An 18-year-old Muslim man beheaded a school teacher in France last Friday for showing cartoons of Islam’s prophet Muhammad to his students, in the context of discussing free speech and expression. Some weeks earlier, another Muslim teenager killed an American citizen in Pakistan for also committing “blasphemy.” The murdered man, Tahir Naseem, was actually being […]
Video: French Beheading with Raymond Ibrahim in Stephen Bannon’s War Room
I was in the War Room with Stephen Bannon a few minutes ago, discussing the recent blasphemy related beheading in France. The video follows; the segment begins around the 52:30 mark
The Greatest Example of Muslim Deceit (Taqiyya) in Western History
Recently we learned that Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad al-Qasimi, member of the Supreme Council of the UAE and ruler of Sharjah, called for the transformation of the Cathedral of Cordoba back to the Mosque of Cordoba, since Spain’s Christians “don’t deserve it.” What we weren’t told is what occasioned him to say this—the all-important […]
Turkey Rekindles the Armenian Genocide
FrontPage Magazine As it has done in other arenas where “extremists” are attacking moderates or Christians—from Syria to Libya to Nigeria—Turkey is spearheading another jihad, this time against Christian Armenia. Context: Fighting recently erupted in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, which borders Armenia and Azerbaijan. Although it is ethnically Armenian, after the dissolution of the USSR, […]
Biden’s “Allah Willing” in Context
During the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, while the president was saying that he would release his tax returns once an ongoing IRS audit ends, Biden interrupted him by saying, “When—insha’allah?” The utterance of this Arabic phrase, which simply means “Allah willing,” by the Democratic candidate is strange, and a bit […]
Usul al-Fiqh: The (Misunderstood) Key to Islamic Fanaticism
An interesting but little remarked upon linguistic distortion may hold the key to understanding the Muslim mentality. Whoever undertakes a deeper study of Islam must early on encounter the Arabic term uṣūl al-fiqh, which is almost always translated as “sources of jurisprudence.” Here is a standard definition from the Encyclopædia Britannica: Uṣūl al-fiqh, the sources […]
Blasphemy: Islam’s Achilles Heel
All around the Islamic world, and even in the West, “blasphemers”—those who would talk against Islam—are under attack; some are murdered, many imprisoned. Validating this assertion is almost futile, as blasphemy-related stories surface with extreme regularity. The recent murder of an American citizen being tried for blasphemy in a Pakistani courtroom is just the most […]
The Scary Answer to Trump’s Question on Ilhan Omar
Yesterday, while speaking at a Minnesota rally, President Donald Trump inquired as to how Congresswoman Ilhan Omar—“a horrible woman who hates our country” and who “called the Minneapolis police a cancer and said they were rotten to the root”—won in that state’s Democratic primaries last week. Asked an exasperated Trump: How the hell did she […]
Audio: “It’s Been Nearly Two Decades Since 9/11 with Raymond Ibrahim”
On September 11, 2020, Al Kresta of Ave Maria Radio’s Kresta in the Afternoon interviewed me. The title of the 25-minute segment is “It’s Been Nearly Two Decades since 9/11 – Why Are We Still Ignorant on Islam?” It can be listened to here (and fast-forwarding to the 4:09). The program’s official description follows: A […]
The Murder of an American “Blasphemer” in Pakistan
Gatestone Institute A recent murder has cast a “fresh spotlight on Pakistan’s blasphemy laws”: on July 29, 2020, Tahir Naseem, 57, a U.S. citizen, was shot dead in a Pakistani courtroom, during a bail hearing for the charge of blasphemy, which included “denigrating the Koran and the Prophet Muhammad,” Reuters reported. Although his teenage slayer […]