Raymond Ibrahim

Obama Tries to Eradicate Radical Islam

by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media The Obama administration has just announced its intent to ban all words that allude to Islam from important national security documents. Share This

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Wa Marco Polo an ‘Islamophobe’?

by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media If the same exact criticisms being made against Islam today were also made centuries ago, is it reasonable to automatically dismiss them all as “Islamophobic” — that is, as “unfounded fear of and hostility towards Islam,” as the Council on American Islamic Relations [1] would have it? Share This

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How Taqiyya Alters Islam’s Rules of War: Defeating Jihadist Terrorism

by Raymond Ibrahim Middle East Quarterly (Winter 2010) Islam must seem a paradoxical religion to non-Muslims. On the one hand, it is constantly being portrayed as the religion of peace; on the other, its adherents are responsible for the majority of terror attacks around the world. Share This

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Nidal Hasan and Fort Hood: A Study in Muslims Doctrine

by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media One of the difficulties in discussing Islam’s more troubling doctrines is that they have an anachronistic, even otherworldly, feel to them; that is, unless actively and openly upheld by Muslims, non-Muslims, particularly of the Western variety, tend to see them as abstract theory, not standard practice for today. Share This

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An Open Question to Osama Bin Laden–or Any Other Islamist

by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media Ever since 9/11, when Osama bin Laden was thrust into the spotlight, he has made it a point to occasionally submit questions to Americans — questions which he apparently thinks are unanswerable. Share This

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When Will Westerners Stop Westernizing Islamic Concepts?

by Raymond Ibrahim Middle East Forum Recently, Cathy Lynn Grossman of USA Today wrote an article about Muslim zakat, wherein I was referenced as a “critic of Islam.” She then followed up with another article titled “Critic questions the aims and ends of Islamic charity,” dedicated to examining my views on zakat. Share This

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Why Muslim Charities Fund the Jihad

by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media From what American schoolchildren are being taught [1] by their teachers to what Americans are being told by their presidents, concepts unique to Islam are nowadays almost always “Westernized.” Share This

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