Gatestone Institute A recent murder has cast a “fresh spotlight on Pakistan’s blasphemy laws”: on July 29, 2020, Tahir Naseem, 57, a U.S. citizen, was shot dead in a Pakistani courtroom, during a bail hearing for the charge of blasphemy, which included “denigrating the Koran and the Prophet Muhammad,” Reuters reported. Although his teenage slayer was apprehended and is … [Read more...]
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“Raymond Ibrahim 2, CAIR 0 — by KO”
The following interview was conducted by FrontPage Magazine editor, Jamie Glazov (original here): Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Raymond Ibrahim, a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is the author The Al Qaeda Reader (2007), Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians (2013), and Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of … [Read more...]
“32,000 Christians Butchered to Death”: Muslim Persecution of Christians, May 2020
Gatestone Institute The following are among the abuses Muslims inflicted on Christians throughout the month of May 2020: The Slaughter of Christians Nigeria: From January 2020 to mid-May 2020, Muslim terrorists massacred at least 620 Christians (470 by Fulani herdsmen and 150 by Boko Haram). According to a May 14 report: Militant Fulani Herdsmen and Boko Haram ... have … [Read more...]
Today in History: The Sword of Islam Conquers Ancient Christian Capital
American Thinker Today in history, on May 29, 1453, the sword of Islam conquered Constantinople. Of all 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 … [Read more...]
How and Why Muslims Delude Themselves about Islam
Egypt’s leading Muslim cleric and sheikh, Dr. Ahmed al-Tayeb—also known as Pope Francis’s “wolf in sheep’s clothing”—recently asserted a demonstrable falsehood. On April 30, 2020, during his televised program that appears every year around Ramadan and is watched by millions in Egypt and the Arab world, the Grand Imam of the Islamic world’s most prestigious university, Al … [Read more...]
Who Is Really “Being Stupid”: Jeff Goldblum or Islam’s Apologists?
FrontPage Magazine Irrationalism—particularly in the guise of emotionalism and relativism—has become the greatest defender and chief apologist for Islam in the West. Or so Jeff Goldblum is learning. Last Friday, April 24, 2020, the 67-year-old actor was a judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race. One of the contestants, Jackie Cox, a “drag queen” of Iranian background, appeared … [Read more...]
How “the Evil Called Barack Obama” Enabled the Genocidal Slaughter of Nigerian Christians
Not only is Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari behind what several international observers are calling a “genocide” of Christians in his nation, but Barack Hussein Obama played a major role in the Muslim president’s rise to power: these two interconnected accusations are increasingly being made—not by “xenophobic” Americans but Nigerians themselves, including several leaders … [Read more...]
“Jihadists Martyred Him for Refusing to Renounce Jesus Christ”: Muslim Persecution of Christians, February 2020
Gatestone Institute The following are some of the abuses Muslims inflicted on Christians throughout the month of February, 2020: The Slaughter of Christians Burkina Faso: On Sunday, February 16, Islamic gunmen raided a church during service and slaughtered 24 worshippers, including their pastor; 18 other congregants were injured during the jihad and several others … [Read more...]
Today in History: A Fateful Islamic Siege Begins
Today in history, April 6, 1453, the Ottoman Turks began their fateful siege of Constantinople. What prompted it? After all, the Turks and Byzantines had preexisting peace treaties. Did the Turks have a “grievance” against New Rome? No, it was just a good old fashioned jihad, prompted by the same exact logic that had prompted countless jihads before it: convert to … [Read more...]
“Defying Islamist Protests: Middle East Scholar Speaks at U.S. Army War College”
Note: The following account of my Feb. 26 lecture at the US Army War College was written by Leonard Getz, CPA, the Philadelphia Counter-Islamist Grid Associate at the Middle East Forum. It first appeared in American Thinker: On a 500-acre campus in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Middle East scholar Raymond Ibrahim was finally allowed to give his speech before a packed, mostly … [Read more...]