Obama recently lashed out against the idea of giving preference to Christian refugees, describing it as “shameful”: “That's not American. That's not who we are. We don't have religious tests to our compassion,” loftily added the American president. Accordingly, the administration is still determined to accept 10,000 more Syrian refugees, almost all of whom will be Muslim, … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2015
Al Azhar and ISIS: Cause and Effect
Coptic Solidarity Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah Nasr, a scholar of Islamic law and graduate of Egypt’s Al Azhar University—regularly touted as the world’s most prestigious Islamic university—recently exposed his alma mater in a televised interview. After being asked why Al Azhar, which is in the habit of denouncing secular thinkers as un-Islamic, refuses to denounce the … [Read more...]
D.C. Refuses to Arm Persecuted Christians Fighting ISIS
In recent months, Mideast Christians have been forming militias to fight the Islamic State (IS) and other jihadi groups in both Iraq and Syria—even as the Obama administration, which arms the “opposition,” refuses to arm them. In Iraq, some of the few remaining Assyrian Christians have formed militias under the name Dwekh Nawsha (literally meaning “self-sacrifice” in … [Read more...]
Radio Interview: Raymond Ibrahim on the Paris Jihad and the Western Enemy Within
Yesterday I was interviewed by Al Kresta on Ave Maria Radio. We discussed last Friday's Paris jihad and the Western enemy within. Click here to listen to the interview. … [Read more...]
Lessons from Paris
By Bill Muehlenberg So France is now sending war planes into Syria to go after IS. Good. But why was this not done many months ago? Why did it have to wait for so many more of its own innocent citizens to be slaughtered before finally waking up and doing its duty? Western leaders seem as clueless and brainless about Islam and terrorism as so many of our media elites and … [Read more...]