[Order Shillman Fellow Raymond Ibrahim's Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam: HERE.] Mark Tapson is the Shillman Fellow on Popular Culture for the David Horowitz Freedom Center. The following review by Tapson was first published by FrontPage Magazine. Historiography has been dominated in recent decades almost exclusively by leftists determined … [Read more...]
The Politics of Persecution: Middle Eastern Christians in an Age of Empire
by Mitri Raheb Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press, 2021. 207 pp. $24.99. Reviewed by Raymond Ibrahim Author of Sword and Scimitar Middle East Quarterly Summer 2022 Raheb, a Lutheran clergyman and academic in Bethlehem, argues that “Christian persecution is a Western construct that says more about the West than about the Christians of the Middle East.” Whatever persecution … [Read more...]
Sword and Scimitar “Gives a More Complete Account of the Troubled History between Islam and Christianity than Is Generally Available”
The following partial book review of Raymond Ibrahim's Sword and Scimitar was written by John C. Zimmerman, of the University of Nevada Las Vegas, and appeared in Terrorism and Political Violence (33:8, 1824-1825, DOI), a journal of the Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. The complete review can be accessed here. Many current accounts of the long struggle between Islam and … [Read more...]
King ‘Cherry-Picker’ Juan Cole Accuses Jihadists of Cherry-Picking the Koran
Juan Cole—an academic who excels at cherry-picking when not completely distorting the Koran—recently published an article that opens by, irony of ironies, accusing jihadists of “cherry picking” Koran verses to justify their terrorism: One of the great tragedies of the early twenty-first century is that the great civilization of Islam, over 1400 years old and with tremendous … [Read more...]
What Catholics Need to Know about Islam
Of the various strands of Christianity, historically, Catholicism was the chief enemy of Islam. It was the popes who called for the crusades; and it was Catholics who took the cross. Times have changed, radically. Today, the Catholic Church’s hierarchy stands among the greatest apologists for Islam. Europe’s top cardinal, Jean-Claude Hollerich, recently said, for … [Read more...]