FrontPage Magazine On September 20, Donald Trump asserted that “I defeated the caliphate.... I defeated the caliphate — ISIS. ” Is this true? Considering that Trump can passingly say that the sky is blue before the media and various “experts” rush to insist otherwise, naturally various elements deny this latest claim as well. The facts, however, speak for … [Read more...]
Islamic Jihad: Why No Life Is Safe
FrontPage Magazine On September 11, 2019—the eighteenth anniversary of the 9/11 terror strikes on U.S. soil—al-Qaeda leader Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri released a video praising that “blessed raid” and inciting Muslims for more like it, particularly against American, European, Israeli, and Russian targets. One of the more interesting aspects of the video is that the 68-year-old … [Read more...]
Trump’s ‘Islam Hates Us’ Returns
Donald Trump’s infamous assertion “Islam hates us,” which he made over three years ago while campaigning for president, continues to anger his opponents. Most recently, Democratic presidential hopefuls Julián Castro and Bernie Sanders cited it in their efforts to court Muslim votes in Houston. Soon after being introduced by his Muslim campaign manager, Faiz Shakir, … [Read more...]
The 21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs
Note: The following is a book review of The 21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs by Martin Mosebach. A shorter version was first published by the Middle East Quarterly (Fall 2019, Vol. 26, No. 4). To learn as much as possible of the 21 Coptic Christians martyred for refusing to recant their faith at the hands of the Islamic State (“ISIS”) on the shores of … [Read more...]
Ibrahim on Steel on Steel: Christian Persecution, Mexican Border, Political Correctness, and More
I was recently interviewed on Steel on Steel with John Loeffler. "Coptic Christian persecution in Egypt, Islamic terrorists at our southern border, the different perceptions of moderate and radical Muslims, and the political correctness that keeps us from getting at the truth," were among some of the topics we discussed in the 30-minute interview, which can be … [Read more...]