FrontPage Magazine In light of the ongoing nightmare that is the Islamic State, Foreign Policy, a magazine somewhat reflective of the establishment, has published an article that once again demonstrates why U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East is a disaster: because analysts and policymakers, unable or unwilling to grapple with foreign concepts, opt to articulate them … [Read more...]
Islamic State Atrocities: Products of ‘Grievances’?
French FrontPage Magazine While many have rightfully criticized U.S. President Obama’s recent assertion that the Islamic State “is not Islamic,” some of his other equally curious but more subtle comments pronounced in the same speech have been largely ignored. Consider the president’s invocation of the “grievances” meme to explain the Islamic State’s success: “At this … [Read more...]
Raymond Ibrahim on CBN News: Christian Woman Facing Execution ‘Tip of Iceberg’
On June 6, Raymond Ibrahim appeared on CBN News discussing the plight of Sudan's Meriam Ibrahim -- a wife and mother on death row for refusing to renounce Christianity and embrace Islam. … [Read more...]
Sudan Mother’s Case ‘Tip of the Iceberg’ on Islamic Persecution
CBN News Slovak Evidence has again emerged indicting that if Western mainstream media actually reported more on the sufferings of Christians throughout the Islamic world, their lot would likely improve. Meriam Ibrahim, a woman who is imprisoned in Sudan and sentenced to death on the charge that she apostatized from Islam and converted to Christianity—and who recently gave … [Read more...]
Nigerian ‘Sex-Slaves’ Disrupt Obama Narrative on Islam
Islamic law permits the possession of concubines, or sex slaves. This has been demonstrated countless times, including through Islamic clerics quoting Islamic scriptures, and through ordinary Muslims, past and present, acting on it. That said, Islamic sanctioned sex-slavery does not perturb the Western world simply because the powers-that-be—specifically academia, media, … [Read more...]