Raymond Ibrahim

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  Oct 7, 2014

  The Islamic State: Another Obama, Arab Spring Creation?

  Over a decade ago, the U.S. conquered Iraq; its military and intelligence were on the ground for years with autonomy. In other words, U.S. influence and authority was more pronounced in Iraq than probably any other Muslim country in the world.

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  Sep 18, 2014

  Obama: 'Grievances' Behind Islamic State Horror

  While many have rightfully criticized U.S. President Obama's recent assertion that the Islamic State "is not Islamic," some of his other equally curious but more subtle comments pronounced in the same speech have been largely ignored.

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  Sep 9, 2014

  Islamic Rape Gangs: A Global Phenomenon

  As shocking as the Muslim-run sex ring in Rotherham, England may seem to some—1,400 British children as young as 11 plied with drugs before being passed around and sexually abused in cabs and kabob shops—the fact is that this phenomenon is immensely widespread. In the United Kingdom alone, it's the fifth sex abuse ring led by Muslims to be uncovered.

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  Aug 29, 2014

  The Muslim Rape of Christian Nuns

  Despite how unsavory and barbaric Islamic groups and persons around the world have been acting—whether Nigeria's Boko Haram, Mesopotamia's Islamic State, Somalia's Shabaab—perhaps few things are as disgusting and cowardly as the Muslim rape of nuns: defenseless Christian women who sacrifice much of their lives to help sick and needy Muslims.

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  Aug 20, 2014

  Sharks and Islamists: Are They Both Misunderstood?

  Recently I spent some time watching Shark Week on television. Being fascinated with large predatory fish, I've watched many shark programs throughout the years. And I've reached one conclusion: the "liberal" response one is accustomed to when the topic of Islam and Islamists come up—that they are misunderstood, that we need to respect their ways and be tolerant, that it's our fault we get attacked—has become so embedded in the Western psyche that it now colors our understanding of the animal wor

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  Jul 30, 2014

  Islamic Jizya: 'Protection' from Whom?

  Here I expose another big lie from Mideast Studies professors.

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  Jul 25, 2014

  World Leaders Lambast Obama's 'Failures' in the Middle East

  World leaders are increasingly pointing to U.S. President Obama's failures in the Middle East.

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  Jul 18, 2014

  New Islamic Caliphate Declares Jihad on … Muslims

  The new "caliphate" of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi—the Islamic State, formerly "ISIS"—recently made clear that it means to follow in the footsteps of the original caliphate of Abu Bakr al-Sadiq (632-634), specifically by directing its jihad against fellow Muslims, in Islamic parlance, the "hypocrites" and "apostates," or in Western terminology, "moderates."

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  Jul 10, 2014

  Jihadi Rhetoric: Tiresome but Deadly

  I just spent the better part of the day reading and listening to sermons by the leaders and jihadis of the new "caliphate" in Mesopotamia, the Islamic State (formerly "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria"). I did so in the vain hopes of learning something "new."

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  Jul 5, 2014

  Obama, Muslim Brotherhood, and Mideast Chaos: Presidential Study Directive 11

  A recent Gulf News report sheds some light on how and why the United States helped bring the Muslim Brotherhood and its Islamist allies to power, followed by all the subsequent chaos and atrocities in the Mideast region.