Muslim Persecution of Christians Archives

“It’s a War on Christians”: Muslim Persecution of Christians, April 2017

08/28/2017 by Raymond Ibrahim 1 Comment

The Gatestone Institute As in former years, Easter was under attack in various Muslim nations, most spectacularly in Egypt. On April 9, two Coptic Christian Orthodox churches packed with worshippers for Palm Sunday Mass, which initiates Easter holy week, were attacked by Islamic suicide bombers. Twenty-seven people—mostly children—were killed in St. George’s in Tanta, northern Egypt. […]

Slaughtered Christians “A Viable Target”? Muslim Persecution of Christians, March 2017

07/17/2017 by Raymond Ibrahim 2 Comments

The Gatestone Institute The uptick in often lethal persecution of Christians in Muslim regions has caused many Christian leaders to appeal for aid. Canon Andrew White, the prominent minister known as the “Vicar of Baghdad” told Fox News in March, “If there is anything I can tell Americans it is that your fellow brothers and sisters are […]

Raymond Ibrahim ‘Sets Record Straight’ on Hank Unplugged

07/16/2017 by Raymond Ibrahim 4 Comments

I was recently interviewed on the Hank Unplugged podcast, with Hank Hanegraaff, president of the Christian Research Institute. We discussed a wide ranging number of topics in the 90 minute interview, including: the West actively undermining itself and the reality of Islam (6:00); the aberration of labeling Islam as one of the Abrahamic faiths (10:00); the […]

“Drip-Drip” Genocide: Muslim Persecution of Christians, February, 2017

05/29/2017 by Raymond Ibrahim 5 Comments

Gatestone Institute The Islamic State is at it again. More stories of atrocities against Christians continued to surface. In one, a Christian man, Meghrik, said the bus in which he was riding in Syria was stopped at what turned out to be an ISIS checkpoint. Three men dressed in black entered and began checking all […]