Posts Tagged: Raymond Ibrahim
The Persecution of Christians in Iran
Iran's small Christian community enjoyed a rare reprieve last month when Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani was released from prison before finishing a six year sentence. The reasons...
‘Pro-Palestinian’ Means No Such Thing
“There are three kinds of lies,” Mark Twain said, attributing the insight to Benjamin Disraeli, “lies, damned lies and statistics.” Turns out there is a...
How the US Army War College Surrendered to CAIR
The US Army War College (USAWC) has just surrendered to the demands of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) -- an “unindicted co-conspirator,” to quote...
Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day: Revisiting the Slaughter of Christians
April 24 marked the “Great Crime,” i.e. the genocide of Christians -- mostly Armenians but also Assyrians -- that took place under the Islamic Ottoman...
Will the Return of ‘Jihad’ to Intelligence Trump Decades of Indoctrination?
President Donald Trump’s new national security strategy is set to feature the return words relevant to understanding Islamic terrorism -- such as “jihad” -- that had been expunged from...
Pope Francis and Radical 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...
The Truth About Israel’s Christian Minority
JNS.org - In the Gatestone Institute’s August report on Christian persecution, Raymond Ibrahim described the brutal, rampant and global Islamic persecution of Christians and other minorities,...
Why Prisons Are Prime Recruiting Centers for Radical Islam
Islam's Rule of Numbers holds that, wherever and whenever Muslims grow in numbers, the same acts of "anti-infidel" violence that are endemic to the Islamic world...
Saudi Arabia Now Fights Terrorists it Helped to Create
In a move reminiscent of "ancient history," Saudi Arabia is building a 600-mile-long "Great Wall" - a combined fence and ditch - to separate itself from...
Sisi’s Brave New Egypt?
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi continues to be the antithesis of longstanding mainstream media portrayals of him. First there was his historic speech where he, leader...
Egyptian Ruler Sisi Says Islamic ‘Thinking’ is ‘Antagonizing the Entire World’
Speaking before Al-Azhar and the Awqaf Ministry on New Year's Day, 2015, in connection to Prophet Muhammad's upcoming birthday, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a...
Ben Affleck Misunderstands the Middle East
The value of actor Ben Affleck's recent outbursts in defense of Islam on HBO's Real Time is that here, in one 10-minute segment, we have all the leftist/liberal...
Presbyterian Church Criticizes Israel, Remains Silent on Brutal Anti-Christian Persecution in Middle East
Days before the recent Israel/Hamas conflict erupted, the Presbyterian Church USA withdrew $21 million worth of investments from Israel because, as spokesman Heath Rada put...
Jihadi Rhetoric: Tiresome, Repetitive, and 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...
