by Raymond Ibrahim
Gatestone Institute
Sheikh Ali Wanis, an Egyptian parliament member and prominent figure in the Nour Party — the Salafi party which preaches a return to early Islam based on Muhammad’s practices — was recently caught in a “compromising position” with a female other than his legal spouse(s). Continue reading “Salafi Sex Scandals”
by Raymond Ibrahim
FrontPage Magazine
Ostensibly dealing with a building, a recent report demonstrates how Turkey’s populace — once deemed the most secular and liberal in the Muslim world — is reverting to its Islamic heritage, complete with animosity for the infidel West and dreams of Islam’s glory days of jihad and conquest. According to Reuters: Continue reading “Greatest Church Soon To Be Mega Mosque?”
by Raymond Ibrahim
FrontPage Magazine
Inasmuch as the recent death of Coptic Pope Shenouda III exposed the humanity of some Muslims, it also exposed the inhumanity of Islamic teachings. Continue reading “Islamic Hate for a Dead Pope”
by Raymond Ibrahim
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 extortion, kidnappings and enslavement Continue reading “Mexican Jihad”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Almost daily we read of America’s “waning power” and “inevitable decline,” as observers argue over the consequences of defense cuts and budget crises. Continue reading “Decline or Decadence?”
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
A review of Robert Spencer’s Did Muhammad Exist?: An Inquiry into Islam’s Obscure Origins (Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2012). Continue reading “Robert Spencer Asks: Did Muhammad Exist?”
by Raymond Ibrahim
Gatestone Institute
Last Sunday, many Christians around the world celebrated Easter, taking it for granted that they can congregate and worship in peace. Not so; in the Islamic world, where top religious officials call for the destruction of churches, Christian holidays celebrated in church are increasingly a time of death and destruction, a time of terror. Continue reading “Death in Churches: Targeting Christian Holidays in the Islamic World”
by Terry Scambray
New Oxford Review
A review of The Wages of Appeasement: Ancient Athens, Munich, and Obama’s America by Bruce S. Thornton. (Encounter Books, 2011 pp. 283) Continue reading “Appeasement Bode War Not Peace”
by Raymond Ibrahim
Stonegate Institute
Perhaps you have heard of taqiyya, the Muslim doctrine that allows lying in certain circumstances, primarily when Muslim minorities live under infidel authority. Continue reading “Tawriya: New Islamic Doctrine Permits ‘Creative Lying’”
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
New Jersey jury on Friday convicted a Rutgers freshman of “bias intimidation,” among several other charges. Continue reading “A Dangerous Verdict in New Jersey”