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:

Christians Accept Execution Rather Than Islam

Raymond Ibrahim Approximately two months after the Islamic State (IS) published a video depicting its members slaughtering 21 Coptic Christians in Libya, on Sunday, April 19, the Islamic jihadi organization released another video of more Christians in Libya being massacred, this time for not paying jizya--extortion money demanded of the "People of the Book" according to Koran 9:29.

- Monday, April 20, 2015

400 Syrian Churches Destroyed, Christianity Nearing ‘Extinction’ in Mideast

Around mid-April, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia –who once wrote a letter to Barack Obama beseeching the president to reconsider his foreign policies which enable the persecution of Christians in Syria — spoke again of the threat of Christian extinction in the Mideast during a meeting with Greek Defense Minister Panagiotis Kammenos. In the Russian Patriarch’s own words:

- Sunday, April 19, 2015

Obama's Christianity: A Political Tool to Silence Christians

Raymond Ibrahim Here in the United States, where Americans are used to hearing their president always invoke Christianity in a manner that silences Christians, United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron's recent Easter message was moderately refreshing.

- Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Obama Cites Ayatollah's Fatwa on Road to Nuclear War

--Raymond Ibrahim As Iran continues edging closer to developing nuclear weapons--a major threat to the entire Mideast region, especially longstanding U.S. ally Israel--U.S. President Obama has come to the aid of the Islamic Republic, by citing an Islamic fatwa no less. In a video recording posted on the White House's website, Obama said, "Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has issued a fatwa against the development of nuclear weapons, and President Rouhani has said that Iran would never develop a nuclear weapon."

- Friday, March 27, 2015

Jihadis Cleansing Pakistan of Christians

Pope Francis: Christians are being killed: "simply because they are Christians."

- Sunday, March 22, 2015

CIA Chief John Brennan's Deceptions About Islam

CIA head John Brennan has come to epitomize the U.S. intelligence community's intellectual failures concerning the true sources of the jihad

- Wednesday, March 18, 2015

West Misses Point--and Lesson--of Buddhist Anti-Muslim Sentiment

--Raymond Ibrahim Ongoing reports decrying "anti-Muslim" Buddhists seem to miss the point: this antipathy did not appear out of thin air but rather in response to Islamic aggression--the same Islamic aggression the rest of the world is trying to cope with.

- Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Obama's Self-Professed "Confusion" About Islamic Terror

Raymond Ibrahim During the National Prayer Breakfast earlier this month, U.S. President Obama tried to shield Islam from criticism by depicting Christianity as equally violent and intolerant (via comments about crusades, inquisitions, and "high horses"). Much lesser known is that he also tried to shield Islam by invoking Christian virtues.

- Friday, February 27, 2015

Coptic Christian Mother 'Thanks' ISIS Slaughterers of Son

Kyrillos' mother and other family member in mourning during interview

Raymond Ibrahim The mother of Kyrillos (Cyrus), one of the 21 Coptic Christians recently butchered by the Islamic State in Libya, said in a recent interview that she forgives the Muslim murderers of her son -- since he is now "with his Lord" -- and prays that they see the light and turn from evil.

- Sunday, February 22, 2015

Muslims Slaughter Christians, Try to Burn Them Alive in Churches Over European Muhammad Cartoons

-- Raymond Ibrahim More details on the "collective punishment" of Niger's Christians in response to Charlie Hebdo Muhammad cartoons recently appeared.

- Saturday, February 21, 2015

Living and Dying by the Sword of Jihad

--Raymond Ibrahim In a move reminiscent of "ancient history," Saudi Arabia is building a 600-mile-long "Great Wall"--a combined fence and ditch--to separate itself from the Islamic State to the north in Iraq:

- Friday, February 20, 2015

Christians under Islam Suffer for Western 'Sins'

- Raymond Ibrahim Not only are many Western secularists totally indifferent to the plight of Christians and other religious minorities under Islam--they inadvertently exacerbate it, thanks to the Muslim penchant to conflate Western behavior with Christianity.

- Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Al Azhar "Freely" Promotes Slaughter of Christians and Infidels

-- Raymond Ibrahim Egypt's Al Azhar University--seen by many as Sunni Islam's most authoritative voice--continues to incite enmity for and violence against non-Muslims "infidels."

- Thursday, February 5, 2015

The "Spoils of the Nazarenes"

--Raymond Ibrahim The Islamic State recently opened a market where it sells the possessions it robbed from Christian churches and homes in Mosul--in accordance with Islamic teachings that permit plunder, or ghanima. Aptly called, the "Spoils of the Nazarenes" (or Nasara, Islam's term for Christians), among other everyday items, the IS store sells televisions, refrigerators, microwave ovens, furniture and artwork.

- Wednesday, February 4, 2015

“Nigeria Elections Put Christians in Danger of More Muslim Attacks”

By Cheryl Wetzstein Washington Times Muslim persecution of Christians is at a high tide — and there are grave fears of more sectarian bloodletting as millions of people in Nigeria, which is half Muslim and half Christian, vote for their national leaders next month.

- Friday, January 30, 2015