FrontPage Magazine Is the sexual enslavement of non-Muslim women an Islamic State idea or merely an Islamic idea? First, lest there is any doubt that ISIS members were not only convinced that it was their Islamic right to sexually enslave “infidels,” but that doing so was pious, consider this account from 2015: “In the moments before he raped the 12-year-old [non-Muslim] … [Read more...]
Conclusion: Army War College, CAIR, and Raymond Ibrahim
On February 26, 2020, I spoke at the U.S. Army War College’s Heritage and Education Center in Carlisle, Penn. The title (and topic) of my talk was lifted from my last book: Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West. Since then, I have received a number of questions concerning this hitherto "controversial" event—how it was, how I was, if there … [Read more...]
“Raymond Ibrahim Explains the Extensive History of Islam” on Center for Security Policy
Frank Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policy (CSP), recently interviewed me on a number of topics. The title and description of the interview, as they appear on the CSP site, follow, with links to the four audio segments, each averaging about ten minutes long: Raymond Ibrahim explains the extensive history of Islam RAYMOND IBRAHIM, Author of Sword … [Read more...]
Terrorism-Linked CAIR Protests My Scheduled Talk at US Army War College — Again
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (“CAIR”)—also known as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the largest terrorist funding case in U.S. history and a designated “terrorist organization” for nations allied to America—is again vehemently protesting my forthcoming appearance at the U.S. Army War College, urging the latter to “reconsider its decision and disinvite Ibrahim,” … [Read more...]
Major Islamic Conference on Reform Upholds Radicalism
Largely unknown to and unreported in the West, a large, two-day conference was recently hosted by Al Azhar University in Egypt and attendant by the leading clerics and politicians from 46 nations on January 27-28. Titled, “Renewal in Islamic Thought,” it is currently the most significant response to Egyptian President Sisi’s calls for reform, which he forcibly made on January … [Read more...]