Today in history, on July 16, 1212, an epic battle—which the Islamic State still vows vengeance for—took place between Christians and Muslims, and presaged the demise of Islam in Spain, five hundred years after Muhammad’s followers first invaded and subjugated that nation beginning in 711. From the start, a small pocket of Christian resistance remained in the … [Read more...]
France Learns about Islam’s 1,400 Year Assault via French Sword and Scimitar
Note: My book, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West, was recently translated into French and released in France. Arnaud Imatz of the French magazine La Nef interviewed me about it (online version here). The full English version of that interview follows (a much shorter version appears here). ------ The American Raymond Ibrahim has just … [Read more...]
Pope Francis: ‘Tear Down the Walls’ against Islam
Pope Francis wants any and all walls, real or figurative, that stand between the West and Islam broken down immediately — or so he's constantly saying. Most recently, on Sunday, June 13, 2021, he called for the "growth of a more supportive humanity that tears down the wall of indifference." This was spoken in the context of urging Europeans to take in more illegally arrived … [Read more...]
‘Racist,’ ‘Xenophobe,’ ‘Tyrant’: Hungarian PM Slandered for Speaking the Truth on Islam
Criticism against Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is again on the rise, now that his nation is set to take the presidency of the Visegrad group of Central European nations next month. According a recent report, “Britain’s government has condemned comments made by Viktor Orbán about Muslims and migrants on the eve of a bilateral meeting between the Hungarian leader and UK … [Read more...]
What Erdoğan’s ‘Hero’ Says about Turkey
Conquering Christians and turning their churches into mosques seems to be very much on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s mind these days. Last Friday, June 4, he “spoke of the Turkish legacy of conquest and the conversion of the Hagia Sophia [into a mosque] during a mosque opening in the city of Zonguldak on Friday.” In his own words, “the re-opening of the Hagia … [Read more...]