Raymond Ibrahim's Blog, page 7

Egyptian Election: Islamist Victory or Deceptive Strategy?

Has anyone stopped to ask where the headlines "Muslim Brotherhood Wins Egypt's Presidential Election!" originate? They come, of course, straight from the Muslim Brotherhood and its allies—particularly the Qatar-based Islamist propaganda machine, Al...

Parallel Betrayals: Iranian Revolution and Arab Spring

Many are the lessons to be learned between the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the current revolutions of the Arab world. Consider the issue of the hijab, the female "veil"—the proliferation of which, according to one former Islamist and associate of...

Islamic Terror vs. Norway Massacre: Chicken or Egg?

Ever since last year's Norway massacre, when Anders Breivik killed some 70 people, the relativists and Muslim apologists of the world felt exonerated: for here at last, thought they, was proof positive that terrorism had nothing to do with Islamic...

Salafi Sex Scandals

Sheikh Ali Wanis, an Egyptian parliament member and prominent figure in the Nour Party—the Salafi party which preaches a return to early Islam based on Muhammad's practices—was recently caught in a "compromising position" with a female other than his...

Review of Egypt: A Short History

Appearing just before the uprising that overthrew Husni Mubarak, Egypt: A Short History offers a timely reminder of the wild vicissitudes and mass upheavals which have been integral to Egypt's history. Tignor, emeritus history professor at Princeton...

Review of My Brother, My Enemy

My Brother, My Enemy, being true to its namesake, takes a fraternal, even emotional, approach to understanding the conflict between the United States and the Muslim world, based on the author's travels and interviews in the Middle East. While Smucker, a...

A Tale of Two American Martyrs

Apologists for Islamic persecution of Christians regularly argue that the animosity is not driven by religion, but rather a "sectarian" divide, by any number of "indigenous" factors—poverty, intertribal conflicts, political machinations, etc. Other...

Egyptian "Honor": Brothers Butcher Mother, Sister, and Aunt

According to the June 5 edition of Youm7, two brothers in a village in Assuit, Egypt, slaughtered their mother, sister, and aunt, "after discovering their sister's actions were contrary to morality." After chaos erupted in the house, including gunfire,...

Greatest Church Soon To Be Mega Mosque?

Ostensibly dealing with a building, a recent report demonstrates how Turkey's populace—once deemed the most secular and liberal in the Muslim world—is reverting to its Islamic heritage, complete with animosity for the infidel West and dreams of Islam's...

More on Slaughtered Convert to Christianity

I just received an email from the editor of a large website, who posted my story from yesterday about the slaughtered apostate. He writes: The story generated a huge number of commentaries from readers, some of them originating from Muslim Countries....