The Stream Is Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, a “bridge” between Islam and Christianity? That’s what a major Muslim scholar, the Ayatollah Ahmad Moballeghi, recently insisted. On September 5, while addressing a conference on interfaith dialogue at the University of Pretoria, the ayatollah showered Mary, a revered figure in Christianity, with praise. Some of his remarks … [Read more...]
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‘Their Throats Were Slit Simply Because They Were Christians’: The Muslim Persecution of Christians, May 2024
Gatestone Institute The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of May 2024. Muslim Slaughter of and Violence against Christians Nigeria: Some May headlines from the ongoing Muslim genocide of Christians in the African nation: May 1: “Fulani Herdsmen Kill 12 Christians in Plateau State, Nigeria” May 6: … [Read more...]
Egypt’s New ‘Islamic Mission City’ Bodes Ill for the World
Coptic Solidarity At a time when Saudi Arabia seems to be retracting from its longtime role of spreading Wahhabi (“radical”) Islam to the world, the Egyptian government has launched a project that indicates it wants to take on the mantle of overseer and disseminator of Islamic education and da‘wa. An entire new city, alternatively known as “Islamic Mission City” or simply … [Read more...]
Report: ‘Raymond Ibrahim Documents the Persecution of Christians, Also in Europe’
Danish journalist Peder Jensen recently wrote a report about my talk in Copenhagen for the website Document.dk. Titled, "Raymond Ibrahim Documents the Persecution of Christians, Also in Europe," an English translation of it, as well as the photo accompanying the report, follow: Author and translator Raymond Ibrahim was born in the United States to Coptic Christian … [Read more...]
‘A Field of Jihad’ The Muslim Persecution of Christians, December 2023 (Christmas Edition)
Gatestone Institute The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of December 2023. Christmas-Timed Slaughters and Nightmares Nigeria: Beginning on Christmas Eve and into Christmas Day, Muslim terrorists massacred nearly 200 Christians. Well-armed Muslim Fulani tribesmen hacked, stabbed, riddled with bullets, and … [Read more...]
The Muslim ‘Vatican’ Declares Open Season on All Israelis
The Stream The more than 1,400 Israelis who were brutally slaughtered by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, got what they deserve—according to the most prestigious university of the Muslim world, Al Azhar, located in Cairo. A fatwa, or authoritative decree, issued on Oct. 19, 2023 by Al Azhar’s Fatwa department, asserts that The term “civilians” does not apply to the Zionist settlers of … [Read more...]
Turkish ‘Princess’ Vows that Islam Will ‘Break the Western Cross’
Resorting to jihadist rhetoric, Esra, the daughter of Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan—who just gained another five years as president—recently attacked the West and Christianity. In a tweet written, not in her native Turkish, but in Islam’s tongue, Arabic, the "first daughter" declared that “There is little left for the Islamic crescent to break the Western … [Read more...]
Bedlam at City Council: Somali ‘Culture’ Takes Minneapolis by Storm
In a May 11, 2023 article, we explored the oft-repeated claim that all cultures are created equal—or, in Pope Francis’s words, “Never again can the Christian community allow itself to be infected by the idea that one culture is superior to others.” Two days later, that claim was put to test right here in the USA, when all bedlam broke lose in Minneapolis. On May 13, 2023: A … [Read more...]
Is Any ‘One Culture Superior to Others’?
Recently, while apologizing to “indigenous peoples” and denouncing Christians—without the all-important historical context—Pope Francis declared that “Never again can the Christian community allow itself to be infected by the idea that one culture is superior to others...” This—claiming all cultures are equal—is a very dangerous position, not least as it leads to … [Read more...]
What’s Behind Reports of a ‘Rampant Rise’ of Necrophilia in Muslim Nations?
Connections between the disturbing practice of necrophilia and Islam are back in the news. "In a shocking revelation," starts one Apr. 29 report, "parents in Pakistan now guard their dead daughters against rape by putting padlocks to their graves. ... [N]ecrophilia cases are on the rise in the country." Addressing this same phenomenon, another report states: That a woman is … [Read more...]