Gatestone Institute Recently, over the course of two weeks, three Christian churches were torched in Egypt. First, on Sunday, October 13, “a massive fire swept through a major Coptic church in a Cairo suburb causing heavy damage, but no casualties.” Online images and video of the St. George Church in Helwan — considered “one of […]
Audio: Turkey Reliving the Glory/Gory Days of Jihad
I did a couple of radio interviews earlier this week on how “Turkey Is Reliving the Glory/Gory Days of Jihad”: On “Kresta in the Afternoon,” which airs on Ave Maria Radio (click here to listen), and on the Denice Gary Show.
The Unholy War Against Christians
Yesterday, Fr. Robert McTeigue, host of the radio program, The Catholic Current, which airs on The Station of the Cross, interviewed me on a variety of topics related to the segment’s title, “The Unholy War Against Christians.” The comprehensive, hour long interview can be listened to here.
Turkey: Reliving the Glory/Gory Days of Jihad
FrontPage Magazine Turkey’s little remarked on but ongoing mistreatment of historic churches is increasingly reflective of that nation’s growing sense of Islamic supremacism. Before the Turks invaded it, Anatolia (present day Turkey) was an ancient Christian region; a large chunk of St. Paul’s epistles were sent to or dealt with its churches, including the seven […]
Shock Therapy from Islamic History
The following article/review of Sword and Scimitar was originally written in the Czech language by Benjamin Kuras, a journalist and author (original here). Titled “Shock Therapy from Islamic History,” it was published on Nov. 25, 2019: Here and there a book appears that has the effect of a therapeutic shock. In today’s confused world, crowded […]
Islam and the West: Motives behind the False Narrative
Any honest and objective appraisal of Islam’s historic jihad on the Christian world must be eye-opening, to say the very least. In the first century of its existence (between 632-732) Islam permanently conquered, Arabized, and Islamized nearly three-quarters of the Christian world, thereby permanently severing it. Europe came to be known as “the West” because […]
The Two-Faced Muslim that Pope Francis Loves and Trusts
FrontPage Magazine On November 15, 2019, two of the foremost representatives of Christianity and Islam, Pope Francis and Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb of Al Azhar—the latter was once named the “most influential Muslim in the world”—met and embraced each other again as brothers. “During the[ir] cordial discussions,” the Vatican announced in a press release, the two […]
The Other Genocide of Christians: On Turks, Kurds, and Assyrians
One of the most refreshing aspects of Resolution 296—which acknowledges the Armenian Genocide, and which the House recently voted overwhelmingly for—is that it also recognizes those other peoples who experienced a genocide under the Ottoman Turks. The opening sentence of Resolution 296 acknowledges “the campaign of genocide against Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syriacs, Arameans, Maronites, […]
CBN News Video: R. Ibrahim on Turkey’s Alleged Role in Nigerian Slaughter of Christians
Late last week I appeared on CBN News to discuss potential terror ties between Turkey and Nigeria, in the context of my recent article, “Turkey: Arming Genocide of Christians in Nigeria?” The video and CBN’s official description follow: “Egyptian TV News Report Alleges Turkey Supplying Weapons to Nigeria’s Boko Haram,” by Steve Warren, 11/14/2019: Raymond […]
“Police Urinated on and Cursed Him for Being Christian”: Muslim Persecution of Christians, September 2019
Gatestone Institute The Slaughter of Christians Nigeria: On September 22, the jihadi group, Boko Haram, released a video depicting the execution of two Christian aid workers. Lawrence Duna Dacighir and Godfrey Ali Shikagham, both members of the Church of Christ in Nations, appeared on their knees, with three armed men behind them, who proceeded to […]