Raymond Ibrahim's Blog, page 14

Muslim Persecution of Christians: December, 2011

The Nigerian church bombings, wherein the Islamic group Boko Haram killed over 40 people celebrating Christmas mass, is just the most obvious example of anti-Christian sentiment in December. Elsewhere around the Muslim world, Christmas time for...

Review of Militant Islamist Ideology

Reading CDR Youssef Aboul-Enein's book, Militant Islamist Ideology: Understanding the Global Threat, published by the Naval Institute Press (2010), one can see why U.S. leadership is far from "understanding the global threat"; why the Obama...

Islam's Slave-Soldiers Return to Egypt

[Note: Stonegate Institute's title for this article is "An Old Egyptian Tradition: A Military that Brutalizes Egyptians"] The myths of a "patriotic" or "altruistic" Egyptian military carefully protecting the "rights" of its citizenry—the narrative of the...

Nigeria's Christmas Present: Blown Up Christians

Several churches in northern Nigeria were bombed December 25, in what has been described as "Nigeria's blackest Christmas ever." The attacks, perpetrated by the Muslim militant group Boko Haram, killed at least 39 people, "the majority dying on the steps...

Lessons on the Long Road to Hijab

This caricature, which first appeared on CagleCartoons.com, has been making the rounds on the Arabic blogosphere, and points to how democratic elections are serving to Islamize Egypt: average women enter the ballot box—"overseen" by the Muslim...

Jihad Bells, Jihad Bells -- Jihad All The Way!

"Oh what fun with a knife or gun a Christian guy to slay -- hey!..." Rarely do humor and sad truth come together so well as in this video....

Distorting Reality to Justify Jihad

Sheikh Ahmad Abu Quddum recently declared the legitimacy of offensive jihad for the world to hear: "When we declare Jihad against Germany, for instance, it is declared against the German state, for refusing to allow Islam to spread to the people of...

Iraq's Christians Near Extinction

A recent Fox News report tells of how "a rash of attacks on Christian-owned businesses in northern Iraq has raised troubling questions about the future safety of the country's shrinking Christian community, particularly as U.S. forces withdraw completely...

Muslim Persecution of Christians: November, 2011

The so-called "Arab Spring" continues to transition into a "Christian Winter," including in those nations undergoing democratic change, such as Egypt, where the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis dominated the elections—unsurprisingly so, considering the...

Muslim Persecution of Christians at a Crossroads

When the major media reported a few months ago that Iranian Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani was set to be executed for leaving Islam, many Western people were shocked, finding it hard to believe that in the 21st century people are still being persecuted—by...