PJ MediaAnother 9/11 anniversary has just passed. It was an especially painful one, considering that those implicated in the attacks that killed more than 3,000 Americans two decades earlier are not only free, but back in power—and armed to the teeth with U.S. weaponry—in Afghanistan, namely, the Taliban.The gloating from millions of Muslim sympathizers around the world … [Read more...]
The Armenian Genocide: Past, Present, and Future?
Doc Emet ProductionsOn April 24, 2021, Joe Biden became the first sitting U.S. president formally to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide. What was this genocide about, and what is its significance for today?The Genocide Education Project offers a summary of that tragic event which transpired during World War I, specifically between 1915 and 1917: More than one million … [Read more...]
Video: Raymond Ibrahim on ‘Afghan Jihadists Emboldened’
I recently appeared on 'America, Can We Talk?' with Debbie Georgatos in a segment titled "Afghan Jihadists Emboldened." Several topics were discussed in the near 30-minute video, which follows: … [Read more...]
The Eternal Jihad: Afghanistan in Context
Although August 15, 2021 will forever live in infamy as the date when the Taliban reconquered Afghanistan, for over 13 centuries that date was famous for another event—Constantinople’s defeat of the caliphate, August 15, 718. While these two events separated by exactly 1,303 years are vastly different in nature—not least that in 718 Islam lost, while in 2021 it won—they both … [Read more...]
Today in History: Turkey is Born of Jihad
Today in history, on August 26, 1071, one of the most decisive battles in all world history took place, that of Manzikert, without which there would be no modern nation of Turkey to speak of—much less centuries of jihadist conquests and atrocities in the Balkans.It is, in fact, a battle that Turkey is celebrating today, as it does annually. Its hero, Seljuk … [Read more...]