Middle East Quarterly [adsenseyu1] In 1933, Turkiya Hassan, an orphaned Egyptian, Muslim girl, was beaten by a matron at a Swedish missionary school. School authorities later contended that the "rude and aggressive" 15-year-old was ordered "into a room for private chastisement" at which time the girl "showed fight and seized the cane" from the matron who soon "regained … [Read more...]
Obama Cites Ayatollah’s Fatwa on Road to Nuclear War
FrontPage Magazine As Iran continues edging closer to developing nuclear weapons—a major threat to the entire Mideast region, especially longstanding U.S. ally Israel—U.S. President Obama has come to the aid of the Islamic Republic, by citing an Islamic fatwa no less. In a video recording posted on the White House’s website, Obama said, “Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah … [Read more...]
Raymond Ibrahim on NewsMax: Mideast Christian Extinction
Earlier today I appeared on NewsMax TV’s “America’s Forum with JD Hayworth” via Skype. The topic of discussion was the very real threat of Christian extinction in the Middle East. The video follows: … [Read more...]
CIA Says Muslims Join ISIS Because of … Economics
PJ Media Speaking at the Council of Foreign Relations on March 13, CIA Director John Brennan said that “the Islamic State had ‘snowballed’ beyond Iraq and Syria, estimating that at least 20,000 fighters from more than 90 countries have gone to join the militant group, several thousand of them from Western nations, including the United States.” “Left unchecked, the group … [Read more...]
Raymond Ibrahim on The Glazov Gang: Jihad on the Offensive
I was on the Glazov Gang during the recent David Horowitz Freedom Center's West Coast Retreat. FrontPage Magazine's description of the panel, and the video of it, follow: This week’s Glazov Gang was joined by scholars Bruce Thornton (Freedom Center Shillman Fellow), Raymond Ibrahim (Freedom Center Shillman Fellow) and Robert Spencer (Director, JihadWatch.org). The three … [Read more...]