Today in history, a battle that radical Muslims of the ISIS variety all but venerate took place between Muslims and Christians in Spain, or al-Andalus. Context: in 1085, Alfonso VI of Leon-Castile captured the Muslim city of Toledo, thereby formally initiating the Reconquista. Great was the lamentation among Muslims and great the rejoicing among Christians. The … [Read more...]
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“Today Is Your Last Day to Be Alive”: Muslim Persecution of Christians, August 2022
Gatestone Institute The following are among the abuses Muslims inflicted on Christians throughout the month of August, 2022: The Jihad on Christian Girls Pakistan: After refusing to review evidence from a Christian couple trying to recover their 12-year-old daughter from a married Muslim man accused of kidnapping the girl and forcing her to convert to Islam and marry him, … [Read more...]
Today in History: Western Christians Experience the Muslim Way of War
Today in history, Europe’s heavily armored knights and Islam’s jihadist light cavalry had their first, major pitched battle, at Dorylaeum, in Asia Minor. It had been two years since the First Crusade was called, and Europe’s Christians, led by the Franks and Normans, were deep in Asia Minor. They had already achieved their first victory, by liberating Nicaea (where the … [Read more...]
The Battle of Damietta: Saint Louis’ Greatest Victory Over Islam
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...]
CPAC: ‘RedState’s Brad Slager Speaks With Raymond Ibrahim, Author and Lecturer on Islamic Geopolitical Affairs’
While at the CPAC conference late last month in Orlando, RedState's Brad Slager interviewed me. Below is his writeup, followed by our video: A revealing interview with an expert on radical Islam affairs about the shifting tide of acceptance and censorship, at CPAC 2022 CPAC is a great forum for bringing together conservative politicians, but what is less recognized is that … [Read more...]
What Made a German Mother Hate ‘Infidels’ to the Point of ‘Martyring’ Her Own Son?
A female German convert to Islam was recently sentenced to over seven years in prison. The 44-year-old wife of a Palestinian man was found guilty of joining Islamic terror groups abroad, including the Islamic State in Syria. Moreover, according to a March 3, 2022 report (translated and summarized here), she had handed over her son, who was only 14 years old at the time, to … [Read more...]
An In-Depth Look at Islam’s Achilles Heel
American Thinker The history of Islam and the West has been one of unwavering antagonism and seismic clashes, often initiated by the followers of Muhammad. By the standards of history, nothing between the two forces is as well documented as this long war. Accordingly, for more than a millennium, both educated and not so educated Europeans knew—the latter perhaps … [Read more...]
Leftist Indifference to Christian Genocide
Gatestone Institute A recent and ostensibly insignificant "label change" by the U.S. Department of State sheds light on both President Joe Biden and former president Barack Obama, as well as on a potential presidential candidate for 2024, Hillary Clinton. On November 17, 2021, the State Department removed Nigeria from its list of Countries of Particular Concern, that is, … [Read more...]
Egyptian Scholar Sentenced to Five Years Imprisonment for Recounting Accurate History of Islam
According to a Nov. 19, 2021 report, “An Egyptian court sentenced an 80-year-old-intellectual earlier this week to five years in prison over his remarks on the early Islamic conquests.” Dr. Ahmed Abdu‘ Maher, a high-profile lawyer, expert on Islam, and author of 14 books on Islamic history and jurisprudence, was found guilty of “contempt of Islam, stirring up sectarian … [Read more...]
Ten Years of Muslim Persecution of Christians
July 2021 was the tenth anniversary of my monthly series, "Muslim Persecution of Christians" (published by the Gatestone Institute). Back in July 2011, I began to collate and summarize the accounts of persecution that surfaced every month in one report — so there is a record, so that when the time comes, the usual excuse, "we never knew," won't stand. Now that ten years of … [Read more...]