Pajamas Media Translations of this item: Dutch German Editor's note: Substantial portions of the following essay made up part of Mr. Ibrahim's written testimony that was presented to Congress on February 12, 2009 Today, in a time of wars and rumors of wars emanating from the Islamic world — from the current conflict in Gaza, to the saber-rattling of nuclear-armed … [Read more...]
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Studying the Islamic Way of War
National Review Online Translations of this item: Italian Portuguese At the inaugural conference for the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) back in April, presenter LTC Joseph Myers made an interesting point that deserves further elaboration. Though military studies have traditionally valued and absorbed the texts of classical war doctrine … [Read more...]
Islam’s War Doctrines Ignored
Middle East Strategy at Harvard At the recent inaugural conference for the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA), presenter LTC Joseph Myers made an interesting point that deserves further elaboration: that, though military studies have traditionally valued and absorbed the texts of classical war doctrine—such as Clausewitz's On War, Sun Tzu's The Art … [Read more...]
CPAC: ‘RedState’s Brad Slager Speaks With Raymond Ibrahim, Author and Lecturer on Islamic Geopolitical Affairs’
While at the CPAC conference late last month in Orlando, RedState's Brad Slager interviewed me. Below is his writeup, followed by our video: A revealing interview with an expert on radical Islam affairs about the shifting tide of acceptance and censorship, at CPAC 2022 CPAC is a great forum for bringing together conservative politicians, but what is less recognized is that … [Read more...]
An In-Depth Look at Islam’s Achilles Heel
American Thinker The history of Islam and the West has been one of unwavering antagonism and seismic clashes, often initiated by the followers of Muhammad. By the standards of history, nothing between the two forces is as well documented as this long war. Accordingly, for more than a millennium, both educated and not so educated Europeans knew—the latter perhaps … [Read more...]
The Battle of Lepanto: When Turks Skinned Christians Alive for Refusing Islam
Today in history, on October 7, 1571, one of the most cataclysmic clashes between Islam and the West — one where the latter for once crushed and humiliated the former — took place. In 1570, Muslim Turks — in the guise of the Ottoman Empire — invaded the island of Cyprus, prompting Pope Pius V to call for and form a "Holy League" of maritime Catholic nation-states, … [Read more...]
“Raymond Ibrahim 2, CAIR 0 — by KO”
The following interview was conducted by FrontPage Magazine editor, Jamie Glazov (original here): Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Raymond Ibrahim, a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is the author The Al Qaeda Reader (2007), Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians (2013), and Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of … [Read more...]
Audio: “Sword and Scimitar with Raymond Ibrahim”
In a segment titled, "Sword and Scimitar with Raymond Ibrahim," I was recently interviewed on the Abracast podcast for over an hour, on a number of topics, primarily of a historical and militant nature. Description from the program follows; to listen click here. Fresh off his presentation at The Army War College we sit down and talk to author, scholar and Islam Specialist … [Read more...]
Audio: “Raymond Ibrahim – Islam, the West, and COVID-19”
Derek Gilbert, host of View From The Bunker, recently interviewed me on a number of topics (described below from VFTB's website). The 30-minute interview can be listened to here. ISLAMIC ACTIVISTS pressured the U.S. Army War College into canceling a presentation by scholar Raymond Ibrahim last year, apparently convincing the administration that talking about documented … [Read more...]
How “Triggerism” Replaced Factualism on Islam
Once upon a time, whenever two or more parties disagreed, the logical thing for them to do was resort to argumentation: it was not enough to say “I’m right and you’re wrong” (unless they were children). The winner of the debate was the one who could better substantiate their position, that is, the one whose position better accorded with reality. Today, the one side that is … [Read more...]