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:

Muslim Persecution of Christians: September, 2016

Until the Egyptian government removes the "radical" sheikhs and their teachings from the mosques, schools, television stations and positions of influence, Muslims will continue to be radicalized, churches will be bombed, Christians will be killed

Such is the plight of Egypt’s Christians.


In short, not only has nothing changed for Egypt's Christians, but the deadliest church attack in modern history has just taken place, not under Mubarak or Morsi, but under Sisi.

Muslim rage, terrorism are products of grievances: “grievances” are not predicated on any rational standards of equality or justice, but on a supremacist worldview

One of dozens of churches attacked in recent years in Egypt


Highest Muslim authority in Egypt made clear that Al Azhar never had any intention of changing anything. "Religious discourse" articulated in the Medieval era--one of hostility and violence. in a word, jihad--is the only "discourse" Muslims accept


New Boko Haram leader Abu Musab al-Barnawi announced that Christians are now target #1

Meanwhile, far from calling Islam out, Western liberal Christians continue calling for more Muslim refugees and carrying signs proclaiming, "I’m Christian and I love the Qur’an"

Christian cemetery of Qarqoosh, Iraq


It is the Obama administration's discriminatory policies and "religious tests" that are "shameful," "not American," and not "who we are."

The deliberate targeting and killing of Christians in Europe also reached unprecedented levels in modern times

Treachery Christians have suffered from their longtime Muslim neighbors and "friends"

It appears Pope Francis must continue to pray for, in his own words, “the courage to say the [whole] truth” about who or what is behind the tremendous rise of Christian persecution in the modern era

Muslim Persecution of Christians, June 2016

Driver Ameer Abbaf Fakhraldin told police the collision was caused by Donald Trump"s improper treatment of minorities

It should be noted that even in Europe, it is the indigenous females who are suffering the most from the influx of Muslim migrants

Until this ugly truth is accepted, countless more innocents—including many born Muslims who seek to break free from Islam—will continue to suffer from the world’s oldest supremacist ideology

Coptic Solidarity

Genocide against Christians under ISIS receives no mention

The aftereffects of al-Qaeda's propaganda--which was regularly disseminated by Western media far and wide soon after September 11, 2001--are still with us

Persecutions span different ethnicities, languages, locales: One thing alone binds them: Islam--whether the strict application of Islamic Sharia law, or the supremacist culture born of it

For the fact remains: unlike natural disasters—earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes, and the like—we actually do not need to "live with" Islam

Tayeb is neither a "moderate" nor a "radical." He's merely a Muslim trying to be true to Islam. Put differently, he's merely a messenger

Muslims have been slaughtering Muslims on any number of justifications and rationalizations from the start: So what can the open non-Muslim--such as the Western infidel--expect?

Pope Francis falls within the ranks of those Western leaders who are either liars or fools, or a little bit of both