Gatestone Institute Massacres in and Attacks on Churches Philippines: On Sunday, January 27, Islamic militants bombed a Catholic cathedral during Mass. At least 20 people were killed and 111 wounded. Two explosives were detonated about a minute apart in or near the Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Jolo around 8:45 a.m. According […]
Christian Martyrs of Islamic Jihad: A Recurring Theme
American Thinker Last February 15 marked the four year anniversary of the martyrdom of 21 Christians—20 Coptic Orthodox from Egypt and one Ghanaian. It was commemorated by several groups, including Coptic Solidarity, which summarized the event in a February 15, 2019 statement: This week in 2015, 21 men were brutally beheaded on a Mediterranean beach […]
Raymond Ibrahim and Glenn Beck on Muslim-American Politicians
Earlier today I appeared on Glenn Beck TV. We discussed Islamic tactics of deception and subversion in the context of U.S. politicians, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar. We also discussed similar patterns throughout history in the context of my recent book, Sword and Scimitar, which Glenn called “a great book,” adding, “I recommend it, highly, […]
Report: “11 Christians Killed Every Day for Their Faith”
Gatestone Institute Last year, Christians were persecuted more than ever in the modern era—and this year is expected to be worse: “4,136 Christians were killed for faith-related reasons,” says Open Doors USA in its recently published World Watch List 2019 of the top 50 nations where Christians are persecuted. “On average, that’s 11 Christians killed every […]
Sincere Dialogue with Islam: Its Wages and Benefits
PJ Media What is—or rather should be—the purpose of interfaith dialogue? When the Vatican and Pope Francis announce, as they recently did, that they are engaged in interfaith dialogue with leading Muslims, what exactly are they conveying to the world? What are they accomplishing? The answer to these questions is the difference between what true […]
Jihad: Violent and Cultural, Past and Present
I was recently interviewed on Secure Freedom Radio with Frank Gaffney. Descriptions of and links to the two segments (as they appear on SFR) follow: RAYMOND IBRAHIM, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute and Author of Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War Between Islam and the West (PART ONE):• The history of Islamic […]
“We Will Displace You, O Worshipers of the Cross” Muslim Persecution of Christians, December 2018
Gatestone Institute The Slaughter of Christians Egypt: A Muslim policeman charged with guarding a Coptic Christian church shot and killed two Christians—a father, 49, and his son, 21—on the night of December 12 in Minya. Eyewitnesses say a verbal quarrel had ensued before the officer pulled out his gun and opened fire on the two […]
Islamic Necrophilia: Or, “Every Hole Is a Goal”
PJ Media A Muslim-background man who sexually violated a number of corpses was recently sentenced on February 1 in the UK. According to the report: A warped “monster” who broke into a funeral parlour before having sex with a woman’s corpse has been jailed for six years. Kasim Khuram, 23, forced his way into a […]
Islam: The West’s “Most Formidable and Persistent Enemy”
American Thinker At the height of Western dominance over Islam in the early twentieth century, the European historian Hilaire Belloc made a remarkably prescient observation that may have seemed exaggerated at the time: Millions of modern people of the white civilization—that is, the civilization of Europe and America—have forgotten all about Islam. They have never […]
Pope Francis and His Muslim Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
Gatestone Institute The two foremost representatives of Christianity and Islam, Pope Francis and Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb—the Grand Imam of Al Azhar who was once named the “most influential Muslim in the world”—recently signed “A Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together.” This document “forcefully rejects,” to quote Vatican News, “any justification of […]