Video: Raymond Ibrahim at the Women for Freedom Summit, Dallas

Posted 2022-11-10 15:36:09 by: Сард

I recently spoke at the Women for Freedom Summit, held in Dallas last month.  My 25-minute talk, which was titled “Islam in America,” follows, and begins around the 2-minute ...

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Plagiarized: Defenders of the West

Posted 2022-11-10 15:30:35 by: Сард

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 after the release date of my official version (July 26).  It appears under the author ...

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Qatar Tells Muslim Migrants to Despise Their Western Host Nations

Posted 2022-11-09 15:47:56 by: Сард

The following was written by Selwyn Duke for The New American: “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you” goes the age-old sage advice. This counsel is lost on U.S. “ally” Qatar, however, as it’s counseling Muslims living in non-Islamic nations to despise their “infidel” benefactors. Thus reports Raymond Ibrahim, an author, scholar, and senior fellow ...

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“Raped, Tortured, and Dismembered”: The Muslim Persecution of Christians, September 2022

Posted 2022-11-08 15:12:48 by: Сард

Gatestone Institute The following are among the abuses Muslims inflicted on Christians throughout the month of September, 2022: The Muslim Slaughter of Christians Azerbaijan/Armenia: On Sept. 13, Azerbaijan launched drones, artillery, and mortars on several Armenian villages; the bombardment continued for two days. Over 100 Armenian soldiers were killed. Though widely seen as a territorial ...

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Audio: “It Wasn’t Always This Way,” with Raymond Ibrahim

Posted 2022-11-07 17:20:54 by: Сард

During his Author of the Week segment, Nick Reed of the radio station 104.1 KSGF recently interviewed me on several topics related to my Defenders of the West, including the qualities of great leaders, why Western cynicism is self-defeating, and why suppressing the truth eventually and invariably makes it worse for the suppressers themselves.  The ...

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Video: ‘Securing America TV – Raymond Ibrahim Explains the Origins of Sharia Law’

Posted 2022-11-03 14:27:57 by: Сард

Frank Gaffney, of the Center for Security Policy, recently interviewed me on his program, Securing America.  Below is the official description, followed by the full, nearly hour-long interview separated in five parts: RAYMOND IBRAHIM, Author of Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam, is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom ...

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American Muslims: More ‘Islamophobic’ than Everyone Else

Posted 2022-11-02 14:50:15 by: Сард

The Stream For long, the powers that be have insisted that Islamophobia—defined as “unfounded fear of and hostility towards Islam”—is the root of all problems between Muslims and non-Muslims in the West. Speaking last May, Joe Biden lamented that “so many Muslims [are] being targeted with violence. No one, no one should [be] discriminated against ...

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The Deleted History of Islam: Interview with Raymond Ibrahim

Posted 2022-11-01 15:08:04 by: Сард

The following Q&A was conducted by Davide Cavaliere for the Italian website L’informale: Born and raised in the U.S. to Egyptian parents who lived in the Middle East, Raymond Ibrahim is an author and a highly regarded lecturer specializing in the Middle East and Islam. Currently a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, Distinguished ...

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Count Dracula: Undead Bloodsucker or Anti-Jihad Hero?

Posted 2022-10-31 16:08:14 by: Сард

The Stream Did you know that the archfiend best representing the Halloween season—namely, Count Dracula—is fake news? I don’t mean that he’s fake in the sense that he’s fictional—which, of course, he is—but rather that his entire genesis is grounded in a pattern we now recognize and see on a daily basis: leftist propagandistic forces ...

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The West Turns Back on Persecuted Christians, Embraces Radical Muslims

Posted 2022-10-27 16:34:56 by: Сард

Gatestone Institute Western authorities appear committed to discriminating against Christian, while welcoming Muslim, asylum seekers. Most recently, Germany—which has taken in millions of refugees from the Muslim world, including un-vetted ones from Afghanistan—denied refuge to an Iranian convert to Christianity, even though his brother-in-law was imprisoned, tortured, and killed after converting in their native Iran.  ...

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Today in History: Christian Albania Prevails over Islamic Jihad

Posted 2022-10-26 18:40:42 by: Сард

  Today in history witnessed an epic defense by a small Christian force against Islamic invaders: the relief of the siege of Croya, Albania, in 1450. Nearly four decades earlier, the leader of the Albanian forces, George Kastrioti—better known as Skanderbeg (“Lord Alexander”)—was taken captive as a child by the Ottoman Turks, and trained to ...

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Video: Eric Metaxas Interviews Raymond Ibrahim on ‘Defending the West’

Posted 2022-10-25 15:46:56 by: Сард

I recently appeared on the Eric Metaxas Radio Show discussing a variety of topics, including the concept of Just War—if and when Christians can take up arms and fight back—particularly in the context of jihadist ...

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Today in History: Muslims Worship Allah Atop 2,400 Decapitated Christian Heads

Posted 2022-10-23 19:25:57 by: Сард

  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 formally initiating the Reconquista.  Great was the lamentation among Muslims and great the rejoicing among ...

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“Thus Are Moors Defeated!” Today in History, the Cid Annihilates the Jihadists

Posted 2022-10-21 12:44:41 by: Сард

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 for years. Earlier, the Almoravids, a North African group committed to jihadist teaching and led by the emir Yusuf bin Tashfin, began pouring into Spain to aid ...

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“Apathy Toward Religious Intolerance Sets Stage for Real Persecution: Author”

Posted 2022-10-19 11:31:09 by: Сард

The following article was written by J. M. Phelps, for American Family News: A researcher and author argues that a laissez-faire response toward religious intolerance and discrimination is a “slippery slope” that leads to persecution – a level of persecution he says America has yet to witness. According to a recent survey by Lifeway Research, ...

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Video: The Turkic Jihad on Christian Armenia

Posted 2022-10-18 14:16:37 by: Сард

I recently appeared on OAN’s “Tipping Point” with Kara McKinney to discuss my article, “An Ancient Hate: Why Armenia Will Never Know Peace from Surrounding ...

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Muslim Sources of the Crusader Period: An Anthology

Posted 2022-10-17 13:33:02 by: Сард

Edited and trans. by James E. Lindsay and Suleiman A. Mourad. Cambridge, Mass.: Hackett Publishing, 2021. 320 pp. $63 ($21, paper). Reviewed by Raymond Ibrahim Middle East Quarterly Fall, 2022 Lindsay (Colorado State University) and Mourad (Smith College) write: This anthology is an attempt to bring to light a disparate selection of sources that in ...

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Circumnavigating the Jihad: Why Christopher Columbus Sailed West

Posted 2022-10-14 14:32:38 by: Сард

The Stream Another Columbus Day—or as the left calls it, “Indigenous Peoples Day”—has come and gone.  It was “celebrated” with typical and outraged wokeism concerning the Italian explorer’s alleged “genocide” against the natives.  And another Columbus memorial was also defaced in Massachusetts—with the words, “Genocider” and “Death to Amerika” sprawled with blood red ink. Once ...

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Are Muslim ‘Officials’ Denying Persecuted Christians Refuge in Europe?

Posted 2022-10-12 16:14:16 by: Сард

The Stream The same Germany that took in over a million Muslim migrants in 2015, and ten thousand non-vetted Afghans in 2021—all people who, by definition, could not be experiencing religious persecution back home as they themselves were Muslim—has refused asylum to a Muslim convert to Christianity, even though one of his relatives was tortured ...

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Audio: The Real Count Dracula

Posted 2022-10-04 17:35:25 by: Сард

During a recent interview on the Bob Dutko Show, I ended up discussing who the real “Count Dracula” was — and the often forgotten role Islam played in his making — in the following 7-minute audio: ...

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An Ancient Hate: Why Armenia Will Never Know Peace from Surrounding Islam

Posted 2022-10-03 16:39:32 by: Сард

The Stream In late 2020, war broke out between Armenia and Azerbaijan.  Two months later, peace was achieved on condition that the Christian nation cede its ancestral lands in Artsakh, internationally known as “Nagorno-Karabakh,” to its Muslim neighbor. The peace bought by such Armenian appeasement has been fickle at best.  Two weeks ago, Azerbaijan launched ...

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Muslims Accuse Queen of Muslim Behavior

Posted 2022-09-29 15:55:15 by: Сард

The Stream “Muslims should NOT sing the national anthem” is the title and argument of a recent piece by Faisal Bodi of the so-called “Islamic Human Rights Commission” based in London.  Written in response to Queen Elizabeth II’s recent funeral, it reveals Muslim sentiment in more ways than one. First, Bodi engages in the usual: ...

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The ‘Long Campaign’ against Islamic Terrorism

Posted 2022-09-28 16:00:30 by: Сард

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, “everyone [in the West] spoke of making war on the infidels and driving them out of Europe”—and it was entirely due ...

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Social Media: Where Truth is Censored and Hate is Spread

Posted 2022-09-27 15:56:40 by: Сард

The Stream Social media giants such as Facebook are notorious for censoring anything they label “misinformation” or “offensive,” from the second opinions of doctors during a pandemic, to the pleas of persecuted Christians.  Little known, however, is that they also allow hate-filled, radical, and murderous content from Muslim terror groups to post on and make ...

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Christians ‘Face Routine Torture’ in Afghanistan

Posted 2022-09-26 15:52:04 by: Сард

Gatestone Institute The estimated 15,000-20,000 Christians who remain in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover “face routine torture and persecution from both the government and their own friends, families and communities,” according to a new report. This is not a new development.  From the start, matters significantly worsened for Christians on August 15, 2021, following the Biden ...

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