Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires by Juan ColeNew York: Nation Books, 2018. 336 pp. Reviewed by Raymond IbrahimAuthor of Sword and Scimitar Middle East QuarterlySummer 2019 (view PDF) Note: Cole’s ludicrous pro-Islamic revisionist history, which I review below, is representative of the only sort of history that CAIR and its Islamist allies insist […]
‘Field of Blackbirds’: The 630 Year-Old Reason Eastern Europeans Dislike Islam
Why Eastern Europeans are much more reluctant to accept Muslim migrants than their Western counterparts can be traced back to circumstances surrounding a pivotal battle, that of Kosovo, which took place on June 15, 1389, exactly 630 years ago today. It pitted Muslim invaders against Eastern European defenders, or the ancestors of those many Eastern […]
Washington Times: ‘War College Cancels Speaker on Islam’
Note: The following report by national security columnist Bill Gertz on the US Army War College’s surrender to CAIR’s slander campaign appeared in the Washington Times, June 12, 2019: A Muslim activist group has pressured the U.S. Army War College into postponing a speech by Ray Ibrahim, an expert on the historical roots of Islamic terrorism, […]
They Are ‘Infidels and No Good!’: Muslim Persecution of Christians, March, 2019
Gatestone Institute When it comes to violence between Muslims and non-Muslims, March news was dominated by the Christchurch, New Zealand massacres, where an Australian man killed 51 Muslims in two mosques on March 15. However, to place matters in perspective, a statistical report did some number crunching and found that “a Christian living in a […]
Islam’s Greatest Victory: The Fall of Constantinople, May 29, 1453
Today in history, on May 29, 1453, the sword of Islam conquered Constantinople. Of all of Islam’s conquests of Christian territory, this was by far the most symbolically significant. For not only was Constantinople a living and direct extension of the old Roman Empire and current capital of the Christian Roman Empire (or Byzantium), but […]
“Deep Spiritual Crisis”: Scandinavian Women Expose the West’s Root Problems
The following brief but highly informative interview appeared earlier this year on Herland Report TV. Titled, “Europe: Deep Spiritual Crisis,” the host, Hanne Nabintu Herland, a Norwegian historian of religions and journalist, interviews Iben Thranholm, a Danish theologian and journalist. Both women are to be commended for raising many important points—indeed, for getting to […]
Burkina Faso: The New Land of Islamic Jihad and Christian Slaughter
Gatestone Institute Last Sunday, May 12, in the small West African nation of Burkina Faso, as many as 30 armed Islamic terrorists stormed a Catholic church, slaughtered at least six Christian worshippers—including the officiating priest—and then burned the church to the ground. Ousmane Zongo, the mayor of Dablo, where the attack occurred, recalled the incident: […]
Video: “Desecration of European Churches”
I was recently interviewed on Sky Watch TV’s “Five in Ten with Derek Gilbert.” The show description and video follow: While there is no evidence yet that the fire at Notre Dame Cathedral was deliberately set, Raymond Ibrahim, author of Sword and Scimitar, reports that Christian churches in France are being vandalized at the rate […]
Video: “Daily Life for Christians in Egypt”
Earlier I appeared via Skype on Colliding Worldviews, a program on ABN’s Trinity Channel, hosted by Tony Gurule. Titled, “Daily Life for Christians in Egypt,” the 30-minute interview follows. Discussions range from the distant past and the much misunderstood colonial era, to the present era, particularly in the context of the Muslim Brotherhood and President […]
Just War vs Just Plain-Old Jihad
Wherever one looks, the historic crusades against Islam are demonized and distorted in ways designed to exonerate jihadi terror. “Unless we get on our high horse,” Barak Obama once chided Americans who were overly critical of Islamic terror, “and think this [beheadings, sex-slavery, crucifixion, roasting humans] is unique to some other place, remember that during […]