Note: Sometime back, journalist Niram Ferretti interviewed me for the Italian publication, L’Informale (original here). Pasted below are excerpts from the English version (Ferretti's questions are in bold, my responses not). How much is the concept of jihad intended as holy war, central to the way Islam has interpreted itself during the centuries? The concept of jihad … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2020
“Raymond Ibrahim on the Bottom-Up Oppression of Egypt’s Christians”
“Raymond Ibrahim on the Bottom-Up Oppression of Egypt’s Christians," a summary of my recent Middle East Forum webinar by Gary C. Gambill, general editor at the Forum, was published on August 27, 2020. It follows: Raymond Ibrahim, a Judith Friedman Rosen fellow at the Middle East Forum and a Shillman fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, spoke to participants in a June … [Read more...]