Note: The following account of my Feb. 26 lecture at the US Army War College was written by Leonard Getz, CPA, the Philadelphia Counter-Islamist Grid Associate at the Middle East Forum. It first appeared in American Thinker: On a 500-acre campus in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Middle East scholar Raymond Ibrahim was finally allowed to give his speech before a packed, mostly … [Read more...]
Conclusion: Army War College, CAIR, and Raymond Ibrahim
On February 26, 2020, I spoke at the U.S. Army War College’s Heritage and Education Center in Carlisle, Penn. The title (and topic) of my talk was lifted from my last book: Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West. Since then, I have received a number of questions concerning this hitherto "controversial" event—how it was, how I was, if there … [Read more...]
Terrorism-Linked CAIR Protests My Scheduled Talk at US Army War College — Again
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (“CAIR”)—also known as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the largest terrorist funding case in U.S. history and a designated “terrorist organization” for nations allied to America—is again vehemently protesting my forthcoming appearance at the U.S. Army War College, urging the latter to “reconsider its decision and disinvite Ibrahim,” … [Read more...]
Update: Raymond Ibrahim to Speak at U.S. Army War College Next Week
I am scheduled to lecture about my book, Sword and Scimitar, at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle Barracks, PA, next week. The description and flyer of the event, as they appear on the U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center, a branch of the War College, follows. Events Wed, February 26, 2020 Sword and Scimitar Download the flyer On Wednesday, … [Read more...]
Exposed: Islam’s Role in the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Islam’s history with the West has been one of unwavering antagonism and seismic clashes, often initiated by the former. By the standards of history, nothing between the two civilizations is as well documented as this long war. Accordingly, for more than a millennium, both educated and not so educated Europeans knew—the latter perhaps instinctively—that Islam was a militant … [Read more...]