The Stream Knowledge or ignorance of history tends to have a profound impact on how knowledgeable or ignorant one is concerning what is really happening in the present. Consider the question of Islam in Europe: European nations that had little history with Islam—mostly in the northwest of the continent—are precisely the ones most open to (and suffering from) it; European … [Read more...]
Why Muslims Hate the Cross: Part 1
The Stream As Christians prepare to celebrate Easter, Muslims continue to desecrate that one symbol most representative of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ: the Crucifix. Most recently in France, on Mar. 16, 2023, a Muslim man smashed a church’s six foot tall cross—which had stood since the 1600s—into pieces. A week earlier, also in France, another Muslim man broke … [Read more...]
Today in History: A Newborn America Learns about Jihad
The Stream Exactly 237 years ago today, on March 28, 1786, two of America’s founding fathers documented the United States’ first exposure to Islamic jihad in an important letter to Congress. One year earlier, in 1785, Muslim pirates from North Africa, or “Barbary,” had captured two American ships, the Maria and Dauphin, and enslaved their crews. In an effort to ransom its … [Read more...]
Audio: Raymond Ibrahim ‘Inside the War Room’
I was a guest on Inside the War Room with Ryan Ray. The 37-minute interview can be accessed here. … [Read more...]
Islam’s Christian Martyrs through the Ages
PJ Media Last February 15, 2023 marked the eight year anniversary of when the Islamic State slaughtered 21 Christians in Libya for refusing to recant their faith. While sitting atop and holding their tied victims’ bodies down, Islamic State members shoved their fingers in the Christians’ eye sockets, craned their heads back, and sliced away at their throats with knives. Some … [Read more...]