The following hard-hitting letter was written by Mohamed Tawfik, Egyptian Ambassador to the United States, and submitted to the editor of the Washington Post. It reiterates many of the points I have made over the years -- including the MSM's pro-Brotherhood bias, its whitewashing of Boko Haram's anti-Christian jihad in Nigeria, and even its rationalizations for the Islamic … [Read more...]
Washington Times Interviews Raymond Ibrahim on Muslim Persecution of Christians
Note: Yesterday the Washington Times' Cheryl Wetzstein interviewed me on the topic of Christian persecution in Muslim lands, especially in the context of Nigeria. The interview appeared later that day (yesterday) and follows (Portuguese translation here): "Nigeria Elections Put Christians in Danger of More Muslim Attacks" By Cheryl Wetzstein Washington Times Muslim … [Read more...]
Thousand Churches Destroyed in Nigeria: Muslim Persecution of Christians, October 2014
Gatestone Institute In just two months, from August to October, nearly 200 Christian churches were destroyed by the Islamic organization Boko Haram and its Muslim allies after their capture of towns and villages in the north-eastern states of Borno and Adamawa. In the words of Reverend Gideon Obasogie, the director of Catholic Social Communication of Maiduguri Diocese in Borno … [Read more...]
How Western Media Enable Islamic Terrorism
FrontPage Magazine As the West experiences a rise in the sort of terror attacks that are endemic to the Islamic world—church attacks, sex-slavery and beheadings—it is only natural that the same mainstream media that habitually conceals such atrocities “over there,” especially against Christians and other minorities under Islam, would also conceal the reality of jihadi … [Read more...]
Muslim Persecution of Christians, May 2014
Published by the Gatestone Institute The deplorable state of religious freedom in the Islamic world came to the fore in May when news of the arrest, imprisonment, and death sentencing of a pregnant Christian wife and mother on the accusation that she had left Islam for Christianity reached the world. On May 15, Meriam Ibrahim of Sudan was sentenced to flogging followed by … [Read more...]