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 Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
The November presidential election was the favorite topic at the Freedom Center’s West Coast Retreat last weekend. Amidst the prognostications and arguments about which Republican would or should get the nomination Continue reading “Obama a Creature of the Corrupt University”
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 Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Conservatives are put into awkward positions of critiquing liberal ideas on grounds that they are impractical, unworkable, or counterproductive. Yet rarely, at least outside the religious sphere, do they identify the progressive as often immoral [1]. Continue reading “Liberal Illiberalism: The Liberal Assault on Liberalism”
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”
by Raymond Ibrahim
Jihad Watch
According to several Arabic news sources, last Monday, Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, declared that it is “necessary to destroy all the churches of the region.” Continue reading “Saudi Grand Mufti Calls for “Destruction of All Churches in Region””
by Raymond Ibrahim
Jihad Watch
Because it is now almost axiomatic for American school textbooks to whitewash all things Islamic (see here for example), it may be instructive to examine one of those aspects that are regularly distorted: the Muslim conquests. Continue reading “The Historical Reality of the Muslim Conquests”
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
The riots and violence in Afghanistan over some accidentally burned Korans are following a script that by now is all too drearily familiar. Continue reading “Koran Burning and Destructive Double Standards”
by Raymond Ibrahim
Stonegate Institute
Many in the media are indignant with Reverend Franklin Graham, head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Invited on “Morning Joe” last Tuesday to discuss Christian persecution, the hosts turned the focus to interrogating Graham on whether he thought President Barack Obama was Christian or not. Continue reading “Obama, ‘Son of Islam’?”
by Raymond Ibrahim
Jihad Watch
With only a 12% Muslim minority, and an 84% Christian majority, Uganda may not seem a hotspot of Islamic activity. Yet, in recent weeks and months, story after story of attacks on Muslim converts to Christianity have emerged, with troubling implications beyond the intrinsic level. Continue reading “Muslim Converts to Christianity Under Attack in Uganda”