Tag: Muslims

Kerry Boasts of ‘Pluralistic’ Syria Once Assad Gone

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by Raymond Ibrahim // RaymondIbrahim.com 

U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, was recently interviewed about Syria.  While many of his assertions can be debated, one especially requires a response.

U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv via Flickr
U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv via Flickr

Throughout the interview, he repeatedly insisted that, if Bashar Assad would only leave power, everything would go well — especially for all of Syria’s minorities.

In his words: “I believe that a peace can protect all of the minorities: Druze, Christian, Isma‘ilis, Alawites — all of them can be protected, and you can have a pluralistic Syria, in which minority rights of all people are protected.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Kerry declared that “The world would protect the Alawites, Druze, Christians, and all minorities in Syria after the ousting of Assad.” Continue reading “Kerry Boasts of ‘Pluralistic’ Syria Once Assad Gone” →

The Existential Elephant in the ‘Christian Persecution’ Room

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by Raymond Ibrahim // CBN News 

Open Doors USA recently released its widely cited 2014 World Watch List—a report that highlights and ranks the 50 worst nations around the globe persecuting

2014 World Watch List global map of Christian persecution (darker colors more severe).
2014 World Watch List global map of Christian persecution (darker colors more severe).

Christians. Continue reading “The Existential Elephant in the ‘Christian Persecution’ Room” →

Armenian Christians Pressured to Convert to Islam

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by Raymond Ibrahim // RaymondIbrahim.com 

Arabic language websites reported earlier this week that the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant—which, throughout the course of the war against the Assad government has committed any number of atrocities, from decapitating “infidels” to burning churches—has successfully “forced” two Armenian Christian families to convert to Islam. Continue reading “Armenian Christians Pressured to Convert to Islam” →

The Muslim Who Amputated His Hands, ‘According to Islamic Sharia’

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by Raymond Ibrahim // RaymondIbrahim.com 

“Infidels,” or non-Muslims, or the wrong kinds of Muslims (Alawites and Shia for example) are often seen as the natural recipients of Islamic violence, or jihad, as prescribed by Islamic law, the Sharia.

Few, however, are aware exactly how Sharia can cause individual Muslims to do violence upon themselves. Continue reading “The Muslim Who Amputated His Hands, ‘According to Islamic Sharia’” →

‘Muslim’ Jesus Demands Sharia Law and Jizya Tribute

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by Raymond Ibrahim // RaymondIbrahim.com 

Time and again, Muslims, especially those in Egypt, project Islamic thinking onto Christians: thus the Coptic church has been accused of smuggling and storing weapons in its churches to take over the nation (when in fact mosques are regularly exposed housing illegal weapons for the jihad); of kidnapping and torturing Coptic girls who convert to Islam (when in fact Muslim converts to Christianity—apostates—are regularly beat, imprisoned, and sometimes killed); and even of supporting suicide-attacks when the church speaks of Copts being martyred (because in Islam being “martyred” so often means actively sacrificing one’s life in “holy war”). Continue reading “‘Muslim’ Jesus Demands Sharia Law and Jizya Tribute” →

Muslim Blood Superior to Infidel Blood

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by Raymond Ibrahim // RaymondIbrahim.com 

Arguing that Muslim blood is more precious than infidel blood, Muslim clerics in and out of Sudan are outraged because a Sudanese court has condemned a Muslim man to death—simply because he murdered a non-Muslim, the American diplomat John Granville on January 1, 2008. Continue reading “Muslim Blood Superior to Infidel Blood” →

Exploiting Christian Persecution to Demonize Israel

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by Raymond Ibrahim // RaymondIbrahim.com 

What’s worse than the silence of Western Christians concerning the Muslim persecution of their coreligionists in the Islamic world?  Answer: Cynically exploiting that persecution for a political agenda—in the case of a recent Daily Beast article, to excoriate the state of Israel and its supporters. Continue reading “Exploiting Christian Persecution to Demonize Israel” →

How Historic Revisionism Justifies Islamic Terrorism

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by Raymond Ibrahim // RaymondIbrahim.com 

How important, really, is history to current affairs?  Do events from the 7th century—or, more importantly, how we understand them—have any influence on U.S. foreign policy today?

By way of answer, consider some parallels between academia’s portrayal of the historic Islamic jihads and the U.S. government’s and media’s portrayal of contemporary Islamic jihads.  Continue reading “How Historic Revisionism Justifies Islamic Terrorism” →

Islamic Doctrines Justify Sex Jihad (With Video)

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by Raymond Ibrahim // RaymondIbrahim.com 

Note: A 15-minute video of men and women from various nations discussing their experiences with the sex jihad in Syria, translated from Arabic to English by my colleagues, appears beneath this article (you may need to click on “CC” (closed caption”) for the English subtitles to appear).

burka-124601533266629000As news of the sex jihad continues toproliferate in Mideast media, and as the West continues to bury its head in the sand—here for example is Der Spiegel’s attempt to portray as “false” the “tales of rebels engaging in ‘sex jihad’ and massacring Christians”—it is instructive to note that even the practice of sex jihad has specific doctrinal validation in Islam (which should hardly be surprising considering that “adult breastfeeding” also has validation).

First there is the general justification for sex jihad, namely that, because Muslim men waging jihad have become sexually frustrated in their camps, losing morale and quitting the theatre of war, Continue reading “Islamic Doctrines Justify Sex Jihad (With Video)” →

Bloody Weekend: Trend of Muslim Rage Against ‘Infidels’ Continues

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by Raymond Ibrahim // The Blaze 

Muslim slaughter of non-Muslim “infidels” saw an especially dramatic weekend in the nations of Pakistan and Kenya.  Even so, these are simply the latest in a long list of jihadi attacks on the Christians of both nations. Continue reading “Bloody Weekend: Trend of Muslim Rage Against ‘Infidels’ Continues” →