The Observatoire International de la Dhimmitude ("International Observatory of Dhimmitude") an organization based in France and headed by Bat Ye'or, recently interviewed me on two interrelated themes: the persecution of Christians, particularly in Nigeria, and the censorship of that and related topics in the West. My portion begins around the 35-minute mark, with some Q&A … [Read more...]
Ibrahim Radio Interview: “Armenia and Other Christian Persecutions”
In a 53-minute-long audio segment titled “Armenia and Other Christian Persecutions," Fr. McTeigue recently interviewed me on The Catholic Current. A number of topics aside from those in the title were discussed. Click hear to listen. … [Read more...]
Butchered in an “Atrocious Way”: Muslim Persecution of Christians, October 2020
Gatestone Institute The following are among the abuses Muslims inflicted on Christians throughout the month of October, 2020: Slaughtered Christians and Terrorized Churches France: On October 29, a Muslim man wielding a knife entered the Notre Dame Cathedral of Nice and, while shouting “Allahu Akbar [Allah is greater],” beheaded a Christian woman and stabbed two others to … [Read more...]
Chipped Away into Nonexistence: Armenia Surrounded by Islam
“Peace” was recently achieved between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which had been fighting for nearly two months, after the Christian nation agreed to cede its ancestral lands in Artsakh to its Muslim neighbor. From a temporal and myopic point of view, such a settlement may seem progressive; from a long point of view it is regressive and reflective of the continuum of … [Read more...]
How a Fiercely Christian Nation Became Fanatically Islamic
One of the benefits of Adel Guindy’s new book, A Sword Over the Nile: A Brief History of the Copts Under Islamic Rule, is that it implicitly answers an important question: how and why did non-Muslim nations become Islamic? In this case, how did Egypt go from being overwhelmingly Christian in the seventh century, to being overwhelmingly Muslim in the twenty-first century? To … [Read more...]