Gatestone Institute The Biden administration is preventing the rescue of persecuted Christian minorities from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, where they face certain and likely gruesome death. This information surfaced on August 26, 2021, during an interview between Glenn Beck and Tucker Carlson on Fox News. Through his charity, the Nazarene Fund, Beck had managed to … [Read more...]
King ‘Cherry-Picker’ Juan Cole Accuses Jihadists of Cherry-Picking the Koran
Juan Cole—an academic who excels at cherry-picking when not completely distorting the Koran—recently published an article that opens by, irony of ironies, accusing jihadists of “cherry picking” Koran verses to justify their terrorism: One of the great tragedies of the early twenty-first century is that the great civilization of Islam, over 1400 years old and with tremendous … [Read more...]
Lost in Translation: Google Finds a New Way to Censor
KTRH News' Corey Olsen interviewed me on my recent article on Google Translate. A brief soundbite is available here, and below it is Olsen's writeup of our more in depth discussion, titled "Lost in Translation: Google Finds a New Way to Censor." (The New American also looked into this issue independently here.) We've seen numerous examples in recent years of Google … [Read more...]
Audio: Afghanistan with Raymond Ibrahim on the Glenn Beck Program
Glenn Beck interviewed me about Afghanistan on his radio program the other day. Click here to listen (my 15-minute segment starts around the 14:25 mark, which can be fast-forwarded to). Note: If this link does not work, as it apparently isn't in some European nations, this one might. … [Read more...]
Muslim Perseverance vs Western Myopia: The Real Lesson of Afghanistan
In an interview conducted back in 2005, al-Qaeda’s Ayman al-Zawahiri was asked about the statuses of Osama bin Laden, then leader of al-Qaeda, and Mullah Omar, then leader of the Taliban—the two men most implicated for the September 11, 2001 terror strikes on the U.S. (bin Laden for masterminding it, Omar for providing him with logistical aid and sanctuary). It had been four … [Read more...]