September 9, 2021 — I recently appeared on ‘America, Can We Talk?’ with Debbie Georgatos in a segment titled “Afghan Jihadists Emboldened.” Several topics were discussed in the near 30-minute video, which follows: https://vimeo.com/595994195
Open Platform Video: Raymond Ibrahim on Turkey’s Terroristic Role Against Armenia
ARMENIA — March 8, 2021 — I as recently interviewed on Open Platform, a talk show on Public TV of Armenia. The official description and video follow: Erdogan continues to praise terrorist sultans | Davit Muradyan and Raymond Ibrahim, Author of “Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West”, Middle East and Islam specialist, discussed the …
Israel’s Normalization with Four Muslim Nations
By RAYMOND IBRAHIM
The Good News – and the Bad. WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NY — January 27, 2021 — Israel recently signed agreements establishing relations with four Muslim nations: the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco. Both good and bad news surround this development. The bad news is bland and predictable: a permanent peace between Israel and its Muslim neighbors is, according to Islamic law, …
By RAYMOND IBRAHIM
Three Christians Slaughtered in French Church; Raymond Ibrahim in Stephen Bannon’s War Room
I was in the War Room with Stephen Bannon a few minutes ago, discussing the recent slaughter of three Christians — one of whom was beheaded — in a Catholic church in France. The video follows; the segment begins around the 1:51:05 mark. NOTE: The comments and some other features on RaymondIbrahim.com were recently compromised and are no longer functioning …
The Battle of Kulikovo: Russian Liberation From the Muslim Horde
By RAYMOND IBRAHIM
SEPTEMBER 11, 2020 —On September 8, 1380, Russia began its long march to liberation from the Tatar yoke, by way of a battle that is as important to Russian history as the battles of Tours and Vienna are to the West. Although pagan when they conquered Russia around 1240, by 1300 the Mongols were thoroughly Islamized. Arabic was adopted, “the …
By RAYMOND IBRAHIM
Coptic Christians Ordered to Sell Home and Leave Village
By RAYMOND IBRAHIM
AUGUST 22, 2020 — An Egyptian government-appointed village mayor has just ruled that a Christian family must sell its home and leave their village, in what is being described as a strange and unprecedented incident for that village. This happened during a traditional “reconciliation session.” In Egypt, local authorities and involved parties of a dispute often meet outside of courtrooms …
By RAYMOND IBRAHIM
Today in History: Islam Ascends a European Field of Carrion
By RAYMOND IBRAHIM
Today, June 15, 1389, a pivotal military encounter between Islam and the West took place: the Battle of Kosovo. In its wake, Islam became a dominant force in Eastern Europe, subjugating much of the Balkans ’til the early twentieth century. The story of that battle — and why Eastern Europe’s modern-day descendants remain wary of the religion of Muhammad — follows: As …
By RAYMOND IBRAHIM
The Battle of Covadonga: A “Mustard Seed” of Christian Liberation from Muslim Rule is Planted in Spain on May 28, 722
By RAYMOND IBRAHIM
Thirteen-hundred years ago, on May 28, 722,* a little known but profoundly important battle was waged, setting the tone for the next eight hundred years of Christian/Muslim “coexistence” in Spain: the Battle of Covadonga. * Although scholarly consensus currently supports the date of May 28, 722, earlier historians placed the date of the battle to 718. Ten years earlier, Arabs …
By RAYMOND IBRAHIM
The “Image of Hell”: Islam’s Siege of Malta
By RAYMOND IBRAHIM
Today in history, May 18, 1565, one of the most symbolically important military encounters between Islam and Europe began: the Ottoman Turks besieged the tiny island of Malta, in what was then considered the heaviest bombardment any locale had been subjected to. Around the start of the sixteenth century, Muslim pirates from Algiers began to terrorize the Christian Mediterranean. Like …
By RAYMOND IBRAHIM
No Break for Islamist Hate
By RAYMOND IBRAHIM
At a time when the lives of the people of Egypt have been, like the lives of most people around the world, disrupted by coronavirus; at a time when Egyptians, like others, are wearing masks, staying indoors and social distancing—a group of undeterred Islamic terrorists were preparing to launch a major terror strike on Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox churches during their …
By RAYMOND IBRAHIM