“If Islam is terrorizing the West today, that is not because it can, but because the West allows it to. For no matter how diminished, a still swinging Scimitar will always overcome a strong but sheathed Sword.” Those are the very last words of my 352-page book, Sword and Scimitar, which chronicles fourteen centuries of […]
Jihad and Criminality: Inseparable Bedfellows
It’s official: Islamic jihad and generic criminality are intimately connected. According to an earlier UK study: The lines between terrorism and criminality are becoming blurred as an increasing number of former criminals join the Islamic State… Nearly 60 percent of European jihadists studied by researchers had been jailed previously… Once recruited by ISIS, these people easily transition to […]
The Unholy War Against Christians
Yesterday, Fr. Robert McTeigue, host of the radio program, The Catholic Current, which airs on The Station of the Cross, interviewed me on a variety of topics related to the segment’s title, “The Unholy War Against Christians.” The comprehensive, hour long interview can be listened to here.
Turkey: Reliving the Glory/Gory Days of Jihad
FrontPage Magazine Turkey’s little remarked on but ongoing mistreatment of historic churches is increasingly reflective of that nation’s growing sense of Islamic supremacism. Before the Turks invaded it, Anatolia (present day Turkey) was an ancient Christian region; a large chunk of St. Paul’s epistles were sent to or dealt with its churches, including the seven […]
Shock Therapy from Islamic History
The following article/review of Sword and Scimitar was originally written in the Czech language by Benjamin Kuras, a journalist and author (original here). Titled “Shock Therapy from Islamic History,” it was published on Nov. 25, 2019: Here and there a book appears that has the effect of a therapeutic shock. In today’s confused world, crowded […]
Islam and the West: Motives behind the False Narrative
Any honest and objective appraisal of Islam’s historic jihad on the Christian world must be eye-opening, to say the very least. In the first century of its existence (between 632-732) Islam permanently conquered, Arabized, and Islamized nearly three-quarters of the Christian world, thereby permanently severing it. Europe came to be known as “the West” because […]
American Thinker: “Raymond Ibrahim and the History the Army Refuses to Heed”
On November 13, 2019, American Thinker published a review by John Dale Dunn, titled “Raymond Ibrahim and the History the Army Refuses to Heed.” A shortened version follow: In the book Sword and Scimitar Raymond Ibrahim, an Egyptian Christian, tells the story of the millennium-plus of conflict between Islam and Western (Christian) Nations, structured on 8 landmark […]
Video: Middle East Forum/NY Divinity School Host Raymond Ibrahim
This summer I spoke at the NY Divinity School, in an event arranged by the Middle East Forum. I discussed the much needed historical context of the Muslim world’s rage against the Western world. The nearly hour-long talk, followed by a Q&A moderated by Daniel Pipes, follows:
Ilhan Omar’s Anti-American, Pro-Islamic Polemic on the Armenian Genocide
Earlier this week the House voted overwhelmingly (405-11) in favor of formally recognizing the Armenian Genocide, which was perpetrated by Ottoman Turks. Among those miniscule few to vote “present,” thereby abstaining from voting, was Minnesotan Democrat, Ilhan Omar. Her logic was expressed in a tweet: A true acknowledgement of historical crimes against humanity must include […]
The “Most Colossal Crime of All Ages”
FrontPage Magazine An ugly truth of history has just been acknowledged. On October 29, the US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly (405 to 11) in favor of Resolution 296, which officially acknowledges the Armenian genocide perpetrated by Ottoman Turks during WW1. (Unsurprisingly, Ilhan Omar was among the very few to abstain; her disingenuous logic will […]