Today in history, on June 6, Louis IX of France—better known to posterity as Saint Louis—scored a dramatic victory over the Islamic jihad. It was late May, 1249, and the Seventh Crusade had begun. Louis and his army, which consisted of some twenty-five thousand Crusaders, set sail from Cyprus. Their destination, based on the by now standard Crusader logic that Egypt must be … [Read more...]
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‘Murdered Like Animals’: Genocide of Christians in Nigeria Reaches New Heights
Gatestone Institute The “pure genocide” of Christians in Nigeria, as it has been characterized by several international observers, has reached new levels, according to an April 10, 2023 report by the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, also known as “Intersociety,” a nonprofit human rights organization based in Nigeria. According to the report, since … [Read more...]
Christian Genocide in Nigeria: The Biden Administration’s Cover-Up
Gatestone Institute After having been swept under the rug for over a year, one of the Biden administration’s “sins of omission” is making headlines again. Over a year ago, on November 17, 2021, the State Department inexplicably removed Nigeria from its list of Countries of Particular Concern (CPCs). These are nations that engage in, or tolerate violations of, religious … [Read more...]
Another Biden Bribe: China, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey Pay Millions to Subvert American Universities
The Stream What would make nations that are notoriously hostile to freedom, diversity, women’s rights, and, in short, everything the West believes in, donate billions of dollars to fund, of all things, liberal American universities? The answer seems clear enough: elite universities produce American leaders, and foreign money—“donations”—buys power and influence over those … [Read more...]
Slaughtered Mothers and Fathers: An Islamic Hate that Knows No Bounds
Incidents of Muslims slaughtering, or trying to slaughter, their own parents are on the rise, including for bizarre reasons (as in "Allah had invited them to paradise through me"). Most recently, a 30-year-old Muslim man stabbed his own mother in the throat with a knife in France. After characterizing the incident as an “attempted murder,” local authorities said that the … [Read more...]
‘A Deliberate Plan to Unleash Evil’: The Muslim Persecution of Christians, December 2022
Gatestone Institute The following are among the murders and abuses Muslims inflicted on Christians throughout the month of December 2022: Genocidal Jihad against Christians Turkey: Between November 20-25, 2022, Turkey launched 2,500 attacks—air, mortar, drone, artillery, etc.—several miles deep into Syria’s northern border. Governed by the Autonomous Administration of North … [Read more...]
Talk of ‘Abrahamic’ Religions is an Ecumenical Farce
The Stream What if you had a deceased grandfather whom you were particularly fond of, and out of the blue, a stranger says: “Hey, that’s my grandpa!” Then—lest you think this stranger is somehow trying to ingratiate himself with you—he adds: “And everything you thought you knew about grandpa is wrong! Here, let me tell you what he really said and did throughout his life.” … [Read more...]
Dutch Interview with Raymond Ibrahim
Note: Last spring, I did an extensive interview with the subscription-only Dutch magazine, PAL NWS. It follows. Text in bold belongs to Sonja Dahlmans, who conducted the interview; non-bolded text is mine. Because this is a translation (and not my own) some of the text appears slightly garbled. Mr. Ibrahim is an expert in Islamic history, more specifically, the military … [Read more...]
Two Reasons Why American-Muslims Are So Islamophobic
Muslims in America are more Islamophobic than any other demographic in the United States. According to a recent poll, American Muslims saw fellow Muslims as being more uncivilized, more prone to violence, and more hostile to the United States than any other group, and often by very large margins. For example, whereas 19% of Muslims polled believed that fellow Muslims were … [Read more...]
The Unspoken Genocide of Christians in Nigeria
The Stream Did you know that, all throughout sub-Saharan Africa—in Nigeria, Mozambique, the Central African Republic, Mali, the Democratic Republic of Congo—Muslims have for many years been terrorizing and slaughtering Christians? Nor is there any hope on the horizon: problems that cannot be honestly addressed are doomed to persist in perpetuity. Enter the so-called … [Read more...]