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:

It's all very simple: More Muslims equals more violence against non-Muslims

This book convincingly demonstrates that his view runs "counter to the mainstream of today's scholarly interpretation--a general consensus built upon decades of research, reflection, and debate."

It is the Obama administration’s own refugee policies that are “shameful,” “not American,” and do not represent “who we are.”

Muslim Attacks on Christian Churches

This is the hostile, un-assimilating, tribal mentality that the West is importing by the millions

Christian minorities having their churches closed, being forced to meet in tents, only to be persecuted again-- is not an “aberration” limited to Egypt’s Christians but occurs wherever Christians live under Muslim rule

"Life was a nightmare"

Saudi Arabia and its premiere role in exporting “extremism” around the world is only one part of a more complex problem

Muslim Persecution of Christian Churches, Dhimmitude, Muslim Violence Against and Slaughter of Christians

Christianity is demonized and its history distorted by its usurping enemies: in the West, by a host of "isms"--including leftism, moral relativism, and multiculturalism--and in the Middle East, by Islam

Free and mighty West, refusing to use its powers--even in the name of self-preservation--while empowering an Islam that openly vows to, and will, subjugate the West

Keeper of Secrets statue

It may be hard to acknowledge an ugly truth—that Islam, not “radical Islam,” promotes hate for and violence against non-Muslims—but anything less will just continue to feed the lie, that is, continue to feed the jihad and terror.

Sisi appeases the Islamist agenda in one very clear way: by allowing the controversial defamation of religions law, colloquially known as the blasphemy law

What’s more important: our security or our ability to “feel good” about ourselves?

Both celebrating multiculturalism and defeating the jihad is impossible

The rise of anti-Christian, Islamic supremacism "did not emerge in Northern Nigeria until the 1980s: Wahhabi and Salafist teaching

So long as Islam calls for jihad against those who reject Allah and his prophet, so long will attacks like Brussels (and the countless before it) continue

ISIS is on record saying that its eradication of Christians is due to their religious identity

Primary achievement of U.S. foreign policies in Muslim nations -- apart from wasted American blood and treasure -- is the unprecedented rise of Islamic forces bent on destroying America.

Trump’s assertion that “Islam hates us” is demonstrable by the words, teachings of the Koran, by the words and teachings of past and present Islamic clerics, and by the past and present actions of Muslims around the world

2015 was the worst year in modern history for Christian persecution

Muslim Persecution of Christians, January 2016-- Muslim Attacks on Christian Churches

Because the West refuses to acknowledge Islam’s true doctrines and history, it must ever confront the jihad blindfolded and blindsided

Another “phenomenon” of Christian life in Egypt….

Christian leaders accuse local officials of inciting--and then citing--Muslim violence against churches as reason to deny permits

Subhuman treatment and sexual abuse of "infidel" women is becoming a common fixture in the West

The rest of December’s roundup of Muslim persecution of Christians around the world includes, but is not limited to, the following

Time will tell whether the next administration will remain willfully ignorant of the nature of its jihadi enemy—which is fatal in war according to Sun Tzu’s ancient dictum, “know your enemy”—or whether reality will trump political correctness.

Where Muslim numbers grow so too do acts of Muslim violence against and sexual abuse of non-Muslims grow with them