Raymond Ibrahim
RAYMOND IBRAHIM (RaymondIbrahim.com) is a widely published author, public speaker, and Middle East and Islam expert. His books include Crucified Again: Exposing Islam's New War on Christians (2013) and The Al Qaeda Reader (2007). His writings, translations, and observations have appeared in a variety of publications, including Fox News, Financial Times, Jerusalem Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Times Syndicate, United Press International, USA Today, Washington Post, Washington Times, and Weekly Standard; scholarly journals, including the Almanac of Islamism, Chronicle of Higher Education, Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst, Middle East Quarterly, and Middle East Review of International Affairs; and popular websites, such as American Thinker, the Blaze, Bloomberg, Christian Post, FrontPage Magazine, Gatestone Institute, the Inquisitr, Jihad Watch, NewsMax, National Review Online, PJ Media, VDH's Private Papers, and World Magazine. He has contributed chapters to several anthologies and been translated into various languages.
Most Recent Articles by Raymond Ibrahim:
The Great Price of ‘Blaspheming’ against Muhammad
May 15, 2017
Nonstop accusations, incarcerations, murders, tortures, death penalties meted out to non-Muslims on the mere accusation of “blasphemy”—at the hands of mobs, vigilantes, court judges— call into question any claims of tolerance, modernity, or pluralism
The former is but one of many temporal and historical manifestations of the latter, which, as an integral part of Islam, transcends time and space
‘The Real Bomb Is in Islam’s Books’
May 3, 2017
Pope Francis wasted his time at Egypt’s Al Azhar
Why Islamists and Fascists Persecute Christians
April 29, 2017
Authority vs.. Freedom
‘Spit on the Cross or Die!’
April 18, 2017
Muslim Persecution of Christians, January 2017
Why Easter Brings Out the Worst in Islam
April 17, 2017
Shedding the blood of Christians and murdering them is preferable to allowing them to flaunt their opposition to Muhammad’s teachings
Why Christians Are Being Slaughtered in Egypt
April 15, 2017
Until Egyptian government removes “radical” sheikhs, their teachings from the mosques, schools, television stations, all other positions of influence, Muslims will continue to be radicalized, churches will continue to be bombed, Christians killed
Coptic Pope Tawadros, was in the St. Mark Church during the attack
44 Dead Christians: Islam’s Latest Victims
April 10, 2017
Sisi said that the “corpus of [Islamic] texts and ideas that we have sacralized over the centuries” are “antagonizing the entire world” and that Egypt “is being torn, it is being destroyed, it is being lost—and it is being lost by our own hands.”
A 1,389 Year-Old ‘Phobia’?
April 7, 2017
Muslims, continue raiding, plundering, massacring, and enslaving “infidels” that fear and dislike of Islam—what is called “Islamophobia”—exists to this day.
Confronting this discomforting fact is the first real step to alleviating the sufferings of the overwhelming majority of Christians around the world; for seldom can anything be fixed without first acknowledging the root of the problem
Accusing non-Muslims of doing to Muslims what Islam commands Muslims do to others….
A look at an old and little known endorsement of a problematic book…
Christmas saw an uptick in Islamic attacks on Christians--much of it in the context of targeting Christmas related worship and celebrations
Patterson's unsavory ties to the Muslim Brotherhood
All Art Is “Immoral,” Says Egypt’s Top—and “Moderate”—Cleric
March 10, 2017
Western and Christian institutions ignore all this and continue to portray Tayeb and Al Azhar as "moderates."
Cannibalism: ISIS Revives Islam’s Original Terror Tactic
March 8, 2017
One is therefore left to wonder if Rafiq is just another in a long line of embarrassed Muslim authorities trying to rationalize away their coreligionists’ depraved practices in the name of Islam
A New Genocide for Egypt’s Christians?
March 2, 2017
300 Christians living in al-Arish have fled their homes, with nothing but their clothes on their backs and their children in their hands
Pope Francis Tears at History’s Ancient Walls against Islam
February 25, 2017
Had it not been for Pope Leo's walls--and other Christian walls, such as Constantinople's, which kept Islam out of Europe for centuries, and Vienna's, which stopped a full-blown jihad as recent as 1683--there might not be a pope today
Trump to American Muslims: Embrace Christianity, Pay Jizya, or Die?
February 16, 2017
Muslims--including if not especially those in America currently feigning trauma at Trump's "hurtful" words--know precisely what he is talking about.
‘If You Love Jesus, Then Die Like Jesus!’
February 6, 2017
Muslim Persecution of Christians, November 2016
Muhammad and Forced Conversions to Islam
February 6, 2017
Islam's Militant Prophet: Muhammad and Forced Conversion to Islam
Christians did not flee from Bashar Assad’s Syria, or Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, or Muamar Gaddafi’s Libya. Their systematic persecution—to the point of genocide—began only after the U.S. interfered in those nations under the pretext of “democracy.”
Egypt: Four Christians Slaughtered in 10 Days
January 18, 2017
The Return of Islam’s Child-Soldiers
January 14, 2017
Kidnapped, enslaved, beat, and indoctrinated in the name of jihad…
A Hate to Kill and Die for
January 9, 2017
The most supreme way of living this hate is by becoming a jihadi--killing and being killed
Muslim Slaughters Christian for Selling Alcohol in Egypt
January 5, 2017
What is clear is that the assassin is a Salafi, one of those Muslims who closely follow the lifestyle and teachings of Muslim prophet Muhammad and his original companions
The Specifics of Sharia’s Savageries
January 3, 2017
ISIS and other Islamic groups and individuals relied on arcane and little known Islamic rulings to justify their violence
‘Now Is Time to Behead Unbelievers’
January 2, 2017
Muslim Persecution of Christians, October 2016: The persecution of Christians in the Islamic world has become endemic.
‘We Are Not Weak’: Does Islamic Claim Stand Up to Scrutiny?
December 20, 2016
Faced before Islam's three choices -- conversion, enslavement, or annihilation -- the West would have gone the way of the dodo, like many civilizations that opposed Islam before it.