WARNING: ORIENTALIST PAINTINGS DEPICTING FEMALE NUDITY FOLLOW. Last year, a political party in Germany provoked controversy when it used the following painting in its election campaign to illustrate one of the reasons it was against immigration. Painted in France in 1866 and titled “Slave Market,” the painting was described as “show[ing] a black, apparently Muslim slave … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2020
Video: Church Militant’s Exclusive Interview with Raymond Ibrahim on Islam and the West
Michael Voris of Church Militant recently interviewed me. We discussed a number of topics in just over thirty minutes, including Joe Biden's Islamic ties; Armenia and its Muslim neighbors; Europe's volatile present -- made sense by its even more volatile past -- with Islam, and much more. The video -- preceded by its official description by Trey Blanton on the Church … [Read more...]
Doomed to Failure: All of France’s Counter Terror Initiatives
PJ Media A critical question arises in light of the recent spate of fatal terror attacks in France and other European nations: How do you once and for all eradicate “extremism” from Muslim communities living in the West? Western leaders usually respond by citing anything and everything from new “initiatives” meant to foster closer relations between Muslim communities and … [Read more...]
Video: Islamic Terror in Europe Within the Context of History
I was recently interviewed on Sky Watch TV’s “Five in Ten with Derek Gilbert.” The show description and video follow: Three people were killed in the city of Nice Thursday, the third deadly attack linked to violent Islam in France in less than two months. Raymond Ibrahim, author of Sword and Scimitar, explains that this is not “radical” Islam because violence has been part … [Read more...]
How a Fiercely Christian Nation Became Fanatically Islamic
One of the benefits of Adel Guindy’s new book, A Sword Over the Nile: A Brief History of the Copts Under Islamic Rule, is that it implicitly answers an important question: how and why did non-Muslim nations become Islamic? In this case, how did Egypt go from being overwhelmingly Christian in the seventh century, to being overwhelmingly Muslim in the twenty-first century? To … [Read more...]