by Mitri Raheb Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press, 2021. 207 pp. $24.99. Reviewed by Raymond Ibrahim Author of Sword and Scimitar Middle East Quarterly Summer 2022 Raheb, a Lutheran clergyman and academic in Bethlehem, argues that “Christian persecution is a Western construct that says more about the West than about the Christians of the Middle East.” Whatever persecution … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2022
Video: “New Book on the ‘Christian Heroes of the Past'”
Another recent interview on my new book, Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam, in the War Room with Stephen Bannon … [Read more...]
Death for Christian “Blasphemers” in Muslim Pakistan
Gatestone Institute On July 4, 2022, a Christian mechanic, who had been imprisoned for the last five years awaiting trial under a false “blasphemy” accusation, was sentenced to death by hanging in a Pakistani court, for allegedly insulting the Muslim prophet Muhammad. Five years earlier, on June 5, 2017, Ashfaq Masih, 34, got into a quarrel with Muhammad Naveen, a rival who … [Read more...]
Today in History: Christian Spain Crushes Islam on the Battlefield
Today in history, on July 16, 1212, an epic battle — which the Islamic State still vows vengeance for — took place between Christians and Muslims, and presaged the demise of Islam in Spain, five hundred years after Muhammad's followers first invaded and subjugated that nation beginning in 711. From the start, a small pocket of Christian resistance remained in the northwest of … [Read more...]
Video: Battle of Antioch (Part 2)
There wasn't enough time to finish the discussion on the battle of Antioch last time on Stephen Bannon's War Room, so I returned to finish it in the following: … [Read more...]