[Note: The following interview was conducted by the Venn Institute with Raymond Ibrahim] Raymond Ibrahim is a widely published author, public speaker, and Middle East and Islam expert, and author most recently of Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians. Follow him on Twitter @RaymondIbrahim5 Venn Institute: Most Americans see persecution of Christians and … [Read more...]
How Dare You?! The Supremacist Nature of Muslim ‘Grievances’
Portuguese Indonesian In 2012 in Pakistan, as Christian children were singing carols inside their church, Muslim men from a nearby mosque barged in with an axe, destroyed the furniture, desecrated the altar, and beat the children. Their justification for such violence? “You are disturbing our prayers…. How dare you use the mike and speakers?” Welcome to the true face … [Read more...]
The Re-Islamicization of Turkey — Deja-Vu All Over Again
by Ralph Sidway, guest contributor (This is an update to my posting here, and Raymond Ibrahim’s recent article.) The re-Islamicization of Turkey continues grinding along, inexorably eclipsing the few remaining signs of Asia Minor’s two millennia of Christian history. The relentless Muslim initiative, to roll back Turkey’s secular stance implemented by Kemal Ataturk nearly a … [Read more...]
Muslim Brotherhood Out, Killing Christians In
Gatestone Institute “In scattered locations across Egypt,” wrote Morning Star News, “mobs of hard-line Muslims enraged over the deposing of the country’s Islamist president [Muhammad Morsi] this week attacked Christian homes, business[es] and church buildings and were suspected in the shooting death of a priest.” None of this should come as a surprise. As I reported … [Read more...]
Revenge: Coptic Church Set Aflame for Morsi
True to their vows, pro-Morsi Muslims are attacking Egypt's Christians for participating in the anti-Morsi protests. The St. George Coptic Christian Church in a village in al-Minya, Egypt, has just been set on fire by "pro-Morsi" forces. Copts are reported to be in a state of "fear and panic." Days earlier, a letter was circulated in al-Minya, which has a very large Coptic … [Read more...]