FrontPage Magazine On September 20, Donald Trump asserted that “I defeated the caliphate…. I defeated the caliphate — ISIS. ” Is this true? Considering that Trump can passingly say that the sky is blue before the media and various “experts” rush to insist otherwise, naturally various elements deny this latest claim as well. The facts, however, […]
Islamic Jihad: Why No Life Is Safe
FrontPage Magazine On September 11, 2019—the eighteenth anniversary of the 9/11 terror strikes on U.S. soil—al-Qaeda leader Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri released a video praising that “blessed raid” and inciting Muslims for more like it, particularly against American, European, Israeli, and Russian targets. One of the more interesting aspects of the video is that the 68-year-old […]
Trump’s ‘Islam Hates Us’ Returns
Donald Trump’s infamous assertion “Islam hates us,” which he made over three years ago while campaigning for president, continues to anger his opponents. Most recently, Democratic presidential hopefuls Julián Castro and Bernie Sanders cited it in their efforts to court Muslim votes in Houston. Soon after being introduced by his Muslim campaign manager, Faiz Shakir, […]
The 21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs
Note: The following is a book review of The 21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs by Martin Mosebach. A shorter version was first published by the Middle East Quarterly (Fall 2019, Vol. 26, No. 4). To learn as much as possible of the 21 Coptic Christians martyred for refusing to recant their […]
Ibrahim on Steel on Steel: Christian Persecution, Mexican Border, Political Correctness, and More
I was recently interviewed on Steel on Steel with John Loeffler. “Coptic Christian persecution in Egypt, Islamic terrorists at our southern border, the different perceptions of moderate and radical Muslims, and the political correctness that keeps us from getting at the truth,” were among some of the topics we discussed in the 30-minute interview, which […]
“Nothing More than a Slut, a White Whore!”
FrontPage Magazine Western women are to blame for being raped by Muslim men. Such is the latest position—the latest apologia—being offered by those Western elements dedicated to exonerating undesirable Muslim behavior, particularly in order to continue taking in more Muslim migrants. According to an August 9, 2019 report, “in the Swedish city of Uppsala … four […]
Egypt Reinstates Hate Preaching against Non-Muslims
FrontPage Magazine Egypt’s leading authorities have reinstated a notoriously “radical” cleric and hate preacher to the pulpit (minbar), despite strong opposition. According to Arab Weekly, “The Egyptian Ministry of Religious Endowments, which controls the mosques, gave Yasser Burhami, the deputy head of the Salafist Call, the umbrella organisation of Salafi movements, approval to deliver sermons […]
“Tomorrow We Are Coming to Kill You All!” Muslim Persecution of Christians, June 2019
Gatestone Institute Slaughter of Christians Mali: On June 9, Islamic Fulani gunmen massacred 95 Christians—including women and children—during their rampage of a Christian village, which they set ablaze before leaving; several of the slain were burned alive. “About 50 heavily armed men arrived on motorbikes and pickups,” a survivor recalled. “They first surrounded the village […]
The Many Faces of Jihad
FrontPage Magazine One of the longest standing apologias for Islam is that the Arabic word jihad does not mean “holy war,” as earlier scholars (mostly Orientalists) often translated it. Rather, we are repeatedly reminded—especially by those notorious for whitewashing Islam—that jihad simply means to “strive” for something, with no necessary connotation of violence. While this […]
The Widespread Muslim Desecration of Christian Graves
Gatestone Institute Although the Islamic persecution of actual, living Christians is certainly more deplorable, Islamic attacks on inanimate Christian symbols are often more indicative of the existential hate borne for the other. Consider, for instance, the phenomenon of Muslims desecrating and destroying Christian cemeteries and their crosses. While the act itself is largely “symbolic”—in that […]