Raymond Ibrahim's Blog

Islam's Insanities: All Just a 'Hoax'?

You read something immensely disturbing concerning the Muslim world—say, that some Muslims seek to legalize sex-slavery or destroy Egypt's Pyramids or approve of sodomy-suicide-missions or crucify infidels. Your mind—exclaiming "tell me this is a...

Saudi Grand Mufti: Replace Female ID Pictures with Fingerprints

According to a September 27 Masrawy report, because the face (and eyes) of a woman is deemed a great temptation for Muslim men -- worthy of covering no less than a woman's vagina, at least according to one Egyptian cleric -- the Grand Mufti of Saudi...

Muslim Persecution of Christians: August, 2012

While many people are regularly persecuted by Islam's blasphemy law, one particular case made August headlines: a 14-year-old Christian girl in Pakistan, Rimsha Masih, was arrested, accused of burning pages of a Quran. Rioting Muslims destroyed Christian...

Egypt's Christians: Distraught and Displaced

Last week Reuters reported that "Most Christians living near Egypt's border with Israel [in the town of Rafah in Sinai] are fleeing their homes after Islamist militants made death threats and gunmen attacked a Coptic-owned shop." Photos of desecrated...

'Sharia-Medicine'

A recent Egyptian TV program showed how Islamic Sharia law's many prescriptions do not merely clash with modern-day concepts like free speech and religious freedom, but even with medicine and science. On September 16, popular TV persona Wael El-Ibrashi...

Egyptian Evangelical Church Attacked with Stones and Gas Bombs

According to Al Masry Al Youm, Kasr El-Dobara, the largest evangelical church in the Middle East, located in Egypt, was recently besieged by "unknown people" hurling "stones and gas bombs." The first gas bomb thrown at the church Thursday afternoon,...

How 'Religious Defamation' Laws Would Ban Islam

As the Islamic world, in the guise of the 57-member state Organization of Islamic Cooperation, continues to push for the enforcement of "religious defamation" laws in the international arena—theoretically developed to protect all religions from insult,...

Egyptian President Morsi's UN Speech Tomorrow

Following news that Egypt's President Morsi is threatening the Coptic Church if Copts demonstrate against him during his UN speech tomorrow, Coptic Solidarity has just issued a press release calling "upon all those who do not want Egypt to turn into...

Morsi Threatens Coptic Church with "Retaliatory Measures" if Copts Demonstrate

While Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood president allowed Muslims to "demonstrate" by attacking the U.S. embassy in Cairo—all in the name of a YouTube movie—human rights activist Magdi Khalil says he has evidence that President Muhammad Morsi's administration...

The Rape of Christopher Stevens

By obsessing over the 14-minute YouTube Muhammad video and its maker, the mainstream media ultimately exonerates the inexcusable and murderous response of the Islamic world. There is only one question: did those who make this movie break any law? No,...