Muslims around the world—especially in Europe where their numbers have burgeoned in recent times—are wreaking havoc. The newest atrocity—assuming another one hasn’t already occurred since this writing—is the barbaric slaughter of an 85-year-old Christian priest in France. Yesterday (7/26) morning, “Allahu Akbar” shouting Muslims stormed his church in Rouen while the octogenarian priest, Jacques Hamel, […]
Raymond Ibrahim: When It Comes to Islam, Western Leaders Are Liars or Idiots
When it comes to the connection between Islam and violence against non-Muslims, one fact must be embraced: the majority of those in positions of leadership and authority in the West are either liars or fools, or both. No other alternative exists. The reason for this uncharitable assertion is simple: If Islam was once a […]
Raymond Ibrahim: ‘Mere Islam’ and the Munich Massacre
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 murdered nine. This incident is a reminder that the ongoing terrorization of the West is not limited to the Islamic State (ISIS), “extreme” Wahhabi or Salafi interpretations of Islam, or terrorists posing as […]
Raymond Ibrahim: ‘Worthless Christians’ Treated ‘Like Animals’
Originally published by Gatestone Institute The following anecdotes of Muslim persecution of Christians around the world occurred or were reported in April, 2016. They are categorized by theme, or familiar patterns: Muslim Attacks on Christian Churches United States: A pro-ISIS group calling itself the United Cyber Caliphate defaced the website of the Christian Reformed Church in the city of […]
Egypt: Top Islamic institution preaches “religious freedom” to West, while supporting death penalty for apostates at home
In a statement titled, “The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies Calls on Al Azhar’s Sheikh to Renounce His Remarks Which Contradict Religious Freedom and Support Violent Extremism,” the institute blasted Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb’s recent remarks concerning apostasy, first reported in the English here. Though Tayeb is often portrayed as a “moderate” and “reformer,” the […]
Raymond Ibrahim: ‘Muslim Grievances’ Responsible for Terrorism in France, Says Reuters
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, that Islam has nothing to do with terrorism. Take one Reuters report by Tom Heneghan, titled “Foreign and domestic policies make France ‘most threatened country.’” Its […]
Raymond Ibrahim: Are Catholic Molesters and Islamic Terrorists “Abusing” 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 can identify with Barack Obama on the religious issue. As a Roman Catholic I was appalled when the priest pedophilia […]
Islam is both a religion and polity, says leading Egyptian cleric
What is the role of Islam in Muslim society? Is it just a religion to be practiced privately, as Christianity is understood in the West? Or does it call for theocracy—governance according to the laws derived from it, also known as Sharia? Dr. Ali Abdel Raziq, whose 1925 book arguing against the caliphate caused an […]
Raymond Ibrahim: Made in Our Image: The Allure 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 in Arabic (my recent translation here): Islamic researchers are agreed that what the West and its followers call […]
Raymond Ibrahim: Seven Myths of the Crusades
Seven Myths of the Crusades by Alfred J. Andrea and Andrew Holt, eds. Cambridge, Mass.: Hackett Publishing, 2015. 248 pp. $54 ($19, paper). As the editors make clear in their preface, Seven Myths of the Crusades is presented as an antidote to the “outpouring of exaggerations, misperceptions, errors, misrepresentations, and fabrications” that proliferate in popular discourse about […]
Egypt’s highest Islamic authority — a “moderate” — says apostasy punishable by death
The line between “moderate” and “radical” Muslim continues to fade. On the question of apostasy in Islam—whether a born or converted Muslim has the right to abandon Islam for another or no religion—the radical position is well known: unrepentant apostates are to be punished with death. Yet one of the Muslim world’s greatest authorities, the […]
Raymond Ibrahim: “Your Fault!” Why Western Women Get Raped by Muslims
Are Western women responsible for provoking Muslim men into raping them? Some Europeans certainly seem to think so. Recently, after a 20-year-old Austrian woman waiting at a bus stop in Vienna was attacked, beaten, and robbed by four Muslim men from Afghanistan—including one who “started [by] putting his hands through my hair and made it clear […]
Raymond Ibrahim: Nations Seeking to Ban Islam Keep Growing
As liberals and progressives continue to portray Donald Trump as an intolerant brute for suggesting a ban on Muslims entering the United States, “until we figure out what’s going on,” left unsaid (perhaps intentionally) is that he’s hardly the first international personage to suggest this. Most recently, the heads of the Christian church of Samoa […]
Raymond Ibrahim: 70-Year-Old Christian Women Stripped and Paraded by Muslims Not First to Suffer This Way
[Detailed updates on this story] A 70-year-old Christian woman was stripped naked, savagely beat, and paraded in the streets of Egypt to jeers, whistles, and yells of “Allahu Akbar,” after a mob of some 300 armed Muslim men descended on her home.[1] Her crime? Her son is falsely accused of having a romantic relationship with […]
Raymond Ibrahim: “Radical” vs. “Moderate” Islam: A Muslim View
Originally published by Gatestone Institute After his recent electoral victory, it emerged that Sadiq Khan, London’s first Muslim mayor, had described moderate Muslim groups as “Uncle Toms”—a notorious racial slur used against blacks perceived to be subservient to whites, or, in this context, Muslims who embrace “moderate Islam” as a way of being subservient to […]
Raymond Ibrahim on Rebel Media: “Christians Are the MOST Persecuted People on Earth”
I was recently interviewed on The Rebel Media (starting around the 24:12 mark of this video). The following introduction is from The Rebel Media’s “Cultural Wars with Tiffany Gabbay”: Christians are the MOST persecuted people on earth: These stories will SHOCK you You won’t you won’t see much mainstream media coverage or liberal celebrities raising awareness of this […]
Raymond Ibrahim on CBN News: EgyptAir Plane Crash
Recently I appeared on CBN News discussing the crash of EgyptAir, terrorism in Egypt, the Sisi government, and more.
Raymond Ibrahim: Pope Francis’ Jihad on Christianity
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 anti-Christ.” The more salient features follow: Christ as Warmonger In classic […]
Raymond Ibrahim: The Jihad on Christian Church Tents
[Originally published by Gatestone Institute] A Christian church in Egypt was recently torched to the ground. According to a statement by the Coptic Christian diocese in Minya, Upper Egypt: “The Virgin Mary Church in Ismailiyah, which is about four miles north of Minya, was exposed to an attack by some extremists who set fire to and completely […]
Raymond Ibrahim: Yazidi Girl Exposes ISIS Rape Hellhole
[Gatestone Institute, May 12, 2016] A new televised interview, conducted in Arabic with a Yazidi girl who endured sexual captivity at the hands of the Islamic State, was published on March 22, 2016. It appeared on “Shabaab [Youth] Talk,” hosted by Ja’far Abdul. The teenage girl, who went by the pseudonym of Birvan, was enslaved when […]