by Raymond Ibrahim • Jun 1, 2012 at 1:54 pm Last month, Sheikh Yassir al-Burhami, a prominent figure in Egypt's Salafi movement—who also hates Christian Copts, hates Mother's Day, and is an advocate of taqiyya—appeared on the Egyptian show Al Hayat Al Youm ("Life Today"), giving his views on the presidential candidates. At one point, the host asked Burhami which of the … [Read more...]
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An ‘Imaginary’ President Appeases a Very Real Islam
Published in FrontPage Magazine titled "A President's Appeasement Politics" American intellectual Will Durant's The Lessons of History—co-written with wife Ariel and published in 1968, when the Soviet Union posed a threat to the United States—still offers insightful lessons, especially concerning American-Muslim relations. In the chapter titled "History and War," the Durants … [Read more...]
Mexican Jihad
Originally published by the Gatestone Institute As the United States considers the Islamic jihadi threats confronting it from all sides, it would do well to focus on its southern neighbor, Mexico, which has been targeted by Islamists and jihadists, who, through a number of tactics—from engaging in da'wa, converting Mexicans to Islam, to smuggling and the drug cartel, simple … [Read more...]
Truth Or Consequences
The Two Faces Of The Muslim Brotherhood by Wolff Bachner The Inquisitr In Part One of our examination of the Muslim Brotherhood, we outlined the history of the organization and detailed how they manipulate or distort their message to keep the West at bay. It is clear that the Brotherhood is keenly aware of the need to prevent non-Muslims from discovering the truth about their … [Read more...]
Refuting Muslim Apologetics Concerning Tawriya (“Creative Lying”)
Published in Jihad Watch Sam Shamoun of Answering Islam recently forwarded me an article titled "Tawriya: Islamic Doctrine of 'Creative Lying'? Response to Raymond Ibrahim," appearing on a website called Muslim Debate Initiative, and written by one Shadid ("Severe") Lewis in response to my recent exposition on the doctrine of tawriya. Although this response—poorly written, … [Read more...]
‘I Have Been Sent with Obfuscation’
by Andrew C. McCarthy National Review Online The quote is from Mohammed, Islam's founding prophet, in a canonical hadith. My friend Raymond Ibrahim alludes to it, and so much more, in "Tawriya: Islamic Doctrine of 'Creative Lying'," an essay published at both FrontPage Magazine and theStonegate Institute (and at Ray's website). It's interesting stuff, and slightly different … [Read more...]
Tawriya: Islamic Doctrine Permits ‘Creative Lying’
Perhaps you have heard of taqiyya, the Muslim doctrine that allows lying in certain circumstances, primarily when Muslim minorities live under infidel authority. Now meet tawriya, a doctrine that allows lying in virtually all circumstances—including to fellow Muslims and by swearing to Allah—provided the liar is creative enough to articulate his deceit in a way that is true to … [Read more...]
Obama: ‘Son of Islam’?
Many in the media are indignant with Reverend Franklin Graham, head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Invited on "Morning Joe" last Tuesday to discuss Christian persecution, the hosts turned the focus to interrogating Graham on whether he thought President Barack Obama was Christian or not. Though the Reverend concluded that Obama "has said he's a Christian, so I … [Read more...]
Acceptable lies and the New York Times
GetReligion.org The New York Times has an extraordinary article that extols the virtues of lying and doublespeak in a recent "Memo from Jerusalem." Well, you might ask, what of it? How does a dodgy story on the Arab-Israeli conflict fall within the ambit of GetReligion? What is the religion/journalism hook you ask? To which I respond: lying is a sin or bad manners or … [Read more...]
Congress Hears of the Plight of Egypt’s Christians
By Jamie Glazov - FrontPage Magazine editor Jamie Glazov interviews Raymond Ibrahim. Published in FrontPage Magazine FrontPage Interview's guest today is Raymond Ibrahim, an Islam expert and author of The Al Qaeda Reader. A Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum, he writes frequently on all things Islamic, … [Read more...]