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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:

'If You Love Jesus, Then Die Like Jesus!'

Reports of Christian life under the Islamic State (ISIS) continued throughout November. Many of these came from the ancient Christian towns surrounding Mosul, such as Batnaya and Qaraqosh, conquered by ISIS in August, 2014, and liberated in late October, 2016.
- Monday, February 6, 2017

Egypt: Four Christians Slaughtered in 10 Days

That the Coptic Christian Church continues to voice its support for President Sisi should not be interpreted to mean that the situation of Egypt’s Christian minority has improved. One need only look to the substratum of news for confirmation. The current month of January alone has already witnessed three separate instances over the course of 10 days where four Copts were slaughtered in Egypt.
- Wednesday, January 18, 2017

The Return of Islam's Child-Soldiers

Past and present, Muslim militants continue relying on the same inhumane tactics to terrorize "infidels." The devastating effects of one of these occurred last August in Turkey: a child "recruited" by the Islamic State blew himself up in a suicide attack that left at least 51 people--mostly fellow children--dead.
- Saturday, January 14, 2017

A Hate to Kill and Die for

Muslim attacks on Christian churches are on the rise all around the world--including in America. The worst occurred last month when a bomb exploded in Egypt's St. Peter's Cathedral, killing 28, mostly women and children. Preliminary investigations had indicated that a woman entered the church, sat in the women's section, and then left an unattended purse that later detonated. Later reports asserted that, although others were involved, including one Muslim woman, a male uicide-bomber was the chief culprit (graphic pictures of his remains here).
- Monday, January 9, 2017

Muslim Slaughters Christian for Selling Alcohol in Egypt

A Muslim man crept up behind a Christian man and slit his throat, killing him in Alexandria, Egypt, on the evening of January 3. Adel Suleiman, 48, the Muslim man who committed the murder, did so because his Christian victim, 45-year-old Joseph Lam‘i, owned a shop that sold alcohol, which the murderer deemed “contrary to the shar‘ia [Islamic law] and the religion [Islam],” according to an Arabic language investigative report.
- Thursday, January 5, 2017

The Specifics of Sharia’s Savageries

Although Western media regularly claim no “motive” for many of the Islamic attacks on non-Muslims, many are by now at least vaguely aware that the Muslim perpetrators rely on generic Islamic teachings that foster hostility for non-Muslims. Yet often overlooked are the very stringent and detailed Islamic rulings behind many terror attacks.
- Tuesday, January 3, 2017

'We Are Not Weak': Does Islamic Claim Stand Up to Scrutiny?

Abdul Razak Ali Artan -- an 18-year-old Muslim refugee from Somalia, who was receiving aid from Catholic charities -- recently rammed his car into a building at Ohio State University. He then got out and stabbed people with a butcher knife, sending 13 people to the hospital before he was gunned down by police.
- Tuesday, December 20, 2016

'The Crescent Must be Above the Cross'

In September 2016, a group of escaped ISIS sex slaves finally revealed the true fate of Kayla Mueller --the 26-year-old American aid worker in Syria whom ISIS had reported dead more than a year ago. Her former fellow captives said Mueller had "refused to deny Jesus Christ despite being repeatedly raped and tortured." In February 2015, ISIS claimed their captive had been killed during a Jordanian airstrike and sent photos of her dead body in a white burial shroud, apparently as a sign of respect. One former sex slave said that Mueller "put others before herself," and once even refused a chance to escape with the other girls because she thought her American appearance would stand out and endanger the others.
- Monday, December 19, 2016

Christian Worship Is 'Worse than Murder and Bloodshed'

For an idea on why Egypt's Coptic Christians and their churches are constantly under attack--most recently last Sunday, when a church was bombed, killing at least 25 Christians--one need merely listen to the words and teachings of some of the nation's Muslim preachers.
- Saturday, December 17, 2016

Egypt: Christians Still Denied Churches While Government Opens 10 Mosques Every Week

One week before the bombing of St. Peter’s cathedral which left at least 25 Christians dead, hostility for Christian churches was being shown in the usual, less spectacular way. Egyptian authorities and politicians held a meeting sponsored by Al Azhar, the nation’s topmost authority on Islam, in the village of Naghameesh, Sohag. Those present included leading authorities, such the governor of Sohag and the security service.
- Thursday, December 15, 2016

Egypt's Deadliest Church Attack

The worst attack on Egypt's Christian minority in recent years occurred yesterday, Sunday, December 11, 2016. St. Peter Cathedral in Cairo, packed with worshippers celebrating Sunday mass, was bombed; at least 27 churchgoers, mostly women and children, were killed and 65 severely wounded. As many of the wounded are in critical condition, the death toll is expected to rise.
- Tuesday, December 13, 2016

The Ugly Truth about Muslim Grievances

Do you know the difference between a supremacist grievance and an egalitarian grievance? This is the key to understanding the widely held claim that Muslim grievances are the source of Muslim violence.
- Saturday, December 10, 2016

Egypt: Potentially Deadly Church Attack Thwarted

A man hurled an improvised bomb at the entrance of a packed church in Egypt in what observers say could’ve been a repeat of the Two Saints Church attack in Alexandria, 2011, which left 23 dead, and 100 injured.
- Monday, December 5, 2016

Mitt Romney’s “Establishment” Position on Islam and the Mideast

Donald Trump is considering Mitt Romney for the position of secretary of state. This is ironic as Romney embodies the “establishment” position on two critically important topics: Islamic terrorists and Mideast foreign policy. As Robert Spencer already pointed out, it speaks volumes that the “Hamas-linked CAIR leader who called for overthrow of US government [is] thrilled Romney could be Trump’s Secretary of State.”
- Saturday, December 3, 2016

Al Azhar Rejects Reforming 'Religious Discourse'

Much of the curriculum of Al Azhar--the Islamic world's most prestigious university, located in Cairo--is based on Islamic books written in the medieval era or earlier. These books--histories, biographies of Muhammad, hadith (words and deeds of the latter), tafsirs (Koran exegeses), etc.--are often criticized by more reform-minded Muslims for being too backwards, teaching things such as unrelenting jihad and hatred for non-Muslims.
- Tuesday, November 29, 2016

The Houris: Islam’s ‘Sexual Superwomen’

Last month, when the battle for Mosul began, Islamic State “caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi reportedly promised four extra Houris (supernatural, celestial women designed for sexual purposes)—atop the other 72 promised by prophet Muhammad—to all jihadis who die (are “martyred”) fighting the infidel forces, according to Arabic media accounts.
- Thursday, November 24, 2016
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