The kidnapping and plundering of Egypt’s Christian Copts continues unabated. As recently revealed on CTV, in a village called Maghlaga, in the district of Malawi””where Muslim Brotherhood supporters earlier ransacked and plundered a museum housing Egyptian antiquities””a Muslim gang leader known as “Saddam” has been going to every one of the approximately 80 Coptic households […]
Exposed: Egyptian newspaper names and identifies Muslim Brotherhood operatives in U.S.
[Via RaymondIbrahim.com] 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 June 30 Revolution, which resulted in the ousting of Muhammad Morsi and the Brotherhood from power. Titled (in […]
Raymond Ibrahim: 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 academia’s portrayal of the historic Islamic jihads and the U.S. government’s and media’s portrayal of contemporary Islamic jihads. While any […]
Egyptian authorities have evidence of cooperation between Morsi and Ayman Zawahiri, says former jihadi
Nabil Na”im, the former leader of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad group (where Ayman Zawahiri was before merging with al-Qaeda), recently made several
Raymond Ibrahim: Obama Leverages Egyptian Aid to Support Child Murdering Islamic Terrorists
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? According to the unmistakably clear actions of the Obama administration, it is the millions of anti-Brotherhood Egyptians who deserve punishment. Consider: Last Sunday, […]
Raymond Ibrahim: Islamic Doctrines Justify Sex Jihad (With Video)
Note: A 15-minute video of men and women from various nations discussing their experiences with the sex jihad in Syria, translated from Arabic to English by my colleagues, appears beneath this article (you may need to click on “CC” (closed caption”) for the English subtitles to appear). As news of the sex jihad continues to […]
‘Gangs’ seize and tax Coptic Christian property in Egypt
The plight of Egypt’s Christian Copts, especially in Upper Egypt, continues unabated. According to a new Arabic report, during the last few days in Asyut, “criminal groups and gangs managed to acquire guns and weapons and, as usual, have attacked and abused the Christians to control their sources of income, including to finance their [the […]
Raymond Ibrahim: Jihad or Terrorism? The Semantic Arguments of Islam’s Authorities
A recent Arabic article appearing in Egypt’s Al Ahram newspaper titled “Is Terrorism Jihad?” written by Islamic law expert Dr. Abdul Fatah Idris offers important lessons””from the fact that jihad does involve subjugating non-Muslims to why the Western mentality is still incapable of acknowledging it. Idris, professor and chairman of Al Azhar University”s Department of […]
Raymond Ibrahim: Surreal and Suicidal 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. Consider some facts for a moment: A mere decade after the birth of Islam in the 7th […]
Coptic villages attacked by Brotherhood look like “nuclear bombs exploded there”
During a recent conference, Dr. Sherif Doss, an Egyptian activist, confirmed the extent of the widespread attacks on Egypt’s Christians””including “at least 80 churches that were torched and/or destroyed–”and highlighted the often overlooked but ongoing human suffering of the Copts: “But worst of all, about 140 families were evicted from their own homes; and worse […]
Raymond Ibrahim: Foreign Policy Magazine Covers Up Syrian Sex Jihad
Foreign Policy magazine recently demonstrated why U.S. foreign policy, especially in the Middle East, is a disaster: because the establishment has a hard time factoring the foreign in their policies (more’s the irony). Put differently, whatever information doesn’t comport with modern Western epistemology””our subjective worldviews””must simply be false, unreal, to be discarded from any consideration […]
Raymond Ibrahim: Where Jihad and Christian Persecution Run Rampant
Many around the world were recently made aware””got a small glimpse””of the Islamic jihad that plagues northern Nigeria, at the hands of Boko Haram, an organization dedicated to eradicating Christianity and enforcing the totality of Sharia law. Last Sunday, September 29, around 1 a.m. Islamic terrorists dressed in Nigerian military uniforms invaded an agricultural college, […]
Sex Jihad and Western disbelief
[Via RaymondIbrahim.com] The sex jihad is back in the news. Last Thursday, September 19, during an address to the National Constituent Assembly, Tunisian Interior Minister Lotfi Bin Jeddo announced that Tunisian girls who had traveled to Syria to perform “sex jihad” had returned after being sexually “swapped between 20, 30, and 100 rebels and they […]
AIDS and pregnant: Tunisian girl recounts her sex jihad in Syria
The Arabic media has been full of interviews with some of the many Tunisian girls that went to the sex jihad in Syria. The other day Tunisian newspaper Al Sharaouk (“Sunrise) shed light on the horrific experiences of one of these girls. Her name is Lamia, and she’s 19-years-old. While in Syria, she had sex […]
Raymond Ibrahim: Russian Patriarch to Obama – Syria’s Christians Nearing “˜Extermination”
Over at PJ Media (via RaymondIbrahim.com), I shed light on the pleas to Obama from the spiritual leader of 150 million Orthodox Christians: While many were fixated on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent letter to the American people, another letter from another Russian leader””this one directly addressed to the U.S. president””was missed. On September 10, […]
New evidence ties ousted Morsi government to al-Qaeda
Days before the ousting of former Egyptian President Morsi, an Arabic-language report had said that, “al-Qaeda, under the leadership of Muhammad Zawahiri [brother of al-Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri and a leader of al-Qaeda in Sinai], is currently planning reprisal operations by which to attack the army and the Morsi-opposition all around the Republic [of Egypt].” […]
Brotherhood, Al Jazeera threaten Christians to repudiate jizya reports
[Via RaymondIbrahim.com] Following news that the Muslim Brotherhood has revived the practice of collecting tribute from conquered “infidels–”that is, collecting jizya from Egypt’s Coptic Christians in the village of Dalga””according to a report published by the popular Egyptian newspaper Youm7 days before police invaded Dalga: The Muslim Brotherhood is passing by the homes of the […]
Raymond Ibrahim: Muslim Husbands Must Hate Non-Muslim Wives
Over at CBN News (via RaymondIbrahim.com) I translate and put into context a well known Egyptian sheikh’s instructions that Muslim males are commanded to hate their non-Muslim wives — whom he further analogizes with rape victims — while enjoying them for their bodies, wealth, or any other appealing attributes: Often translated as “Loyalty and Enmity,” […]
UNESCO on Brotherhood supporters: “˜Enemies of civilization and heritage”
[via RaymondIbrahim.com] After visiting the ransacked Malawi National Museum in al-Minya, Upper Egypt, as well as a nearby evangelical church that was torched, Pierre-André Lablaude, a UNESCO antiquities representative, expressed his “displeasure and dismay” concerning the “radical” groups responsible for such wanton destruction of historic buildings and antiquities, describing them as “enemies of civilization and […]
Raymond Ibrahim: ‘Vote for Me or Else’ – Patterns between Egypt and Pakistan
Over at Gatestone Institute (via RaymondIbrahim.com) I discuss how “elections” are the latest excuse to attack Christian minorities in the Islamic world In what seems to be a pattern in many Muslim nations of finding new pretexts to justify anti-Christian””and “anti-Other–”behavior, Egypt’s Christians and their churches are under attack, ostensibly because Christians joined the June […]