Gatestone Institute When it comes to violence between Muslims and non-Muslims, March news was dominated by the Christchurch, New Zealand massacres, where an Australian man killed 51 Muslims in two mosques on March 15. However, to place matters in perspective, a statistical report did some number crunching and found that “a Christian living in a majority … [Read more...]
Islam’s Greatest Victory: The Fall of Constantinople, May 29, 1453
Today in history, on May 29, 1453, the sword of Islam conquered Constantinople. Of all of Islam’s conquests of Christian territory, this was by far the most symbolically significant. For not only was Constantinople a living and direct extension of the old Roman Empire and current capital of the Christian Roman Empire (or Byzantium), but its cyclopean walls had prevented … [Read more...]
Genocide of Christians Reaches “Alarming Stage”
Gatestone Institute Translations of this item: Dutch, French, German, ItalianPortuguese, Spanish, Swedish "Christian persecution 'at near genocide levels,'" the title of a May 3 BBC report, cites a lengthy interim study ordered by British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and led by Rev. Philip Mounstephen, the Bishop of Truro. According to the BBC report, one in three … [Read more...]
Reversing the Roles of Crusade and Jihad
Editor’s note: The following book review by Raymond Ibrahim of William R. Polk’s book, Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War between the Muslim World and the Global North (Yale University press, Jan. 2018) first appeared in the Christian Research Journal. -------- From beginning to end, Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War between the Muslim World and the … [Read more...]
“Deep Spiritual Crisis”: Scandinavian Women Expose the West’s Root Problems
The following brief but highly informative interview appeared earlier this year on Herland Report TV. Titled, “Europe: Deep Spiritual Crisis,” the host, Hanne Nabintu Herland, a Norwegian historian of religions and journalist, interviews Iben Thranholm, a Danish theologian and journalist. Both women are to be commended for raising many important points—indeed, … [Read more...]