Raymond Ibrahim

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  Oct 15, 2013

  Top Muslim Authority Unwittingly Equates Jihad with Terrorism

  A recent Arabic article appearing in Egypt's Al Ahram newspaper titled "Is Terrorism Jihad?" written by Islamic law expert Dr. Abdul Fatah Idris offers important lessons—from the fact that jihad does involve subjugating non-Muslims to why the Western mentality is still incapable of acknowledging it.

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  Oct 4, 2013

  Surreal and Suicidal: Modern Western Histories of Islam

  Rereading some early history books concerning the centuries-long jihad on Europe, it recently occurred to me how ignorant the modern West is of its own past. The historical narrative being disseminated today bears very little resemblance to reality.

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  Oct 2, 2013

  Nigeria: Where Jihad and Christian Persecution Run Rampant

  Many around the world were recently made aware—got a small glimpse—of the Islamic jihad that plagues northern Nigeria, at the hands of Boko Haram, an organization dedicated to eradicating Christianity and enforcing the totality of Sharia law.

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  Sep 25, 2013

  Rape of Muslim Women; All in the Name of Jihad

  The sex jihad is back in the news. Last Thursday, during an address to the National Constituent Assembly, Tunisian Interior Minister Lotfi Bin Jeddo announced that Tunisian girls who had traveled to Syria to perform "sex jihad" had returned after being sexually "swapped between 20, 30, and 100 rebels and they come back bearing the fruit of sexual contacts [from pregnancies to diseases] in the name of sexual jihad and we are silent doing nothing and standing idle."

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  Sep 19, 2013

  Muslim Husbands Instructed to Hate Non-Muslim Wives

  Often translated as "Loyalty and Enmity," the little-known Islamic doctrine of wala' wa bara' commands Muslims never to befriend or be loyal to non-Muslims, while being clean of, disavowing and ultimately hating them.

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  Sep 11, 2013

  Muslim Brotherhood Imposes 'Jizya' Fine on Coptic Christians

  Now that the attacks on Egypt's Christian churches have subsided, stage two of the jihad — profiting from the fear and terror caused by stage one — is setting in.

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  Sep 9, 2013

  America's Hypocrisy for Syrian 'Human Rights'

  Did the Syrian government, or did it not, use chemical weapons — that is the question that will apparently decide whether the U.S. will enter another, messy war, one that may have many long-term consequences.

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  Sep 4, 2013

  Coptic Christians Killed for Ransom in Egypt

  Not only are the churches, monasteries, and institutions of Egypt's Christians under attack by the Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters—nearly 100 now have been torched, destroyed, ransacked, etc.—but Christians themselves are under attack all throughout Egypt, with practically zero coverage in Western media.

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  Sep 2, 2013

  Mideast Nuclear Holocaust: What Would an Iranian-Israeli Nuclear Exchange Look Like?

  Much of the public is conditioned by the mainstream media and government to focus on the short-term—U.S. presidents tend to concentrate only on matters pressing during their tenure—and rarely ever on longer-term issues or threats.