The “unindicted co-conspirator” Council on American-Muslim Relations (“CAIR”) and its Islamist allies are “outraged” because the US Army War College in Carlisle, PA, has invited me to give a lecture on my recent book, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West. On May 28, CAIR’s PA leadership—namely Jacob Bender, Timothy […]
The Jihad on the Christian Cross
A 37-year-old Muslim migrant in Rome was recently arrested for homicide after he stabbed a Christian man in the throat for wearing a crucifix around his neck. “Religious hate” is cited as an “aggravating factor” in the crime. This is hardly the first “religious hate” crime to occur in the context of the cross in […]
They Are ‘Infidels and No Good!’: Muslim Persecution of Christians, March, 2019
Gatestone Institute When it comes to violence between Muslims and non-Muslims, March news was dominated by the Christchurch, New Zealand massacres, where an Australian man killed 51 Muslims in two mosques on March 15. However, to place matters in perspective, a statistical report did some number crunching and found that “a Christian living in a […]
Islam’s Greatest Victory: The Fall of Constantinople, May 29, 1453
Today in history, on May 29, 1453, the sword of Islam conquered Constantinople. Of all of Islam’s conquests of Christian territory, this was by far the most symbolically significant. For not only was Constantinople a living and direct extension of the old Roman Empire and current capital of the Christian Roman Empire (or Byzantium), but […]
Genocide of Christians Reaches “Alarming Stage”
Gatestone Institute Translations of this item: Dutch, French, German, Italian Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish “Christian persecution ‘at near genocide levels,’” the title of a May 3 BBC report, cites a lengthy interim study ordered by British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and led by Rev. Philip Mounstephen, the Bishop of Truro. According to the BBC report, one in three […]
Reversing the Roles of Crusade and Jihad
Editor’s note: The following book review by Raymond Ibrahim of William R. Polk’s book, Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War between the Muslim World and the Global North (Yale University press, Jan. 2018) first appeared in the Christian Research Journal. ——– From beginning to end, Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War between the Muslim World and the […]
“Deep Spiritual Crisis”: Scandinavian Women Expose the West’s Root Problems
The following brief but highly informative interview appeared earlier this year on Herland Report TV. Titled, “Europe: Deep Spiritual Crisis,” the host, Hanne Nabintu Herland, a Norwegian historian of religions and journalist, interviews Iben Thranholm, a Danish theologian and journalist. Both women are to be commended for raising many important points—indeed, for getting to […]
Burkina Faso: The New Land of Islamic Jihad and Christian Slaughter
Gatestone Institute Last Sunday, May 12, in the small West African nation of Burkina Faso, as many as 30 armed Islamic terrorists stormed a Catholic church, slaughtered at least six Christian worshippers—including the officiating priest—and then burned the church to the ground. Ousmane Zongo, the mayor of Dablo, where the attack occurred, recalled the incident: […]
Radical Islam’s Existential Threat to Christianity Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Note: The following report originally appeared on CBN News: Middle Eastern Christians have endured a long and violent history at the hands of radical Muslims. At the turn of the 20th century, Christians made up 20 percent of the population in the Middle East. Today, that number is only 3-5 percent. “Christians have been harassed in more […]
Painting of Muslim Men Sexually Enslaving White Women Triggers Outrage
To highlight the apparent threat male Muslim migrants pose to women in Germany, a political party has triggered many on both sides of the Atlantic by using an older painting in its campaign. Painted in France in 1866 and titled “Slave Market,” the painting “shows a black, apparently Muslim slave trader displaying a naked young […]