I was recently interviewed on Secure Freedom Radio, with Frank Gaffney. Titled, “The Sharia Supremacist Doctrine” and made up of four segments, the 43-minute interview follows. (Beneath it is Secure Freedom Radio’s description). RAYMOND IBRAHIM, Author of Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West (2018); Author of Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War […]
How Saudi ‘Donations’ to American Universities Whitewash Islam
Gatestone Institute Why would the center of illiberalism, religious fanaticism, and misogyny ever sponsor the center of liberalism, secularism, and gender equality? This is the question that crops up when one considers the largesse that human-rights-abusing Saudi Arabia bestows on the leading universities — those putative bastions of progressive, free thinking — in the United […]
Fr. James V. Schall: Sword and Scimitar Is “a Detailed, Well-Researched” and “Most Welcome” Book
James V. Schall, S.J. — a longtime professor of political philosophy at Georgetown University and author of On Islam — recently reviewed my book, Sword and Scimitar. First published in the Catholic World Report, and titled, “On the Purpose of Islam: A Review of Raymond Ibrahim’s Sword and Scimitar,” it follows: “Unlike most military histories—which no matter how […]
Canada Upholds Allah/Muhammad’s Ban on Adoption
PJ Media Many in the West were shocked to learn that, in recently ruling that criticism of Muhammad is tantamount to incitement to hatred and thus not protected free speech, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) had effectively adopted Islamic Sharia’s ban on free speech — a formerly prized and zealously guarded Western right. The greater […]
‘Doormat Christianity’ and the Islamic Invasion
PJ Media A Catholic archbishop recently touched on an unspoken but highly subversive phenomenon: How anti-Christian forces exploit Christian teachings to empower those who seek to dismantle Christian civilization, Muslims being chief among them. In an interview published last summer by the Italian outlet IlGionarle.it, Catholic Archbishop Athanasius Schneider of Kazakhstan said: The phenomenon of so-called […]
Arabic-Language Video: Brother Rachid and Raymond Ibrahim on Sword and Scimitar
I recently appeared on the popular Arabic-language program, Su’al Jari’ (“Daring Question”), hosted by Brother Rachid, a Muslim convert to Christianity with penetrating insights. We discussed my new book, Sword and Scimitar. Titled “The History of the Wars between Islam and the West,” the hour long video (conducted entirely in Arabic) follows:
Andrew G. Bostom/PJ Media on “Raymond Ibrahim’s Historical Reconquista”
Editor’s note: Over at PJ Media, Dr. Andrew G. Bostom, author of the indispensable Legacy of Jihad, reviews my book, Sword and Scimitar. Titled, “Ibrahim’s Historical Reconquista: New Book Reveals Christendom’s 1400-Year Struggle Against Jihad,” a portion of the review follows: […] Like John Quincy Adams’ 1830 essay, Raymond Ibrahim’s new Sword and Scimitar should be requisite reading […]
Raymond Ibrahim on 700 Club: Sword and Scimitar
Earlier today I appeared on the 700 Club with Pat Robertson. During the segment titled, “Religion of Peace? Historian Documents 14 Centuries of War Between Islam and the West,” we discussed my new book, Sword and Scimitar. Although the interview was originally slated for 7 minutes, we ended up talking for 20 minutes. The video […]
Asia Bibi and 1,400 Years of Muhammad ‘Blasphemers’
PJ Media “Hang the infidel” is the cry emanating from thousands of Muslim throats in Pakistan. The reason: Asia Bibi, a Christian woman accused of insulting Islam’s prophet Muhammad, has apparently not suffered enough. As the married mother of five wrote in her smuggled memoirs: “I’ve been locked up, handcuffed and chained, banished from the world […]
Palestinian Authority’s Top Cleric: Jerusalem Is Eternal Jihad’s Greatest Prize
PJ Media The Palestinian Authority has yet again made perfectly clear why achieving peace between Palestinians and Israelis is so difficult. In a speech laden with historical and theological allusions that few in the West — but many in the Muslim world — understand, Mahmoud al-Habbash, the Palestinian Authority’s leading Islamic cleric, supreme Sharia judge, […]