Articles by Raymond Ibrahim

Raymond Ibrahim | PJ Media In a CNN interview this week, presidential candidate Jeb Bush said that only Middle East Christians should be granted refugee status […]

In recent months, Mideast Christians have been forming militias to fight the Islamic State (IS) and other jihadi groups in both Iraq and Syria—even as […]

Obama recently lashed out against the idea of giving preference to Christian refugees, describing it as “shameful”: “That’s not American. That’s not who we are. […]

What is the grand, take away lesson from Friday’s jihadi/terrorist attack in Paris, that left 129 dead and hundreds injured? Is it a result of […]

According to several media sources, Hakan Fidan, the head of Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization, recently condemned Russian military intervention in Syria by saying Vladimir Putin […]

Raymond Ibrahim | Coptic Solidarity An Egyptian teacher of Arabic language whipped a 10-year-old Coptic Christian boy with 40 lashes using an electric wire last week […]

Raymond Ibrahim | Gatestone Institute Last April, police in Sicily reported that Muslim migrants hurled as many as 53 Christians overboard during a crossing from […]

Raymond Ibrahim | FrontPage Magazine During a recent televised interview with Grand Ayatollah Ahmad al-Baghdadi, the leading Shia cleric of Iraq made clear why Islam and […]

Ben Carson recently created controversy by warning against the Muslim doctrine of taqiyya, which allows Muslims to deceive non-Muslims.  I already addressed the accuracy of […]

The below 6-minute video is a must-see.  It offers an up close and personal account of what Christian minorities are experiencing at the hands of jihadis […]

This week, an Oregon gunman curiously singled out Christians during rampage: A woman who claimed to have a grandmother inside a writing class in Snyder Hall, […]

Raymond Ibrahim | Gatestone Institute The fate of those Iraqi Christians who had fled from the Islamic State only to be incarcerated in the United States […]

Raymond Ibrahim | FrontPage Magazine As refugees from the Middle East flood the West, a number of countries—including Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Cyprus, […]

Raymond Ibrahim | FrontPage Magazine The media is abuzz with news that a portion of the Koran, which Muslims believe was first recited by their prophet, Muhammad, may […]

Raymond Ibrahim | FrontPage Magazine What made non-Muslims convert to Islam, leading to the creation of the Islamic world?

Raymond Ibrahim | FrontPage Magazine Saudi Arabia recently preached to the international community about the need to confront “intolerance, extremism and human rights violations.”

Raymond Ibrahim | PJ Media If Islamic doctrines are inherently violent, why isn’t every single Muslim in the world—that is, approximately 1.5 billion people—violent? This […]

The Obama administration recently made changes to the Oath of Allegiance to the United States in a manner very conducive to Sharia, or Islamic law. […]

Raymond Ibrahim | FrontPage Magazine The Muslim penchant to target “white” women for sexual exploitation—an epidemic currently plaguing Europe, especially Britain and Scandinavia—is as old as […]

Pope Francis recently released a new encyclical.  Portions of it deal with environmentalism, global warming, and climate change.  Naturally, this has prompted controversy.

After failed negotiations, the Islamic State (IS) has refused to release 242 Christian hostages captured during a late February raid along the Khabur River in […]

Raymond Ibrahim | PJ Media Last Friday, April 24, we remembered how exactly 100 years ago the last historic Muslim caliphate, the Ottoman Empire, tried to […]

Raymond Ibrahim | National Review Online On the Ethiopians who were killed in Libya, and why we should expect more to come.

Raymond Ibrahim | FrontPage Magazine Approximately two months after the Islamic State (IS) published a video depicting its members slaughtering 21 Coptic Christians in Libya, on Sunday, […]

The Islamic State has just released another video where it executes more Christians, this time for not paying jizya — the tribute demanded of Christians […]

On Thursday, April 16, police in Sicily reported that Muslim migrants hurled 12 Christians overboard during a recent crossing from Libya; another forty-one Christians were […]

Around mid-April, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia –who once wrote a letter to Barack Obama beseeching the president to reconsider his foreign policies […]

Raymond Ibrahim | FrontPage Magazine Here in the United States, where Americans are used to hearing their president always invoke Christianity in a manner that silences […]

On April 10, two young Muslims in Lahore assaulted and set fire to a 14-year-old boy after they discovered he was Christian.  They were on their […]

As Christians and other minorities continue to be purged in the Middle East in general under the Islamic State and other jihadi organizations in particular, […]

As millions of Christian celebrated Easter Sunday morning, the Islamic State destroyed the Virgin Mary Church in Tel Nasri, northeast Syria. The Assyrian church of […]

Muslim wholesale slaughter of Christians struck again on April 2 in Kenya.  Gunmen from the Somali Islamic group, Al Shabaab—“the youth”—stormed Garissa University, singled out […]

Hussein bin Mahmoud, a jurist of Sharia law for the Islamic State, said in an article published on February 17 and appearing in various jihadi websites […]

A project to build a road around Fayum, Egypt, crosses the territory around the Coptic monastery of St. Macarius and threatens to destroy the ancient […]

In the early hours of Monday, February 23, Islamic State fighters attacked several Christian villages along the Khabur River in north eastern Syria. As many […]

The mother of Kyrillos (Cyrus), one of the 21 Coptic Christians recently butchered by the Islamic State in Libya, said in a recent interview that […]