FrontPage Magazine Prior to my February 26 US Army War College talk, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (“CAIR”), Islamist activist Linda Sarsour, and their leftist allies began another round of press releases and petitions, referring to me as an “infamous Islamophobe” and urging the War College to cancel my lecture on Sword and Scimitar, which CAIR insisted would be … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2020
Sex-Slavery: An Islamic Sacrament?
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...]