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:

Saudi Arabia is a chief funder and supporter of external jihads: better to send its own zealots out of its borders to fight distant infidels than have them stick around

Muslim Persecution of Christians-- Muslims continue to conflate the West with Christianity

In reality, however, in Egypt, it is the Christian Copts who are most targeted due to their sheer numbers

The Islamic State recently opened a market where it sells the possessions it robbed from Christian churches and homes in Mosul

Washington Times Interviews Raymond Ibrahim on Muslim Persecution of Christians

Abdel Fatah al-Sisi became the first Egyptian president ever to visit the St. Mark Cathedral during Coptic Christmas Eve Mass

Church of the Angel Raphael: Security forces dispersed the attack

One wonders how long before Charlie Hebdo-style attacks also lose their newsworthiness, becoming commonplace and expected, as the tentacles of the jihad continue to grow

"Before we put a show of unity with Muslims, let’s have them begin by respecting our civilization and our culture"

"You killed my brothers in Paris. I'm going to kill everyone. Christians, you will die!"

Some have lambasted Pope Francis who is accused of appeasing immigrants—mostly Muslims—to wild extremes

Is Islam Worse than Other Religions?

Sisi’s Brave New Egypt? January 16, 2015
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi continues to be the antithesis of longstanding mainstream media portrayals of him

Lied to the Islamic State regarding the ownership of a bottle of cooking gas left behind by fleeing Christians

Perpetrators are allegedly militants from the Islamic Front’s (Jabhat al-Islamiyya) militia “Harakat ‘Ahrar Al-Sham” (Liberators of the Levant Movement), who fired mortar shells at the cathedral

How the West Destroyed Libya January 13, 2015
Needless to say, such atrocities were unheard of under Gaddafi's "authoritarian" rule--just as they were unheard of in Saddam Hussein's Iraq

Yet another young Coptic Christian girl, Sabrine Mushir (right), has been kidnapped in Egypt, from the village of Dalga.

Adib asked his viewers, “Are you, as Muslims, content with the fact that today we are all seen as terrorists by the world?

Christians Burned Alive January 11, 2015
Muslim Persecution of Christians, November 2014

Muslim Persecution of Christians

Islamic terrorism and chaos is not a product of grievance, territorial disputes, colonialism, Israel, offensive cartoons, or anything else the West points to. It's a product of their "own hands."

How Islamic “thinking is antagonizing the entire world"

Coptic Christian family — mother, father, and daughter — killed in Libya

The persecution of Christians in the Islamic world has become endemic

"President Obama, I call on you to uphold the values of honesty, justice, and respect for the people’s will. Peace"