The National Association of Scholars (NAS), “the leading organization of scholars and citizens committed to higher education as the catalyst of American freedom,” has come forth in my support and written an open letter to the President of the United States. The signatories, most of whom are academics, call President Trump’s attention to the US […]
Piracy and Law in the Ottoman Mediterranean
Piracy and Law in the Ottoman Mediterranean by Joshua M. WhiteStanford: Stanford University Press, 2017. 376 pp. Reviewed by Raymond IbrahimAuthor of Sword and Scimitar Middle East Quarterly, Summer 2019 In the late sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire and its European opponents increasingly withdrew from the Mediterranean, their primary theater of war, leaving it to privateer […]
Washington Times: “Global Jihad’s Information Warfare Campaign”
Note: The following Washington Times article (Jun 18) was written by Joseph C. Myers, a retired Army lieutenant colonel who specializes in counterterrorism and insurgency issues. He served in Afghanistan and as a Defense Intelligence Agency analyst, and authored the important essay, “The Quranic Concept of War.” The mission statement of the U.S. Army Heritage and […]
Juan Cole’s Imaginary Muhammad
Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires by Juan ColeNew York: Nation Books, 2018. 336 pp. Reviewed by Raymond IbrahimAuthor of Sword and Scimitar Middle East QuarterlySummer 2019 (view PDF) Note: Cole’s ludicrous pro-Islamic revisionist history, which I review below, is representative of the only sort of history that CAIR and its Islamist allies insist […]
Western Journal: “Did Army College Just Cave? Islam Expert Postponed After Muslim Activists’ Uproar”
Note: The following report by Ryan Ledendecker appeared on the Western Journal’s Conservative Tribune on June 15. It also has a poll asking readers if the War College should have caved in to CAIR or not (in a red box half way through the article here). An earlier report titled “US Army War College Drops […]
“Army War College Sides with CAIR ,” Says Center for Security Policy
Note: The following article by Christopher Holton, Vice President for Outreach at the Center for Security Policy, appeared on the CSP site today and is especially useful because it notes several examples of CAIR’s subversive agenda and malignant role in the American body politic: Raymond Ibrahim is one of the most esteemed and intrepid experts […]
The Facts: Why the US Army War College Surrendered to CAIR
The US Army War College (USAWC) has just surrendered to the demands of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)—an “unindicted co-conspirator,” to quote the U.S. Dept. of Justice, in the largest terror funding case in American history, and a designated “terrorist organization” for nations such as the UAE. The June 19, 2019 planned lecture on […]
War College Capitulates to Terrorist-Linked Islamist Group
Below is one of the interviews I did yesterday concerning the US Army War College’s capitulation to CAIR—an “unindicted co-conspirator,” to quote the U.S. Dept. of Justice, with a very long paper trail of treacherous behavior and terroristic ties (see here, here, and here for example). Much more information on what really went down to […]
Linda Sarour & CAIR’s Disingenuous Campaign to Suppress Free Speech at US Army War College
Note: The following article, titled “Linda Sarour & CAIR’s Disingenuous Campaign Against US Army War College,” and written by Meira Svirsky for the Clarion Project, appeared earlier today and complements the one I wrote yesterday: Linda Sarsour and her platform MPower Change has joined the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)in an hysterical campaign to get Islamic scholar Raymond […]
CAIR “Demands” US Army War College Cancel Raymond Ibrahim Lecture on Muslim History
The “unindicted co-conspirator” Council on American-Muslim Relations (“CAIR”) and its Islamist allies are “outraged” because the US Army War College in Carlisle, PA, has invited me to give a lecture on my recent book, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West. On May 28, CAIR’s PA leadership—namely Jacob Bender, Timothy […]