Today in history, April 6, 1453, the Ottoman Turks began their fateful siege of Constantinople. What prompted it? After all, the Turks and Byzantines had preexisting peace treaties. Did the Turks have a “grievance” against New Rome? No, it was just a good old fashioned jihad, prompted by the same exact logic that had prompted countless jihads before it: convert to … [Read more...]
Death to “Dirty” Christians, Love for “Pure” Muslims during Coronavirus
FrontPage Magazine The Islamic worldview—even concerning things such as disease (e.g., coronavirus)—is fundamentally based on a dichotomy: anything and everything non-Islamic is evil, dirty, to be shunned, hated, and struggled against (“jihad”); anything Islamic is good, clean, to be embraced, loved, and struggled on behalf. A Christian youth recently found this out the … [Read more...]
Raymond Ibrahim Webinar on Islam
I was recently featured in a webinar by the United West's Sharia Crime Stoppers. It follows; beneath it is SCS's official description: Sharia Crime Stoppers Presents: RAYMOND IBRAHIM is a widely published author, public speaker, and Middle East and Islam expert. His books include Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West (Da Capo, 2018), … [Read more...]
American Professors Whitewash Islamic Terror
Muslims have at times allied with Europeans, sometimes even against fellow Muslims; as such, why see any Muslim attacks on Europe as ideologically driven—as jihads (“holy wars”) against the infidel? Why not see them all as generic wars? Such is the academic world’s main apologia against the notion that Islam’s military expansion throughout history was driven by a theological … [Read more...]
“Defying Islamist Protests: Middle East Scholar Speaks at U.S. Army War College”
Note: The following account of my Feb. 26 lecture at the US Army War College was written by Leonard Getz, CPA, the Philadelphia Counter-Islamist Grid Associate at the Middle East Forum. It first appeared in American Thinker: On a 500-acre campus in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Middle East scholar Raymond Ibrahim was finally allowed to give his speech before a packed, mostly … [Read more...]