Soon after Muslim gunmen killed 12 people at Charlie Hebdo offices, which published satirical caricatures of Muslim prophet Muhammad, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)—the “collective voice of the Muslim world” and second largest inter-governmental organization after the United Nations—is again renewing calls for the United Nations to criminalize “blasphemy” … [Read more...]
Obama: Christianity No Different Than Islamic State
FrontPage Magazine As the world reacts with shock and horror at the increasingly savage deeds of the Islamic State (IS)—most recently the immolation of a captive—U.S. President Obama’s response has been one of nonjudgmental relativism. Speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast on February 5, Obama counseled Americans to get off their “high horse” and remember that … [Read more...]
Islamic Violence, the MSM, and I
FrontPage Magazine Two events recently transpired that forced mainstream media to address a question they habitually dodge: Is Islam intrinsically violent? First, on New Year’s Day, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi—a world leader, and a Muslim—did the unthinkable when he publicly asserted that Islamic texts and thinking have made the Muslim world a scourge to … [Read more...]
Are Muslims Idolaters?
Editor’s note: The following was written for RaymondIbrahim.com by an anonymous American teacher living in the Muslim world While living as a Christian in the Islamic world, one should expect the occasional conversation with a local Muslim regarding Christianity being a religion of idolaters, and as a result of our idolatry, Jesus would be more in line with Islam than modern … [Read more...]
Islam’s ‘Protestant Reformation’ (Part 2)
PJ Media Click for Part 1 How Christianity and Islam can follow similar patterns of reform but with antithetical results rests in the fact that their scriptures are often antithetical to one another. This is the key point, and one admittedly unintelligible to postmodern, secular sensibilities, which tend to lump all religious scripture together in a melting pot of … [Read more...]