Muslims have at times allied with Europeans, sometimes even against fellow Muslims; as such, why see any Muslim attacks on Europe as ideologically driven—as jihads (“holy wars”) against the infidel? Why not see them all as generic wars? Such is the academic world’s main apologia against the notion that Islam’s military expansion throughout history was driven by a theological … [Read more...]
Army Times Defends Terrorist-Linked CAIR
FrontPage Magazine Prior to my February 26 US Army War College talk, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (“CAIR”), Islamist activist Linda Sarsour, and their leftist allies began another round of press releases and petitions, referring to me as an “infamous Islamophobe” and urging the War College to cancel my lecture on Sword and Scimitar, which CAIR insisted would be … [Read more...]
UN, UK Treating Persecuted Christians as “Enemies”
Gatestone Institute The United Nations Refugee Agency appears to be committed to blocking persecuted Christians from receiving any assistance. According to a recent CBN News report: Christian Syrian refugees … have been blocked from getting help from the United Nations Refugee Agency, the UNHCR, by Muslim UN officials in Jordan. One of the refugees, Hasan, a Syrian … [Read more...]
Video: R. Ibrahim on Pensacola, Pelosi, and More
Yesterday I was interviewed on America Can We Talk? with Debbie Georgatos. The Pensacola terror attack and the Pelosi-CAIR alliance concerning Trump's so-called "Muslim ban" are among some of the topics discussed in the 24-minute video that follows: … [Read more...]
No More Swords in the West, Only Scimitars
“If Islam is terrorizing the West today, that is not because it can, but because the West allows it to. For no matter how diminished, a still swinging Scimitar will always overcome a strong but sheathed Sword.” Those are the very last words of my 352-page book, Sword and Scimitar, which chronicles fourteen centuries of warfare between Islam and the West. They were meant to … [Read more...]