad’s followers first i...

  • July 13, 2021

    How Google Translate deceives you

    It's no secret that Google aggressively censors anything and everything that contradicts the left's narrative.  Most, for example, know — or should know — that Google search results yield only what it wants you to see,...

  • July 10, 2021

    France Learns about Islam’s 1,400 Year Assault

    Raymond Ibrahim’s 2018 book, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West, was recently translated into French and published in France.  In connection, Arnaud Imatz of the French website La Nef, interviewed him....

  • July 7, 2021

    Islam’s Poisonous Projections onto Infidels

    The recent execution of a Christian man by Muslim terrorists in Sinai showcased a little-known but interesting fact: the reason so many “radical” Muslims target innocent “infidels” is often based on projection, a word defined ...

  • June 23, 2021

    Pope Francis's awkward war on walls

    Pope Francis wants any and all walls, real or figurative, that stand between the West and Islam broken down immediately — or so he's constantly saying. Most recently, on Sunday, June 13, 2021, he called for the "growth of a more sup...

  • June 23, 2021

    The genocidal jihad on African Christians: A byproduct of economics?

    All throughout sub-Saharan Africa — in Nigeria, Mozambique, the Central African Republic, Mali, the Democratic Republic of Congo — Muslims are terrorizing and slaughtering Christians, and have been for many years now. Nor is there any ...

  • June 15, 2021

    Oppressed Palestinians or Potentially Oppressive Terrorists?

    Why do Palestinians, who present themselves as victims of land-grabbing Israeli oppressors, extol and find inspiration in the land-grabbing oppressors of history?  On April 16, 2021, Al Jazeera published an article by ‘Adnan A...

  • June 7, 2021

    Biden supports 'guilty' Muslims, ignores 'innocent' Christians

    On May 16, President Biden issued a brief video ostensibly dedicated to expressing his support for the religious freedom of "all" people (though in reality dedicated to only one religious group): All people should be abl...

  • May 31, 2021

    The Hagia Sophia: A 'Center of Knowledge about Islam'?

    Last summer, Turkish authorities transformed Hagia Sophia ("Holy Wisdom") — which was originally built, and for a millennium functioned, as one of Christendom's greatest cathedrals — into a mosque (again).  On that...

  • May 28, 2021

    Spain Relives Its Ancient History with Islam

    Spain is reliving its ancient history with Islam. Ongoing reports indicate that Muslim migrants from North Africa are illegally entering and flooding Spanish territory.  In just 2020, 23,000 migrants invaded Spain's Canary Islands, r...

  • May 14, 2021

    The Christian Siege of Muslim Nicaea

    Today in history, on May 14, 1097, witnessed the first clash between Western Crusaders and Muslim Turks: the siege of Nicaea. In the years following the decisive Battle of Manzikert (1071), which saw the Seljuk Turks defeat the Eastern Roman Empir...

  • May 11, 2021

    The 'Repentant Jihadi' Scam

    The degree to which Muslim terrorists can feign remorse for their crimes and convincingly pretend to have reformed — while secretly despising and plotting to murder non-Muslims — was recently underscored. After his prison evaluators ha...

  • May 5, 2021

    Islam's temper tantrums

    During recent court hearings in the U.K., a pair of Islamic terrorists threw temper tantrums and resorted to asinine name-calling.  They are Hashem Abedi, who was found guilty of "22 counts of murder, attempted murder and plotting to c...

  • April 28, 2021

    Islamic State Cites 'Grievances,' Claims Victimhood against Murdered Christians

    The Islamic State in Sinai recently executed another Christian on video.  In a clip recorded before the execution, the slain Copt, Nabil H. Salama, 62, "confessed" to his crime: building the only church in Bir al-Abd in Sinai ...

  • April 20, 2021

    Islamic State executes Coptic Christian man on video

    In a video released last Saturday, April 17, Muslims connected to the Islamic State executed a Coptic Christian man in Sinai, Egypt.  The slain was identified as 62-year-old Nabil Habashi Salama.  In the video, Salama appears o...

  • April 8, 2021

    Was the Capitol Building attack a form of jihad?

    Was the Capitol building attack — where one police officer was killed and another injured — last Good Friday by Noah Green, a Nation of Islam member, a jihad attack? Most would say no: the Nation of Islam, they would argue, is a hetero...

  • April 5, 2021

    Migrants are Islam's 'eye' on the West

    Not only are Muslims living in the West supposed to hate their "infidel" host nations and neighbors, but they are supposed to spy on them by serving as Islam's "eye" on the West. As discussed here, numerous online...

  • March 30, 2021

    Muslim Rape and Willful Blindness

    Four Muslim migrants from North Africa gang-raped a 36-year-old woman on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria, after she stopped to ask how she could help them.  According to the March 3 report, The alleged victim is believed to have lived on...

  • March 24, 2021

    Muslim Soldiers Executing Their Christian Comrades

    Muslim soldiers are killing their Christian comrades in arms — apparently because the latter, as "infidels," are already the enemy.  Most recently, in Nigeria, a Muslim colonel stole weapons from an armory and then blamed th...

  • March 11, 2021

    Islamic State seeks revenge against Spain's 'Moor-Slayer'

    Twenty twenty-one could be a particularly "dangerous" year for Spain, thanks to Islamic State terrorists posing as migrants entering via Europe with "instructions" to attack, among other targets, churches.  A report high...

  • March 2, 2021

    Church Desecration in Europe Under Islam

    A few days after Muslim migrants firebombed an 800-year-old Swedish church twice over the course of four days -- once on Jan. 20, 2021 and another on Jan. 24 -- a Feb 4 report came out saying that 829 “hate crimes” against churches in Swe...

  • February 24, 2021

    Vatican Papal Academy Sells Out the Virgin Mary for Muhammad

    The same folks to bring you "Abrahamism"—the idea that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are intricately connected—have narrowed their sights on promoting Mary, the mother of Christ, as "a Jewish, Christian and Muslim woman,...

  • February 17, 2021

    Britain: A Sanctuary for Deadly Islamic Terrorists

    Once again, the U.K. shows itself to be a safe haven for Islamic terrorists.  According to a Feb. 14, 2021 report, A terrorist who claimed asylum in Britain after he was sentenced to death in Egypt for a failed assassination plot ...

  • February 16, 2021

    Qatar calls on Muslim migrants to hate their Western benefactors

    Imagine if a U.S. governmental agency told all Americans who live abroad that they are obligated to hate the nations hosting them. That's precisely what the Muslim nation of Qatar (a "U.S. friend and ally") is doing.  Accor...

  • February 9, 2021

    Wishful Thinking Surrounds Bombing of Historic Swedish Church

    Twice over the course of four days, an 800-year-old church in Stockholm was firebombed.  On Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021, several Molotov cocktails were hurled at the 12-century Spånga church, which is located in a Muslim majority area.  ...

  • February 5, 2021

    Britain’s ‘Jihad Seeker’s Allowance’

    Few relationships feature one party that freely gives and another party that only takes as blatantly as the relationship between the West and Islam.  Thus, according to a Feb. 1, 2021 report, “The British taxpayer has shelled out over ...

  • February 1, 2021

    The ‘How to Reform Islam’ Sales Pitch

    The purveyors of “moderate Islam” increasingly come off as salesmen: after describing their “customer’s” problem with great accuracy, they present their “product” as the solution -- without much in the w...

  • January 28, 2021

    Islam's greatest university clutches pearls when archbishop says Muslims are 'people of war'

    Al Azhar, the Muslim world's most prestigious if not authoritative Islamic university, recently blasted Jerome, the archbishop of Athens and all Greece, for saying during a January 14 interview that: "Islam, its people, is not a reli...

  • January 13, 2021

    Western Strength or Softness: Which Do Muslims Respect?

    Does holding Islam accountable provoke anger, resentment, and violence from Muslims?  And does the opposite — pandering to and appeasing Muslims — win their appreciation, respect, and cooperation? Far too many in the West are...

  • December 25, 2020

    How Islam deified tribalism

    Aside from its religious veneer, Islam can easily be defined and understood by one wholly areligious word: tribalism — the bane of any democratic or pluralistic society. The fact is, the entire appeal of Muhammad's call to the Arabs of h...

  • December 12, 2020

    Should Blanket Trust be Granted Muslims?

    In a longwinded article titled “Hidden Enemies: An American History of Taqiyya” for Cabinet magazine, the author, “Joshua Craze” -- an apparent pseudonym for a self-identified Muslim man -- predictably downplays the dange...

  • December 2, 2020

    Muslims Invoke Christian Theology to Disarm Christians

    Past and present, one of the least known -- and, until the modern era, largely futile -- tactics used by Muslims to disarm Christians has been to insist that Christianity is against warfare and violence in general. The most recent Muslim to take o...

  • November 29, 2020

    Jihadi Hate or Territorial Dispute?

    Although the recent conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan has been presented as a “territorial dispute,” something else -- namely religious animosity, or that old Islamic hate for infidels --has permeated it. For example, several rep...

  • November 21, 2020

    Another Christian Country Makes a Doomed Peace with Islam

    "Peace" was recently achieved between Armenia and Azerbaijan, who had been fighting for nearly two months, after the Christian nation agreed to cede its ancestral lands in Artsakh to its Muslim neighbor. From a temporal and myopic point ...

  • November 19, 2020

    Another Doomed Peace with Islam

    "Peace" was recently achieved between Armenia and Azerbaijan, who had been fighting for nearly two months, after the Christian nation agreed to cede its ancestral lands in Artsakh to its Muslim neighbor. From a temporal and myopic point ...

  • October 28, 2020

    How a Fiercely Christian Nation Became Fanatically Islamic

      One of the benefits of Adel Guindy’s new book, A Sword Over the Nile: A Brief History of the Copts Under Islamic Rule, is that it implicitly answers an important question: how and why did non-Muslim nations become Islamic?  In th...

  • October 23, 2020

    The Gruesome Battle of Sagrajas: Muslims Worship Allah Atop 2,400 Decapitated Christian Heads

    Today in history, a battle that radical Muslims of the ISIS variety all but venerate took place between Muslims and Christians in Spain, or al-Andalus. Context: In 1085, Alfonso VI of Leon-Castile captured the Muslim city of Toledo, thereby formal...

  • October 13, 2020

    Did an 'Islamophobe' discover America?

    Christopher Columbus — that "genocidal madman and racist," as he's better known among the "woke" crowd, many of whom have targeted his monuments — is back in the news, this time for his alleged "Islamophobia....

  • October 10, 2020

    The Battle of Tours: When the West 'Manfully Resisted' Islam

    Today in history, on October 10, 732, an epic battle saved Western Europe from becoming Islamic.  Precisely one hundred years after the death of Islam’s prophet Muhammad in 632 -- a century which had seen the conquest of thousands of sq...

  • October 7, 2020

    The Battle of Lepanto: When Turks Skinned Christians Alive for Refusing Islam

    Today in history, on October 7, 1571, one of the most cataclysmic clashes between Islam and the West — one where the latter for once crushed and humiliated the former — took place.  In 1570, Muslim Turks — in the guise of th...

  • October 2, 2020

    Muslim Leader Demands 'Reparations' for Spanish Inquisition

    Recently we learned that Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad al-Qasimi, member of the Supreme Council of the UAE and ruler of Sharjah, called for the transformation of the Cathedral of Cordoba back to the Mosque of Cordoba, since Spain's Christians ...

  • September 25, 2020

    'Pride was Their Downfall': How Muslims Routed Christians at Nicopolis

    Today in history, on September 25, 1396, a major military encounter with Islam that demonstrated just how disunited Christendom had become took place. In 1394, the Ottoman Turks "were doing great injury to Hungary," causing its young kin...

  • September 21, 2020

    In Pictures: Islam's Sexual Enslavement of White Women

    Warning: Orientalist paintings depicting female nudity follow. Last year, a political party in Germany provoked controversy when it used the following painting in its election campaign to illustrate one of the reasons it was against immigration. ...

  • September 18, 2020

    Usul al-Fiqh: The (Misunderstood) Key to Islamic Fanaticism

    An interesting but little remarked upon linguistic distortion may hold the key to understanding the Muslim mentality. Whoever undertakes a deeper study of Islam must early on encounter the Arabic term u盪｣ﾅｫl al-fiqh, which is almost always transla...

  • September 8, 2020

    Battle of Kulikovo: Russian Liberation from the Muslim Horde

    Today in history, on September 8, 1380, Russia began its long march to liberation from the Tatar yoke, by way of a battle that is as important to Russian history as the battles of Tours and Vienna are to the West. Although pagan when they conquere...

  • August 26, 2020

    Battle of Manzikert: The ‘Subjugation of Christianity by Islam’

    Today, on August 26, 1071, one of history’s most decisive battles took place at Manzikert, initiating the creation of the modern state of Turkey atop formerly Christian Asia Minor. The story, which follows, is instructive. In 1019, ...

  • August 20, 2020

    Yarmuk: The Forgotten but 'Most Consequential' Encounter between Islam and the West

    Today in history, on August 20, 636, arguably the single most consequential battle between Islam and the West took place, that of Yarmuk.  Not only did it decide whether the Arabian creed thrived or died; it became a chief source of inspira...

  • August 18, 2020

    Trump: Christians treated 'horribly,’ 'very unfairly' in Middle East

    According to President Donald Trump, Christians in the Middle East are being treated in a manner that is "beyond disgraceful," and Christianity is being "treated horribly and very unfairly, and it's criminal."  He sa...

  • August 15, 2020

    When Hagia Sophia Defied Islam (and Saved Western Civilization)

    Turkey has repeatedly made clear — most recently by transforming Constantinople's chief cathedral, the Hagia Sophia, back into a mosque — that few things in Islamic history are more glorious than the jihadi conquest of Constantinople,...

  • August 7, 2020

    Jihadi Murderers Feign ‘Reform’

    Jihadis continue to tell infidels what they wish to hear, and the latter continue to eat it up -- to their own, often fatal, detriment. This is one of the findings of a July 22, 2020 study titled “Prisons and Terrorism” in Western Euro...

  • August 4, 2020

    Islam's Heavenly Whores: Jihad's Biggest Motivator

    According to a July 22, 2020 article on PMW: Since the Palestinian Authority started its terror campaign — the second Intifada — in 2000, it has been promising terrorist Martyrs that as Muslims they will be rewarded in Paradise with ...

  • July 31, 2020

    A Sword Over the Nile: New Book Exposes 14 Centuries of Christian Persecution

    February 2015 was the first time many in the West had heard of the Copts, Egypt's indigenous, Christian inhabitants.  Then the Islamic State published what subsequently went viral — a gory video of its jihadi members savagely carv...

  • July 24, 2020

    'Dead Wrong': Marxist Historian Calls Jihad a 'Myth'

    An especially stark example of how Leftists thrive on distorting history -- a tactic pivotal to their very being -- recently appeared.  In a video titled “Dead Wrong: The Anti-Muslim Myth,” Johan Norberg, a senior fellow at the Cato ...

  • July 21, 2020

    Turkey Honors a Slaver, Terrorist, and Pedophile

    While in the United States monuments to heroic Americans of a former age -- including abolitionists who died fighting slavery -- get toppled and dishonored, a land-grabber, mass-slaver, terrorist, and pedophile -- Ottoman sultan Muhammad II (1432-148...

  • July 15, 2020

    Hagia Sophia: Turkish Propaganda vs. Documented History

    Millions of Orthodox and other Christians around the world were either shocked, angered, and/or saddened to learn recently that Turkey has just approved of transforming the Hagia Sophia museum — which was originally built, and for a millennium ...

  • July 9, 2020

    Thomas Jefferson: Good or Evil Based on the Left's Agenda

    Before the "progressive" Left began tearing down Thomas Jefferson's statues, they tried to use his name to their advantage.  To understand this, we must first go back to the Christian world's original contact — or rath...

  • June 18, 2020

    Shooting the (Infidel) Messenger

    Whether it’s true or not, if you say the “wrong” thing about Islam, you’re guilty -- even if you’re merely quoting what Muslims themselves say. Consider the recent case of Professor Nicholas Damask, chairman of the De...

  • June 15, 2020

    Today in History: Islam Ascends a European Field of Carrion

    Today, June 15, 1389, a pivotal military encounter between Islam and the West took place: the battle of Kosovo.  In its wake, Islam became a dominant force in Eastern Europe, subjugating much of the Balkans 'til the early twentieth cent...

  • June 10, 2020

    It's Your Fault They Turn to Violence!

    According to the media narrative, whatever unpleasant behavior a person or group is engaging in — from criminal and gang activity to sheer terrorism — if you're white and the other party is not, that proves that the behavior is entire...

  • June 5, 2020

    When Islam Came: The Rape of Constantinople

    Last Friday, May 29, was the 567th anniversary of the Islamic conquest of Constantinople, one of ancient Christianity's greatest capitals that for the previous seven centuries had, as Europe's easternmost bulwark, withstood Islam.  ...

  • June 3, 2020

    Who Is Truly 'Terrorized': America's Blacks or Islam's Christians?

    Two themes permeate much of the discourse surrounding ongoing riots: that racism in America, particularly against blacks, is "systemic" and that any show of force against the "protesters" — many of whom are simply criminals,...

  • May 29, 2020

    Today in History: Sword of Islam Conquers Ancient Christian Capital

    Today in history, on May 29, 1453, the sword of Islam conquered Constantinople.  Of all Islam's conquests of Christian territory, this was by far the most symbolically significant.  Not only was Constantinople a living and dir...

  • May 28, 2020

    The 'Mustard Seed' that Grew to Liberate Christian Spain from Muslim Rule

    Nearly thirteen hundred years ago today, on May 28, 722[i], a little known but profoundly important battle was waged that set the tone for the next eight hundred years of Christian-Muslim "coexistence" in Spain: the Battle of Covadonga....

  • May 21, 2020

    Islam’s Sexual Fantasies

    Speaking under the pseudonym of “Ella,” a British woman recently revealed that her Muslim rapists called her “a white wh*re, and a white b*tch,” during the more than 100 times she was raped in her youth by the mostly Pakistani...

  • May 18, 2020

    The 'Image of Hell': Islam's Siege of Malta

    Today in history, May 18, 1565, one of the most symbolically important military encounters between Islam and Europe began: the Ottoman Turks besieged the tiny island of Malta, in what till then was considered the heaviest bombardment any locale had b...

  • May 15, 2020

    Raping and Impregnating Infidels: ‘Another Form of Jihad’

    Because more numbers equate more power and influence, Muslims from all walks of life have made clear that the act of procreating is a form of jihad.  Thus,  in the U.K., “Muslim hate fanatics plan to take over Britain by having more b...

  • May 11, 2020

    How and Why Muslims Delude Themselves about Islam

    Egypt's leading Muslim cleric and sheikh, Dr. Ahmed al-Tayeb — also known as Pope Francis's "wolf in sheep's clothing" — recently asserted a demonstrable falsehood.  On April 30, 2020, during his televised ...

  • May 1, 2020

    Trump Exposes the ‘Great Disparity’: Islam Good, Judaism and Christianity Bad

    Ramadan is upon us, and many Americans -- not least the millions who were denied church access during Easter -- are wondering: will mosques experience the same ban or will the usual double standard prevail? Among those wondering is America’s...

  • April 28, 2020

    Camel urine: Islam's 'best cure' for coronavirus

    Muslim advocacy for drinking camel urine is back in the news, this time in connection with the coronavirus, which is especially ironic if not deadly, as will be explained.  An "Islamic medicine specialist" and director of a religi...

  • April 21, 2020

    How the ‘Evil Called Barack Obama’ Enabled the Genocide of Nigerian Christians

    Not only is Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari behind what several international observers are calling a “genocide” of Christians in his nation, but Barack Hussein Obama played a major role in the Muslim president’s rise to po...

  • April 15, 2020

    Is post COVID-19 America poised to ban tobacco, junk food, and alcohol?

    The official reason for the unprecedented closure of much of the United States in response to COVID-19 is that lives matter.  Indeed, lives apparently matter so much that no sacrifice is too great — including to our freedoms and the e...

  • April 8, 2020

    Muslims deny aid to Christians and 'infidels' during COVID-19

    Crises often have a way of revealing people's true natures.  Here in America, for instance, doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals have stepped above and beyond the call of duty in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

  • April 4, 2020

    How 'Triggerism' Replaced Factualism on Islam

    One upon a time, whenever two or more parties disagreed, the logical thing for them to do was resort to argumentation.  It was not enough to say, "I'm right and you're wrong" (unless they were children).  The win...

  • March 30, 2020

    American Historians Present Jihadi Terrorists as Western Allies

    Considering that Muslims have at times allied with Europeans, sometimes even against fellow Muslims, why present Muslim attacks on Europe throughout history as ideologically driven — as jihads ("holy wars") against the infidel? ...

  • March 21, 2020

    Are Muslims Immune to Coronavirus?

    The Islamic world is not suffering from COVID-19 the way non-Muslim nations are, because Islam naturally makes Muslims "cleaner" than infidels.  Such is the contention Muslims around the world are triumphantly making.  Thu...

  • March 6, 2020

    The conclusion: How US Army War College finally handled anti-Islamist speech

    On February 26, 2020, I spoke at the U.S. Army War College's Heritage and Education Center in Carlisle, Pa.  The title (and topic) of my talk was lifted from my last book: Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and ...

  • February 24, 2020

    Terror-Linked Islamic Activists Renew Protests against Free Speech at U.S. Army War College

    True to form, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (“CAIR”) -- also known as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the largest terrorist funding case in U.S. history, and a designated “terrorist organization”...

  • February 20, 2020

    CAIR foiled: Raymond Ibrahim to speak at US Army War College next week

    I  am scheduled to lecture about my book, Sword and Scimitar, at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle Barracks next week.  As American Thinker readers may remember, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) fought har...

  • February 16, 2020

    Islamic reform? Top Muslim university says no

    Largely unknown to and unreported in the West, a large, two-day conference was recently hosted (Jan. 27–28) by Al Azhar University in Egypt and attended by the leading clerics and politicians from 46 nations.  Titled "Renewal in ...

  • February 6, 2020

    Islam's Hidden Role in the Transatlantic Slave Trade

    From its inception, Islam's history with the West has been one of unwavering antagonism and seismic clashes, often initiated by the former.  By the standards of history, nothing between the two civilizations is as well documented as thi...

  • February 1, 2020

    The Muslim World's Inferiority Complex

    Muslims around the world are thrilled at the recent news: "Harvard University ranks the Koran as the best book on justice" is the January 20, 2020 headline of a report published by Youm7, a popular Egyptian news site visited ...

  • January 30, 2020

    Palestinian Liberation or Islamic Conquest?

    What drives Muslim animus for Israel: brotherly love for "oppressed" Palestinians or religious hatred for "infidel" Jews?  A recent incident in Jerusalem goes a long way in answering this question.  Hizb al-Tahrir ...

  • January 17, 2020

    Muslim Deceit and the Burden of Proof

    In his recent defense of the Islamic doctrine of taqiyya (dismantled here), Usama Hasan of the UK think tank Quilliam made the following admission: It is true that hardened islamist terrorists, such as the Al-Qaeda & ISIS supporter Usman Kha...

  • December 11, 2019

    No More Swords in the West, Only Scimitars

    “If Islam is terrorizing the West today, that is not because it can, but because the West allows it to. For no matter how diminished, a still swinging Scimitar will always overcome a strong but sheathed Sword.” Those are the very last ...

  • December 7, 2019

    Jihad and Criminality: Inseparable Bedfellows

    It’s official: Islamic jihad and generic criminality are intimately connected.   According to an earlier UK study: The lines between terrorism and criminality are becoming blurred as an increasing number of former criminals join the ...

  • November 26, 2019

    Understanding the Islam/West Narrative

    Any honest and objective appraisal of Islam’s historic jihad on the Christian world is eye-opening, to say the very least.  In the first century of its existence (between 632-732) Islam permanently conquered, Arabized, and Islamized nearly...

  • November 14, 2019

    The Other Genocide of Christians

    One of the most refreshing aspects of Resolution 296 -- which acknowledges the Armenian Genocide, and which the House recently overwhelmingly voted for -- is that it does not exclude those other peoples who also suffered a genocide under the Ottoman ...

  • November 1, 2019

    Ilhan Omar's Anti-American, Pro-Islamic Polemic

    Last week the House voted overwhelmingly (405-11) in favor of formally recognizing the Armenian Genocide, which was perpetrated by Ottoman Turks.  Among those miniscule few to vote “present,” thereby abstaining from voting, was Minne...

  • August 2, 2019

    10 congressmen hit Army War College with letter decrying surrender to CAIR

    In the following letter, written and delivered to the commandant of the U.S. Army War College, ten members of Congress share their "grave concern" that the USAWC "capitulated to the unfounded claims of CAIR [concerning me and my book],...

  • July 15, 2019

    Why Eastern Europeans Fear Islam: The Siege of Vienna, 1683

    “Austria acts against Muslims almost every day because of their subconscious fear of Turks,” writes Turkish historian Erhan Afyoncu in the Daily Sabah.  “Austrians have not forgotten the fear and their emperor’s escape in...

  • July 4, 2019

    Remembering Islam's July 4th Victory

    Soon after liberating the ancient Christian city of Antioch from Muslim oppression, the First Crusaders managed in 1099 to realize their primary goal: take Jerusalem from Islam. Despite all the propaganda that surrounds the conquest of Jerusa...

  • June 26, 2019

    National Assn of Scholars backs Raymond Ibrahim against Muslim pressure group in open letter to President Trump

    The National Association of Scholars (NAS), "the leading organization of scholars and citizens committed to higher education as the catalyst of American freedom," has come forth in my support and written an open letter to the president of t...

  • June 15, 2019

    The 630 Year-Old Reason Eastern Europeans Dislike Islam

    Why Eastern Europeans are much more reluctant to accept Muslim migrants than their Western counterparts can be traced back to circumstances surrounding a pivotal battle, that of Kosovo, which took place today, June 15, exactly 630 years ago today in ...

  • June 14, 2019

    US Army War College Surrenders to CAIR

    The U.S. Army War College (USAWC) surrendered to the demands of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) — an "unindicted co-conspirator," to quote the U.S. Dept. of Justice, in the largest terror funding case in American...

  • June 11, 2019

    CAIR 'Demands' US Army War College Cancel My Lecture on Islamic History

    The "unindicted co-conspirator" Council on American-Muslim Relations ("CAIR") and its Islamist allies are "outraged" because the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa. has invited me to give a lecture on my recent book,...

  • June 7, 2019

    Islam's War on the Christian Cross

    A Muslim migrant in Rome recently stabbed a Christian man in the throat for wearing a crucifix around his neck.  The assailant, a 37-year-old Moroccan, is accused of attempted homicide; "religious hate" is cited as an ...

  • May 29, 2019

    Islam's Greatest Victory: The Fall of Constantinople

    Of all of Islam’s conquests of Christian territory, the most symbolically significant occurred today, on May 20, 1453, when Constantinople fell.  For not only was “New Rome” a living and direct extension of the ancient Roman Em...

  • May 22, 2019

    Two Scandinavian journalists expose the West's demise from 'weak Christianity'

    The following brief but highly informative interview, titled "Europe: Deep Spiritual Crisis," appeared earlier this year on Herland Report TV.  The host, Hanne Nabintu Herland, a Norwegian historian of religions and a jo...

  • May 16, 2019

    Islamic Sex Slavery Painting Stirs International Controversy

    An American museum is vociferously calling on a German political party to stop using one of the former's paintings in the latter's campaign poster for the European elections. Titled "Slave Market" and painted by a Frenchman in 18...

  • May 4, 2019

    The Forgotten Armenian Genocide of 1019 AD

    Last April 24 was Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.  Millions of Armenians around the world remembered how the Islamic Ottoman Empire killed — often cruelly and out of religious hatred — some 1.5 million of their ancestors...

  • April 5, 2019

    Evil Medieval Christians or Islam's Victims Retaliating?

    Citing history -- or, as shall be seen, pseudohistory -- is one of the main ways Islam’s apologists try to ennoble the creed and its adherents.  As a sort of counterbalance to purportedly noble Muslims, medieval Christians are regularly pr...

  • March 26, 2019

    America’s 233-Year-Old Shock at Jihad

    Exactly 233 years ago this week, two of America’s founding fathers documented their first exposure to Islamic jihad in a letter to Congress; like many Americans today, they too were shocked at what they learned.  Context: in 1785, Musli...

  • March 8, 2019

    Christian Martyrs of Islamic Jihad: An Ongoing Phenomenon

    Last February 15 marked the four-year anniversary of the martyrdom of 21 Christians -- 20 Coptic Orthodox from Egypt and one Ghanaian.  It was commemorated by several groups, including Coptic Solidarity, which summarized the event in a February ...

  • February 9, 2019

    Islam: The West's 'Most Formidable and Persistent Enemy'

    At the height of Western dominance over Islam in the early twentieth century, the European historian Hilaire Belloc (b. 1870) made a remarkably prescient observation that may have seemed exaggerated at the time: Millions of modern people of the ...

  • November 21, 2018

    When Muslims Rape European White Women, Whose Fault Is It?

    European women are to blame for being raped by Muslim men.  Such is the latest position – the latest apologia – being offered by those dedicated to exonerating undesirable Muslim behavior, particularly in the context of acceptin...

  • August 14, 2018

    The Martyrs of Otranto: Lessons from Christian Victims of Jihad

    A little remembered event that occurred 538 years ago today – the ritual decapitation of 800 Christians who refused Islam – sheds much light on modern questions concerning the ongoing conflict between Islam and the West. Context: Thoug...

  • July 18, 2018

    History Explains Eastern European Hostility to Islam

    Why have several Eastern European nations been so adamant against taking in Muslim migrants?  Most recently, when Polish lawmaker Dominik Tarczyński was asked earlier this month how many "refugees" Poland has taken in, h...

  • May 8, 2018

    Why Pope Francis's Call to Ban Weapons Would Destroy the West

      What would happen if the world took Pope Francis's advice (via a tweet)? "Do we really want peace?  Then let's ban all weapons so we don't have to live in fear of war," said the pontiff. Do we really want ...

  • April 19, 2018

    Empowering Islam by Rewriting History

    Although the conflict between Islam and the West is not an aberration, but a continuation of history, the strategy of those who seek to whitewash and thus empower Islam is to fixate on peaceful aberrations while suppressing the continuum of hostility...

  • March 3, 2017

    The Slaughter of Egypt’s Christians

    Yet another murderous wave is taking Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority by storm, leading to yet another exodus from their homes. Last week in al-Arish, Sinai, Islamic State affiliates killed a 65-year-old Christian man by shooting him in the...

  • February 16, 2017

    What if Trump treated Muslims as Muslims treat ‘infidels’?

    As American liberals and leftists continue to portray Donald Trump's immigration ban on seven Muslim nations in the worst possible terms – from "racist" to "Islamophobic" – and as Muslim activists continue to claim...

  • February 11, 2017

    From the Mouth of Muhammad: 'Allah Will Wed Me to the Virgin Mary'

    At a time when Western people are constantly warned to speak respectfully of Muhammad, or else offended Muslims might respond with violence – to the shame and blame of those who exercise their freedom of expression – consider what Muslims...

  • January 28, 2017

    The Christian God loves sexual immorality (say Muslims)

    In keeping with ongoing revelations of just how immoral some Muslims consider Christianity – to one cleric, Christian church worship is worse than murder and bloodshed – here is another Muslim cleric who appeared on an Arabic-la...

  • January 15, 2017

    Enslaved, Tortured, and Sacrificed: Islam's Child Soldiers

    Past and present, Muslim militants continue relying on the same inhumane tactics to terrorize "infidels."  The devastating effects of one of these occurred last August in Turkey: a child "recruited" by the Islamic State blew ...

  • January 8, 2017

    Muslim Persecution of Christians

    Muslim attacks on Christian churches are on the rise all around the world -- including in America. The worst occurred last month when a bomb exploded in Egypt’s St. Peter’s Cathedral, killing 28, mostly women and children. Preliminary inv...

  • November 26, 2016

    Islam's Celestial Women: Muslim Men Die for Them, Muslim Women Envy Them

    Last month, when the battle for Mosul began, Islamic State "caliph" Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi reportedly promised four extra Houris (supernatural, celestial women designed for sexual purposes) – atop the other 72 promised by the prophet Mu...

  • November 20, 2016

    Islam's Jihad on the Christian Cross

    What more evidence is needed to prove that Islam is at war with Christianity than its well documented hatred for the quintessential symbol of Christianity: the cross?  This recently occurred to me as I was surfing Arabic-language videos and w...

  • November 3, 2016

    The Psycho and Pseudo-Jihad

    Whenever Muslims engage in behavior that ostensibly contradicts Islam – from doing recreational drugs and watching porn to killing fellow Muslims – Islam's apologists loudly proclaim, "Aha, see, they're not true Muslims!...

  • October 14, 2016

    Hungary: Help Persecuted Christians, Beware Muslims

    The nation of Hungary recently did something as unprecedented as it is commonsensical and humanitarian: it “has become the first government to open an office specifically to address the persecution of Christians in the Middle East and Europe....

  • October 5, 2016

    The Pope's song and dance with Islam

    Pope Francis recently made some ostensibly refreshing remarks.  During an early-morning Mass in memory of Fr. Jacques Hamel – the 85-year-old priest who was slaughtered by Muslims while conducting Mass in his church in France – Pope ...

  • September 30, 2016

    Islam's 'Western Liberal Values'?

    Recently, while touring the U.S. and Canada, London's first Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, "attacked anti-Muslim views and policies and argued that what is needed is to build 'bridges rather than walls' – a reference to Mr. Donald T...

  • September 23, 2016

    The true 'narrative fight': It's not just ISIS

    According to White House press secretary Josh Earnest, "When it comes to ISIL, we are in a fight – a narrative fight with them.  A narrative battle."  Earnest said this the day after two separate bombings occurred in New Yor...

  • September 4, 2016

    How Pope Francis Betrayed His Name

    When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio became the new Catholic pope in 2013, he chose the name of Francis to indicate that his pontificate would be one of mercy and compassion for the poor and needy.  Such is the reputation of his eponym, Sain...

  • August 25, 2016

    'Moderate'? Meet the World's 'Most Influential Muslim'

    There's nothing like knowing Arabic – that is, being privy to the Muslim world's internal conversations on a daily basis – to disabuse oneself of the supposed differences between so-called "moderate" and "radical...

  • August 19, 2016

    ISIS Exposes the True Reason Why It Hates the West

    An old (and tiresome) debate appears to have been settled by those best positioned to settle it.  According to Andrew Gripp, a former political science professor: Since 9/11, one of the defining fault lines in American and Western politics ...

  • August 12, 2016

    The Real Reason Trump’s ‘Second Amendment’ Comment Provoked Outrage

    What is the real reason behind all the “outrage” at Donald Trump’s Second Amendment comment? During a campaign rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, Trump said, “Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish the Secon...

  • August 9, 2016

    Only end results matter

    The most efficient way of solving a problem is to first break it down to its simplest parts – its bare-bone elements.  This was the ultimate point of a recent article, where I asserted: When it comes to the connection between Islam...

  • July 30, 2016

    Here's why Europe is plagued by Islamic terror

      In "an astonishingly savage tirade" – to quote from the U.K.'s Express – Hungary's Prime Minister Victor Orban recently tore into the European Union "over [Muslim] migration and taunted Angela Merkel for f...

  • July 25, 2016

    Mere Islam – not ISIS, refugees, or extremism – terrorized Munich

    A German-born 18-year-old of Iranian descent named Ali Sonboly went on a shooting spree last Friday.  He reportedly targeted young children, and a number of adolescents were among the nine he murdered. This incident is a reminder that the ong...

  • July 20, 2016

    MSM Spreads ISIS Propaganda: France Responsible for Being Terrorized

    After the Nice, France terror attack – where approximately 84 people were killed and hundreds injured – Western "mainstream media" is again in full damage control mode trying to rescue "the narrative" – namely, t...

  • July 12, 2016

    Do Pedophile Priests and Islamic Jihadis ‘Abuse’ Their Religions?

    While recently discussing how President Obama’s relationship to Islam is undermining U.S. security, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly offered up some strange analogies: Barack Obama has deep emotional ties to Islam. Now to some extent I ...

  • July 1, 2016

    Made in our image: The appeal of 'moderate Muslims'

    One of the greatest problems with the much cherished “moderate/radical” Muslim dichotomy is that it’s entirely based on Western assumptions that have nothing to do with the realities of Islam. This came out in a study published i...

  • May 28, 2016

    Muslims Beat, Strip Naked, and Parade 70-Year-Old Christian Woman

    A 70-year-old Christian woman was stripped naked, savagely beaten, and paraded in the streets of Egypt to jeers, whistles, and yells of "Allahu Akbar" after a mob of some 300 Muslim men descended on her house. Her crime?  Her son is...

  • May 22, 2016

    Pope Francis: Islam's Friend, Christianity's Foe?

    The man known as the pope and the vicar of Christ – but who in light of what follows is probably best referred to by his real name, Jorge Mario Bergoglio – recently gave an interview demonstrating why "so many people think he is the ...

  • April 19, 2016

    Will vs. Way Explains Islam vs. West

    In the ongoing struggle between Islam and the West, one important fact is regularly overlooked:  one civilization has the will to triumph, but not the way; the other has the way to triumph, but not the will.  Some who fear Islam do not s...

  • April 6, 2016

    Clinton’s ‘Values’ vs. Trump’s ‘Vulgarity’: Which Will Protect America from Jihad?

    Are U.S. presidents charged with protecting American lives or protecting American vanity -- especially when the two clash?  Put differently, what’s more important: our security or our ability to “feel good” about ourselves? ...

  • April 1, 2016

    The West’s War on Jihad Begins at Home

    As someone specializing in Islamic jihadism, one would expect I’d have much to say immediately after jihadi attacks of the sort that recently occurred in Brussels (35 killed), or San Bernardino (14 killed), or Paris (130). Ironically, I don...

  • March 25, 2016

    An Islamic Apocalypse in Brussels

    Islamic jihad struck Brussels Tuesday morning – first at Brussels Airport and then at a metro station 400 meters from EU headquarters – leaving at least 34 people dead and 230 injured.    It was an apocalyptic scene, accordin...

  • March 14, 2016

    You Better Believe 'Islam Hates Us'

    Donald Trump’s latest politically incorrect comment concerning Islam is much truer than most know.   After being asked last week on CNN if he believed the West was at war with Islam, the Republican presidential candidate simply sai...

  • February 28, 2016

    Islamic State Revives Historic Jihadi Tactics

    As Western politicians and other talking heads insist that the Islamic State ("ISIS") has "nothing whatsoever to do with Islam," not only does ISIS correctly implement Islamic law – whether by demanding jizya from subjugated...

  • February 12, 2016

    Sex: The Only Thing 'Infidel' Women Are Worth

    In word and deed, in Islamic and non-Islamic nations, Muslim men appear to think that non-Muslim women – impure "infidels" – exist solely to gratify their sexual urges. First, consider the beliefs and actions of those committ...

  • December 9, 2015

    'Muslim Grievance' Myth Returns After SB Massacre

    Another Islamic terrorist attack has taken place on American soil -- in San Bernardino, where 14 people were murdered -- and none other than international Islamism’s unindicted co-conspirator, CAIR, is saying it’s America’s fault. ...

  • December 3, 2015

    The Logic of Islamic Intolerance

    A sermon delivered by popular Saudi Sheikh Muhammad Salih al-Munajjid clearly demonstrates why Western secular relativists and multiculturalists -- who currently dominate media, academia, and politics -- are incapable of understanding, much less resp...

  • November 23, 2015

    Exposed: Obama's Love for Jihadis and Hate for Christians

    President Obama recently lashed out against the idea of giving preference to Christian refugees, describing it as "shameful."  "That's not American.  That's not who we are.  We don't have religious tests to o...

  • October 8, 2015

    Putin's Holy War vs. Obama's Jihad in Syria

    The Christian Orthodox Church, which holds an important place in an insurgent Russia, has described its government’s fight against the Islamic State and other jihadi opposition groups in Syria as a “holy war.” According to Vsevol...

  • September 21, 2015

    Listen to Nations Experienced with the Islamic Influx

    Some central and eastern European countries are being criticized by more “progressive” Western nations for not wanting to take in Muslim refugees.  Chief among them is Hungary, specifically in the person of Prime Minister Viktor O...

  • September 19, 2015

    Accepting Christian Refugees

    As refugees from the Middle East flood the West, a number of countries -- including Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Cyprus, and Australia -- are defying political correctness by wanting to accept Christian refugees only....

  • September 5, 2015

    Past and Present Persecution: Why Non-Muslims Convert to Islam

    What made non-Muslims convert to Islam, leading to the creation of the Islamic world?  Early historical sources -- both Muslim and non-Muslim --make clear that the Islamic empire was forged by the sword; that people embraced Islam, not so muc...

  • August 8, 2015

    Debate: Is ISIS Islamic?

    Frequent AT contributor Raymond Ibrahim recently debated two Muslims, including the U.K.'s notorious Anjem Choudary, via Skype on whether ISIS is Islamic.  Video below: ...

  • August 6, 2015

    Obama Administration Modifies U.S. Oath of Allegiance to Accommodate Muslims

    The Obama administration recently made changes to the Oath of Allegiance to the United States in a manner very conducive to Sharia, or Islamic law. On July 21, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced some “modificatio...

  • August 2, 2015

    Islam's 'Fair-Haired Women' Problem

    The Muslim penchant to target “white” women for sexual exploitation -- an epidemic currently plaguing Europe, especially Britain and Scandinavia -- is as old as Islam itself, and even traces back to Muhammad.  Much literary eviden...

  • June 26, 2015

    Pope prioritizes 'the world' over souls

    Pope Francis recently released a new encyclical.  Portions of it deal with environmentalism, global warming, and climate change.  Naturally, this has prompted controversy. It’s noteworthy that Francis didn’t merely opine on g...

  • May 31, 2015

    The Truth about Islamic Jizya

    The Return of Jizya Muslim demands for non-Muslim “infidels” to pay jizya on pain of death are growing, even as the West fluctuates between having no clue what jizya is and thinking that jizya is an example of “tolerance” i...

  • May 22, 2015

    Obama, ISIS, and the Writing on the Wall

    For months, many Western observers have been closely following the minute-by-minute developments concerning the battle between Islamic State and coalition forces in the hopes that such data will help them discern what the future may hold. Yet know...

  • May 17, 2015

    The Supremacist Roots of Muslim 'Grievances'

    In the ongoing debate (or debacle) concerning free speech/expression and Muslim grievance – most recently on exhibition in Garland, where two “jihadis” opened fire on a “Prophet Muhammad” art contest organized by Pamela ...

  • May 12, 2015

    Islam's 'Reformation' Is Already Here - and It's Called 'ISIS'

    The idea that Islam needs to reform is again in the spotlight following the recent publication of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s new book, Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now.  While Ali makes the argument that Islam can reform – and is in...

  • April 24, 2015

    Obama Breaks Promise on 100<sup>th</sup> Anniversary of Armenian Genocide

    As the world continues to look on in dismay at the atrocities committed against Christian minorities by the Islamic State – the self-proclaimed new “caliphate” – today, April 24, marks the genocide of Armenian and other Christ...

  • April 21, 2015

    The Price of Dhimmitude

    Approximately two months after the Islamic State (IS) published a video depicting its members slaughtering 21 Coptic Christians in Libya, on Sunday, April 19,  the Islamic jihadi organization released another video of more Christians in Lib...

  • April 10, 2015

    Easter under Islam

    As millions of Christians around the world were celebrating Easter Sunday, the Christians of the Muslim world were again under attack. The April 2 Islamic jihad attack on a Kenyan school -- where the Islamic murderers made sure to slaughter only Chri...

  • March 26, 2015

    Trusting the Ayatollahs

    As Iran continues edging closer to developing nuclear weapons -- a major threat to the entire Mideast region, especially longstanding U.S. ally Israel -- U.S. President Obama has come to the aid of the Islamic Republic, by citing an Islamic fatwa no ...

  • February 12, 2015

    Why Proposed 'Blasphemy Laws' Would Ban Islam

    Soon after Muslim gunmen killed 12 people at Charlie Hebdo offices, which published satirical  caricatures of Muslim prophet Muhammad, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) -- the “collective voice of the Muslim world” and se...

  • January 18, 2015

    MSM Says Judaism and Christianity as Violent as Islam

    Two events recently transpired that forced mainstream media to address a question they habitually dodge: Is Islam intrinsically violent?  First, on New Year’s Day, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi -- a world leader, and a Muslim -- ...

  • January 13, 2015

    Christians Slaughtered in Post 'Arab Spring' Libya

    The humanitarian disaster that is Libya continues to descend in chaos and atrocities. The full impact of Western intervention in Libya was recently highlighted during a televised interview on "Worlds Apart", with guest Hanne Nabintu...

  • January 8, 2015

    A Revolutionary Speech Ignored by the MSM

    On New Year’s Day, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi -- the hero of Egypt’s 2013 anti-Muslim Brotherhood revolution -- made some remarkable comments concerning the need for a “religious revolution.”  Watch the ...

  • August 20, 2014

    Sharks and Islamists: Equally Misunderstood?

    I recently spent some time watching Shark Week on television.  Being fascinated with large predatory fish, I’ve watched many shark programs throughout the years.  And I’ve reached one conclusion: the “liberal” respon...

  • August 3, 2014

    Islamic Jizya: 'Protection' from Whom?

    Is jizya – the money non-Muslims historically paid their Muslim conquerors – meant to buy them “protection,” including from outside enemies, as modern Western academics maintain?  Or was it simply extortion money meant to...

  • July 27, 2014

    World Leaders Lambast Obama's 'Failures' in the Middle East

    World leaders are increasingly pointing to U.S. President Obama’s failures in the Middle East.  Some are direct and blunt.  For example, during his recent visit to Brazil, Russian President Vladimir Putin was asked by journalists a...

  • July 18, 2014

    New Islamic Caliphate Declares Jihad on...Muslims

    The new “caliphate” of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi – the Islamic State, formerly ISIS – recently made clear that it means to follow in the footsteps of the original caliphate of Abu Bakr (632-634).  It will do this specifically ...

  • July 9, 2014

    Jihadi Rhetoric: Tiresome but Deadly

    I just spent the better part of the day reading and listening to sermons by the leaders and jihadis of the new “caliphate” in Mesopotamia, the Islamic State (formerly “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria”). I did so in the vain...

  • June 15, 2014

    Is Egypt's New President Anti-Christian?

    Overlooked in the midst of all the celebrations in Egypt concerning the presidential election of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, his predecessor, President Adly Mansour – who very much shares in Sisi’s worldview and politics – made a strange ...

  • May 29, 2014

    Salafism: An Egoistic Alternative for Muslims

    Dr. Yassir al-Burhami, vice president of Egypt’s Salafi party – the nation’s premiere Islamist party since the Muslim Brotherhood was banned – recently issued a controversial fatwa, or Islamic decree. Burhami’s earlie...

  • May 22, 2014

    Islam: 'Appalling and Abhorrent' in World's Blind Eyes

    On May 15, an eight-month pregnant mother was sentenced to death by hanging for refusing to renounce Christ in a court in Khartoum, Sudan.  According to the LA Times: Meriam Yehya Ibrahim, who has a young son and is married to a Christian f...

  • May 15, 2014

    Islamic 'Sex Slaves' Throw Wrench in Official Narrative

    Islamic law permits the possession of concubines, or sex slaves.  This has been demonstrated countless times, including through Islamic clerics quoting Islamic scriptures, and through ordinary Muslims, past and present, acting on those scripture...

  • May 7, 2014

    Christians 'Crucified Again' for Refusing Islam

    To the awe of its readership, a recent Daily Mail article reports that the “jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and Levant [ISIL],” which is currently entrenched in Raqqa, Syria, “publicly crucified two Syrian rebels in northeastern Syri...

  • April 26, 2014

    'Rape Revenge': Muslim Brotherhood Rape Boy for Supporting Anti-Brotherhood Revolution

    A young boy in Egypt, apparently no more than six years old, was recently raped by a Muslim Brotherhood member “angered” at the child for singing praises to Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, widely seen in Egypt as the hero of the revolution that saw...

  • April 17, 2014

    Why Westernized Muslims Become 'Radicalized'

    A new Danish statistical study finds that “Muslims [are] 218 percent more criminal in second generation than first.”  While some of these crimes are clearly related to Islam – such as attacks on Muslim apostates to Christianity...

  • April 6, 2014

    Islamic Fatwa Urges Homeless Women to Become Sex-Slaves

    Within the context of keeping the Syrian jihad alive, it seems there is no end to the attempts of some Islamic clerics to legitimize otherwise forbidden behavior in order to gratify the sexual urges of the jihadis and keep them fighting Syrian presid...

  • March 16, 2014

    Allah's Sword of Terror

    The first time I heard about Khalid bin al-Walid – the 7th-century Muslim jihadi affectionately known in Islamic history as “The Sword of Allah” – was when I was in college researching for my MA thesis on the Battle of Yarmuk,...

  • February 13, 2014

    The Pentagon's Bow to Islamic Extremism

    "Caving to pressure from Muslim groups, the Pentagon has relaxed uniform rules to allow Islamic beards, turbans and hijabs. It's a major win for political correctness and a big loss for military unit cohesion," said a recent report. This new relaxa...

  • February 4, 2014

    Al-Qaeda: Defender of Christians?

    Muslim persecution of Christians is the "Achilles heel" of the global Islamic movement's image -- the surest way of exposing its supremacist and intolerant elements, and one of the main reasons the major media and establishment rarely report or addre...

  • January 14, 2014

    The Hound of Jihad

    The relentlessness of Islamic jihadi enmity for non-Muslims appears to know no bounds -- sometimes even pursuing "infidels" beyond the grave.  While the West may hear of the more spectacular attacks on non-Muslims -- bombed and burned churc...

  • January 9, 2014

    How the Muslim World Came into Being

    Arabic-language websites reported earlier this week that the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which throughout the course of the war against the Assad government has committed any number of atrocities -- from decapitating "infide...

  • December 6, 2013

    Islamic Jihad on Christian Nuns: A History

    Yet another phenomenon with a long paper trail in Islamic history has just taken place, even as the Western "mainstream" -- little acquainted with true history or reality -- dismisses it as an aberration.  Asia News has the details: Isla...

  • November 26, 2013

    'Muslim Jesus' Demands Sharia Law and Payment of Jizya

    Time and again, Muslims, especially those in Egypt, project Islamic thinking onto Christians: thus, the Coptic church has been accused of smuggling and storing weapons in its churches to take over the nation (when in fact mosques are regularly expose...

  • November 20, 2013

    Islamic Justice: Muslim Blood Superior to Infidel Blood

    Arguing that Muslim blood is more precious than infidel blood, Muslim clerics in and out of Sudan are outraged because a Sudanese court has condemned a Muslim man to death -- simply because he murdered American Diplomat John Granville on January 1, 2...

  • November 14, 2013

    BBC Minimizes Christian Persecution

    While it is no secret that the so-called mainstream media habitually fails to report on the international phenomenon of Christian persecution, few are aware that they sometimes actively work to undermine the efforts of those who do expose it. Consi...

  • November 10, 2013

    Exploiting Christian Persecution to Demonize Israel

    What's worse than the silence of Western Christians concerning the Muslim persecution of their coreligionists in the Islamic world?  Answer: Cynically exploiting that persecution for a political agenda -- in the case of a recent Daily Beast...

  • November 3, 2013

    How Historic Revisionism Justifies Islamic Terrorism

    How important, really, is history to current affairs?  Do events from the 7th century -- or, more importantly, how we understand them -- have any influence on U.S. foreign policy today? By way of answer, consider some parallels between aca...

  • November 2, 2013

    Exposed: Names and Identities of Muslim Brotherhood Operatives in U.S.

    El Watan, one of Egypt's most widely circulated and read newspapers, has published a report discussing the Muslim Brotherhood's influence over the United States, especially in the context of inciting pro-Brotherhood policies against Egypt's popular J...

  • October 23, 2013

    Barack Obama Supports the Muslim Brotherhood...Again

    Who is more deserving of punishment by the United States?  Millions of Egyptians, for ousting the Muslim Brotherhood?  Or the Muslim Brotherhood, for habitually terrorizing and murdering Christians, among many other crimes? Acco...

  • October 20, 2013

    Islamic Doctrines Justify Sex Jihad

    As news of the sex jihad continues to proliferate in Mideast media, and as the West continues to bury its head in the sand -- here for example is Der Spiegel's attempt to portray as "false" the "tales of rebels engaging in 'sex jihad' and massacring ...

  • October 18, 2013

    Top Muslim Authority Unwittingly Equates Jihad with Terrorism

    A recent Arabic article appearing in Egypt's Al Ahram newspaper, titled "Is Terrorism Jihad?" and written by Islamic law expert Dr. Abdul Fatah Idris, offers important lessons -- from the fact that jihad does involve subjugating non-Muslims to why th...

  • October 13, 2013

    In History: Western Civilization Saved from Islam at Battle of Tours

    Precisely 100 years after the death of Islam's prophet Muhammad in 632, his Arab followers, after having conquered thousands of miles of lands from Arabia to Spain, found themselves in Gaul (modern-day France), facing a hitherto little-known people, ...

  • October 3, 2013

    Surreal and Suicidal: Modern Western Histories of Islam

    Rereading some early history books concerning the centuries-long jihad on Europe, it recently occurred to me how ignorant the modern West is of its own past. The historical narrative being disseminated today bears very little resemblance to reality. ...

  • September 6, 2013

    U.S. Hypocrisy for Syrian 'Human Rights'

    Did the Syrian government, or did it not, use chemical weapons - that is the question that will apparently decide whether the U.S. will enter another messy war, one that may have many long-term consequences. That is the question the media and its tal...

  • September 4, 2013

    Egypt: Copts Killed for Ransom

    Not only are the churches, monasteries, and institutions of Egypt's Christians under attack by the Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters -- nearly 100 now have been torched, destroyed, ransacked, etc. -- but Christians themselves are under attack all...

  • September 2, 2013

    Mideast Nuclear Holocaust

    After constant exposure to critically important news, it begins to lose all meaning and sense of urgency. Hearing the same warnings over and over again -- especially when the status quo seems static -- can cause a certain desensitization, a resigned ...

  • March 27, 2013

    The Threat of Islamic Betrayal

    A recent assassination attempt in Turkey offers valuable lessons for the West concerning Islamist hate -- and the amount of deceit and betrayal that hate engenders towards non-Muslim "infidels." Last January, an assassination plot against a Christia...

  • October 29, 2011

    Revelations of Time

    David Horowitz's book A Point in Time is at root an exposé on the nature of Time, that double-edged sword which, by obliterating all in its path, highlights the precious from the superfluous in our lives. In structure, the book consists of Horowitz's...

  • April 17, 2010

    The War of Ideas: Jihadism against Democracy

    After the strikes of 9/11, a plethora of books dealing with the threat of radical Islam appeared in the West. In The War of Ideas: Jihad Against Democracy, Dr. Walid Phares -- who had been studying Islamism and its impact on international relations d...

  • December 14, 2008

    On Vikings and Victims: White-Guilt in Context

    All-permeating "white-guilt" did not appear out of thin air. It has taken a sustained propaganda effort, a wide-ranging mobilization of education and culture, to inculcate and sustain self-loathing among American Caucasians. Like the Coca-C...

  • October 21, 2008

    Al Qaeda and the Election

    Is al Qaeda trying to influence the American presidential election?Former counterterrorism coordinator Richard Clarke recently suggested that al Qaeda may be trying to do so.  After describing al Qaeda's recent attacks in the Middle East (Yemen,...

  • September 11, 2008

    Osama Bin Laden as Robin Hood?

    Are Osama bin Laden and other "salafi" Muslims being true to Islam's tenets or are they simply "freedom fighters" articulating their grievances against Western imperialism through an Islamic paradigm? The debate in the Islamic wor...

  • August 16, 2008

    The Coptic Conundrum

    Why are Egypt's Coptic Christians so apathetic about their persecution?The other night flipping through Arabic satellite stations, I came across a Coptic man who was lividly discussing the "Coptic question." His name was George Sa'ad, and h...

  • June 20, 2008

    Know your enemy

    Barack Obama's National Security Advisor Richard Danzig recently made a fool of himself by claiming that Winnie the Pooh is a "fundamental text on national security." His flippancy only emphasizes the fact that doctrinal writings ...

  • June 4, 2008

    Would a Jihadi by Any Other Name Smell as Foul?

    The terminology we use to describe our enemy in the war on terror matters a lot. A spirited debate is underway among specialists and in the press. An op-ed published Monday in the New York Times entitled "What do you call a Terror(Jihad)ist?...