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		<title>Raymond Ibrahim on Western Myopia of the Jihad</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2014 05:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shillman Journalism Fellow explains the "Hydra of Jihad" and Western blindness. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/hydra.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-248028" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/hydra.jpg" alt="hydra" width="301" height="226" /></a>Raymond Ibrahim, Shillman Fellow at the Freedom Center, was recently interviewed on Reel Talk with Audrey Russo.  Topics ranged from Joe Biden’s ISIS failures to the “Hydra of Jihad,” to Islam’s influences on non-Muslims throughout history.  <a href="http://www.audreyrusso.com/Raymond_Ibrahim_1114_intro.mp3"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Click here</span></a> to listen to the 25-minute interview.</p>
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		<title>Raymond Ibrahim on ISIS&#8217;s Threat to America</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2014 05:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Freedom Center's Shillman Fellow sheds light on Islam vs. the West throughout history.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #323333;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/02.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-246100 size-full" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/02.jpg" alt="0" width="317" height="266" /></a>Shillman Fellow Raymond Ibrahim was interviewed last month on &#8220;<a href="http://calltorights.com/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">A Call to Rights Radio Show</span></a>&#8221; with Steve Kates. Topics ranged from the dangers of the Islamic State, history and the Crusades, Christian persecution, and the Obama administration’s policies.  To listen to the nearly one-hour long interview, <a href="http://calltorights.com/audio/CTR100414Hour1.mp3"><span style="color: #0433ff;">click here</span></a> (interview starts around the 9-minute mark)</p>
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		<title>Newest Prager University Course: Raymond Ibrahim on Christian Persecution</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2014 05:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shillman Journalism Fellow discusses the greatest human rights atrocity of the present day. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>The newest Prager University course is taught by Raymond Ibrahim, a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. In the video-course, titled &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytdMUddGe-U">The World’s Most Persecuted Minority: Christians</a>,” Ibrahim identifies the greatest human rights atrocity of the present day, its perpetrators, and why the media won&#8217;t talk about it. View the video below.  </strong></p>
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		<title>How Un-Islamic Is Islamic Terror? – on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2014 04:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two of the world’s leading scholars on Islam refuse to engage in willful blindness.]]></description>
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<p>After the recent terror attack in Canada, the media and cultural elites were at it again: <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/10/canadas-national-post-its-been-a-tough-week-for-canadian-muslims">painting Muslims as the victims</a> and pushing the obvious role of Islam in the terror attack into invisibility.</p>
<p>In response to all of the Islam-Denial transpiring in the West today, including the assurances from Obama about the supposed un-Islamic nature of the Islamic State, Frontpage is running <em>The Glazov Gang’</em>s feature interviews with two of the world’s leading scholars on Islam: <strong>Raymond Ibrahim</strong> and <strong>David Wood</strong>.</p>
<p>Both discussions unveil the true roots of Jihadi terrorist groups such as ISIS and reveal the lie behind the statements by our leaders and mainstream media denying the Islamic role in Islamic terror.</p>
<p>Ibrahim and Wood both issue a dire warning about the hazardous danger our society faces if it continues to deceive itself about the real enemy we face.</p>
<p>See both interviews below:</p>
<p><strong>Raymond Ibrahim on <em>&#8220;ISIS&#8217;s Islamic Inspirations&#8221;</em>:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>David Wood on &#8220;<em>The Top Ten Qur&#8217;an Verses to Understand ISIS</em>&#8220;:</strong></p>
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		<title>The Islamic State is Not Islamic? &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2014 04:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scholars Robert Spencer and Raymond Ibrahim unveil the true roots of Jihad and the dire danger of denying them.]]></description>
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<p>In his recent speech about his ISIS “policy,” President Obama emphasized one of his favorite themes: that ISIS is not Islamic. “No religion,” he assured the world, “condones the killing of innocents… ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.”</p>
<p>In response to the president’s statement on the supposed un-Islamic nature of the terrorist Islamic State, Frontpage is re-running <em>The Glazov Gang’s </em>feature interviews with two of the world’s leading scholars on Islam: JihadWatch&#8217;s Robert Spencer and Shillman Journalism Fellow Raymond Ibrahim.</p>
<p>Both discussions unveil the true roots of Jihadi terrorist groups such as ISIS and reveal the lie behind the statements such as those recently made by Obama denying the Islamic role in Islamic terror. Spencer and Ibrahim both issue a dire warning about the hazardous danger our society faces by deceiving itself about the real enemy we face.</p>
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<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Raymond Ibrahim:</strong></p>
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		<title>Raymond Ibrahim Talks Islam &amp; Christian Persecution</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2014 04:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shillman Journalism fellow explains the current conflict engulfing the Middle East. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/0.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238698" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/0.jpg" alt="0" width="279" height="234" /></a>Raymond Ibrahim, a Shillman Fellow at the Freedom Center, recently did several interviews and presentations on a variety of topics dealing with Islam.  Some of these follow:</p>
<p>•Ibrahim chaired a panel discussion on the Western media at the annual Coptic Solidarity conference held in Capitol Hill, D.C. His segment appears <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAZ024pypZ4">here</a>, starting around the 13:15 mark. (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BftXarF6X64">Click here</a> for the other panelists’ presentations, including Michael Coren, Erick Stakelbeck, Ryan Mauro, and Raymond Arroyo.)</p>
<p>•An interview on In the Market with Janet Parshall, in a segment titled “Islam’s Quest for Control.”  <a href="http://www.moodyradio.org/radioplayer.aspx?episode=138446&amp;hour=2">Click here to listen</a> (the 30 minute segment begins around the 21:30 mark).</p>
<p>•An interview on the “sex jihad” on Huffington Post’s “Huffpost Live,” with host Marc Lamont Hill. <a href="http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/isis-sexual-jihad-iraq/53a9b36578c90a10c20000be">Click here to view</a>.</p>
<p>•An interview on the “big picture” of Muslim persecution of Christians on the Steve Deace Show. <a href="http://stevedeace.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/deace_hour3_071614.mp3">Click here to listen</a>.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/islam-will-dominate-the-world.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237933" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/islam-will-dominate-the-world-450x350.jpg" alt="islam-will-dominate-the-world" width="307" height="239" /></a>Raymond Ibrahim, a Shillman Fellow at the Freedom Center, was recently interviewed by Fronda, a leading website in Poland.  The English-language version of the Polish interview, originally titled “</i><a href="http://www.fronda.pl/a/raymond-ibrahim-plaszczenie-sie-przed-islamem,39012.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>Raymond Ibrahim: Prostration before Islam</i></span></a><i>,” follows:</i></p>
<p><strong>1. Who is Raymond Ibrahim? A scholar, a writer, an activist? What is his mission and the main goal?</strong></p>
<p>Raymond Ibrahim: I am a little of all that and more.  Due to my background, academic and personal, I have had a long interest in the Middle East and Islam, especially the historic and contemporary interaction between Islam and Christianity.  After the strikes of September 11, 2001, I took an interest in the current events of the region vis-à-vis the West, and what immediately struck me was how, on the one hand, the conflict was almost identical to the historic conflict, one of continuity—at least that is how many Muslims were portraying it.</p>
<p>But on the other hand, in the West, the narrative was very different and based on a “new paradigm,” one that saw Islam and Muslims as perpetual victims of all sorts of outside and material pressures, mostly from the West.  Thus the analyses that were being disseminated through media and academia were to my mind immensely flawed and, while making perfect sense to people in the West—for they were articulated through Western, secular, materialistic paradigms—had little to do with reality as I saw and understood it.</p>
<p>That was one of the reasons I left academia and began writing for more popular audiences, to try to offer a corrective to these flawed narratives.  My first book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Qaeda-Reader-Essential-Terrorist-Organization/dp/076792262X/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1407175739&amp;sr=1-2"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>The Al Qaeda Reader</i></span></a> (2007), was meant to do precisely this—to compare the words of al-Qaeda as delivered to the West and as delivered to fellow Muslims, and to show how when speaking to the West, al-Qaeda and other Islamists used Western arguments, claiming any number of grievances, political and otherwise, as being the source of their jihad.  Obviously such arguments, widely disseminated by Western mainstream media, made perfect sense to the West.</p>
<p>But al-Qaeda’s Arabic writings that I discovered when I was working at the African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., and which I translated for the book, made completely different arguments, basically saying that, irrespective of all grievances, Muslims must hate and wage jihad on all non-Muslim “infidels” until they come under Islamic authority, according to the worldview of Sharia, or Islamic law.</p>
<p>So in a way, you can say my mission since then has been to open Western eyes to the truths and reality of Islam—at least the reality of how it is understood and practiced by many Muslims—for Western eyes have been closed shut in recent times.</p>
<p><strong>2. You have a dual background. You were born and raised in the U.S. by parents who were born and raised in a Coptic community in Egypt. Are you the ‘clash of civilizations’ personified? What kind of advantages and disadvantages does such an identity and upbringing lead do?</strong></p>
<p>Raymond Ibrahim: That’s an interesting way of putting it.  Along with obvious benefits—being bilingual (Arabic and English), for example—yes, I do believe my background gives me more subtle advantages.  Growing up cognizant of both worlds and cultures has, I believe, imparted a higher degree of objectivity to my thinking.  Most people’s worldviews are colored by whichever culture they are immersed in—hence exactly why so many Western people tend to project their own values on the Islamic world, convinced that any violence and intolerance that comes from that region must be a product of some sort of socio-political or economic “grievance”—some sort of material, not religious, factor.  While I understand, appreciate and participate in Western values and norms, because of my “dual” background, I also cannot project such values and norms on non-Western peoples (and vice-versa, of course).</p>
<p>This has caused my worldview to be, I believe, more neutral and objective, less colored by cultural values and references.  Conversely, I have, so far, not encountered any notable disadvantages from such a background—other than perhaps being overly objective and not always able to participate in the common.</p>
<p><strong>3. In addition to numerous articles in a variety of media, you are also the author of two books. The last one, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1621570258/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1621570258&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=uhurnetw-20"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians</i></span></a> argues that martyrdom is not a thing from the past. It is not a book with a happy ending, is it?</strong></p>
<p>I prefer to think of it as a dire wake up call to the West.  The topic of Muslim persecution of Christians is a perfect example of what I’m talking about.  In <i>Crucified Again</i>, I look at the history of this phenomenon, the Islamic scriptures that support it, and the modern era.   And what I find and document is unwavering continuity.  According to Islamic teaching, Christians and other non-Muslims are “infidels,” and as such, they are seen as at best third class subjects in Islamic states.  They cannot build or renovate churches, display crosses or Bibles; they have to pay tribute with humility, according to Koran 9:29; they cannot speak well of Christianity or criticize Islam.  They are even required to give up their seats to a Muslim if he demands it, according to strict Islamic teaching (and as found in the “<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/western-ignorance-of-the-conditions-of-omar/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Conditions of Omar</span></a>,” an important text that discusses how Christian minorities are to be treated under Islam).</p>
<p>Now if you look at history—as recorded by early Arabic/Islamic historians—you will see that that is exactly how Christians were treated under Islam for centuries; that is exactly how nations like Egypt, Syria, Turkey, and all of north Africa, went from being Christian majority to Muslim majority over the centuries: most Christians opted to convert to Islam rather than constantly suffer from third-class status as well as sporadic persecution.</p>
<p>And today, what we are seeing is simply the ongoing continuation of history, as Christians continue to be persecuted, continue to dwindle in numbers in lands that were Christian centuries before Western Europe embraced the faith.  Yet, according to Western analysts, etc., all of this is some sort of “misunderstanding” or because Muslims are angry about Israel—anything and everything but codified religious intolerance, even though the latter is so well documented, doctrinally, historically, and in current events.</p>
<p><strong>4. There are many initiatives aimed at bringing the ‘spirit of dialogue’ between the religions. In the Catholic Church we even celebrate a Day of Islam. What is your opinion on this kind of inter-faith outreach? Will it be successful in decreasing the persecution of Christians or helping individuals like Asia Bibi?</strong></p>
<p>Raymond Ibrahim: No, it will exacerbate Christian persecution.  From my perspective, the more the West and/or Christianity kowtow to Islam—and that is what modern day “interfaith outreach” often amounts to—the more aggressive that religion becomes.</p>
<p>Here, again, is another example of Westerners projecting their norms onto others, namely, Muslims.  In the Western paradigm, itself an offshoot of Christianity, showing tolerance and forgiveness will supposedly cause some sort of reciprocation from the one being forgiven and tolerated—since everything is always supposedly a “misunderstanding.”  Yet in Islam, might has always made right, and “tolerance” has always been seen as sign of equivocation or weakness—a lack of conviction.  If Christians praise Islam, so many Muslims conclude, that is because they feel it is the truth—not because they are trying to find commonalities, a paradigm that is foreign to classical Islam, which sees the world in terms of right (Islam) and wrong (non-Islam).</p>
<p>Again, history sheds some light on this.  In the medieval era, there were Christians like Francis of Assisi who tried to have dialogue with Muslims—but in order to get to the truth, including by asking hard questions about Islam often in the context of Christian teaching.  Such dialogue is of course admirable because it is sincere.  But trying to have dialogue in order to find and parade some minor “commonalities”—while overlooking and ignoring the fundamental differences, which are much more immense and the true sources of conflict—is simply a game of wasting time.</p>
<p><strong>5. In your writings regarding the Muslim persecutions of Christians, two themes are constantly recurring. Firstly, you claim that it constitutes “an elephant in the room” and secondly you believe that liberal academia and media are biased “whitewashing Islam and blaming the West” for Islamic attacks against non-Muslims. Can you explain the reasons for such arguments?</strong></p>
<p>It’s the “elephant in the room” because few things show such remarkable continuity between the past and the present—while still being thoroughly ignored and treated as an aberration by academia, media, and government—as Muslim persecution of Christians.  If you look at the true history recorded by both Muslims and Christians during the Medieval era—one Muslim historian tells of how one caliph destroyed 30,000 churches—you will see that the persecution and subjugation of Christians is an ironclad fact of history.</p>
<p>Today, not only do we see Christians persecuted from one end of the Islamic world to the other, but we see the same exact patterns of persecution that Christians experienced centuries ago, including hostility for and restrictions on churches, hostility for the crucifix and other Christian symbols and icons, restrictions on Christian worship and freedom.  (I discuss this in more depth <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/western-ignorance-of-the-conditions-of-omar/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">here</span></a> and <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/the-existential-elephant-in-the-christian-persecution-room/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">here</span></a>.)  As for academia and media, they reject modern day persecution of Christians for a plethora of reasons—not least because they tend to be ideologically anti-Christian—but primarily because it contradicts their entire narrative, specifically the notion that, far from being persecuted, Christians themselves are the most intolerant groups, and that Muslims are “misunderstood others” who have been oppressed by the West.</p>
<p>These themes are today so predominant in the West that few can believe they are almost entirely fabricated—but so they are, according to both history and current events, both of which are naturally suppressed or distorted by academia and media in the interest of keeping their ideologically-charged narrative alive.</p>
<p><strong>6. In her book, <i>Tenth Parallel</i>, Eliza Griswold writes that religion becomes means of political emancipation, especially between the equator and the tenth parallel, where Christianity and Islam meet. So perhaps it is not about spirituality but power?</strong></p>
<p>Raymond Ibrahim: Again, one need only turn to history, followed by doctrine, to see that mainstream Islam has always been about power.  Its founder and prophet, Muhammad, was a warlord, who went on caravan raids and incited his followers to attack and plunder other tribes that rejected his “prophecy,” seizing their property and women and children—and all in the context of “God told me so.”  After his death, his followers did the same, giving people three choices: be part of their “team” by converting, or else keep their religious beliefs, but pay tribute and live as third class subjects, or else die.  In this context, and over the course of several centuries of jihadi conquest, the Islamic world was forged.</p>
<p>All this is well justified by the Koran and Islamic Sharia.  Compare and contrast this with Christianity’s founder, Jesus Christ: far from a warlord, he preached mercy, peace, and spirituality.  And that’s one of the problems: Westerners are so well acquainted with Christianity that they tend to project its approach to Islam—naively thinking that all religions must be the same, primarily spiritual, not concerned with the temporal.  But Islam is immensely concerned with the temporal—with power.</p>
<p><strong>7. You have written about conceptual failures dominating the Western discourse on Islam. What are the main fallacies and why are they dangerous?</strong></p>
<p>Raymond Ibrahim: Along with the aforementioned fallacy of projecting Christian/Western worldviews onto a distinctly different religion/civilization like Islam, secular Westerners almost always try to understand Islam through secular and materialistic paradigms—the only paradigms they themselves are familiar with.  Thus the mainstream interpretation in the West is that “radical Islam” is a byproduct of various sorts of material discontent (economic, political, social) and has little to do with the religion itself.</p>
<p>Westerners apparently think this way because the secular, Western experience has been such that people respond with violence primarily when they feel they are politically, economically, or socially oppressed. While true that many non-Western peoples fit into this paradigm, the fact is, the ideologies of Islam have the intrinsic capacity to prompt Muslims to violence and intolerance vis-à-vis the “other,” irrespective of grievances.</p>
<p>Conceptually, then, it must be first understood that many of the problematic ideologies associated with radical Islam trace directly back to Sharia, Islamic law. Jihad as offensive warfare to subjugate “infidels” (non-Muslims); mandated social discrimination against non-Muslim minorities living in Muslim nations (the regulations governing <i>ahl al-dhimma</i>); the obligation to hate non-Muslims—<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/muslim-husbands-must-hate-non-muslim-wives/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">even if a Muslim is married to one</span></a>—all of these are clearly defined aspects that have historically been part of Islam’s worldview and not “open to interpretation.”</p>
<p>For example, the obligation to wage expansionist jihad is as “open to interpretation” as the obligation to perform the Five Pillars of Islam, including praying and fasting. The same textual sources and methods of jurisprudence that have made it clear that prayer and fasting are obligatory, have also made it clear that jihad is also obligatory; the only difference is that, whereas prayer and fasting is an “individual” duty, jihad is understood to be a “communal” duty (a <i>fard kifaya</i>).  All these intricacies must be understood before Westerners can understand Islam on its own terms.</p>
<p><strong>8. One of the most popular views as to the reasons of Islamic terrorism is that it is based on political and economic grievances. The recipe to achieve the peaceful world would be then to remove the factors contributing to poverty or oppression and this way disarm the ‘relative deprivation’ bomb. Do you think it is feasible?</strong></p>
<p>Raymond Ibrahim: Again, as mentioned, political and economic grievances may be a reality; yet it is a distinct fact that, wherever Islam is—including in immensely rich nations like the Gulf nations—violence and intolerance of non-Muslims exist.  For example, Christian persecution around the world today is being committed at the hands of Muslims of all races, languages, cultures, and socio-political circumstances: Muslims from among America’s allies (Saudi Arabia) and its enemies (Iran); Muslims from economically rich nations (Qatar) and from poor nations (Somalia and Yemen); Muslims from “Islamic republic” nations (Afghanistan) and from “moderate” nations (Malaysia and Indonesia); Muslims from nations rescued by America (Kuwait) and Muslims claiming “grievances” against America.  Moreover, much of the underdeveloped world is suffering from economic, political, and social problems—and yet it is the Islamic world where terrorism in the name of God (Allah) is rampant.  One does not hear of, say, disenfranchised Cuban dissidents crashing explosive-laden vehicles into government buildings—while screaming Jesus is great.  Yet sceams of Allah is great in the context of terror attacks are ubiquitous.</p>
<p><strong>9. You have devoted one of your publications to the concept of <i>taqiyya</i>. Can you explain what <i>taqiyya</i> is and why is it important to know it in the West?</strong></p>
<p>Raymond Ibrahim: Although Muslims are exhorted to be truthful, <a href="http://www.meforum.org/2538/taqiyya-islam-rules-of-war"><span style="color: #0433ff;">taqiyya</span></a> is an Islamic doctrine that permits them to deceive non-Muslims, who by nature are deemed enemies.  Some Western scholars and apologists for Islam insist that taqiyya is a very arcane teaching developed by Shi’a and to be used only when their lives are in danger.  In reality, however, taqiyya—as well as its sister teaching, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/tawriya-lying/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">tawriya</span></a>—is used by mainstream Islam (Sunnism) and gives Muslims great freedom to deceive infidels if the deception can be rationalized as a way to help empower Islam over non-Muslims.</p>
<p>Normative Islamic teaching is so that, almost anything can be rationalized as permissible—for example “martyrdom operations” (even though suicide is banned by Islam)—as long as they can be perceived as helping empower Islam.  Islamic prophet Muhammad himself permitted deceit, including to one’s wife.  One of the few Arabic language books devoted to the subject, <i>At-Taqiyya fi&#8217;l-Islam</i> (Dissimulation in Islam) makes it clear that <i>taqiyya</i> is hardly limited to Shi‘a dissimulating in fear of persecution. Written by Sami Mukaram, a former Islamic studies professor at the American University of Beirut and author of some twenty-five books on Islam, the opening sentences of the book clearly demonstrate the ubiquity and broad applicability of <i>taqiyya</i>: “<i>Taqiyya</i> is of fundamental importance in Islam. Practically every Islamic sect agrees to it and practices it … We can go so far as to say that the practice of <i>taqiyya </i>is mainstream in Islam, and that those few sects not practicing it diverge from the mainstream … <i>Taqiyya</i> is very prevalent in Islamic politics, especially in the modern era.”</p>
<p><strong>10. Do you have any words of advice to countries like Poland where the influence of Islam is still relatively weak but increasing due to immigration and certain radicalization of indigenous Muslim groups (e.g. Polish Tatars stopped their traditional prayers for Poland which used to be their custom)?</strong></p>
<p>Raymond Ibrahim: My advice is to take heed of what I call “<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/islams-rule-of-numbers-and-the-london-beheading/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Islam’s Rule of Numbers</span></a>,” which is basically the unwavering, statistical fact that, the more Muslims grow in numbers (and thus strength), the more aggressive they become.  In the U.S., for example, where Muslims are <a href="http://religions.pewforum.org/reports"><span style="color: #0433ff;">less than 1% of the population</span></a>, acts of Islamic intolerance are relatively uncommon. Islamic assertiveness is limited to political activism dedicated to portraying Islam as a “religion of peace,” the painting of any and all critics as “Islamophobes,” and sporadic, but clandestine, acts of terror.</p>
<p>In some Western European nations, where Muslims make for much larger minorities—for example, the UK and France—open violence and religious intolerance is common. But because they are still a vulnerable minority, Islamic violence is always placed in the context of “grievances,” a word that, as we have seen, pacifies Westerners.</p>
<p>Where Muslim numbers reach 35-50% of a population, the full-blown jihad is often declared, as in Nigeria, which although is half Christian half Muslim is also one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a Christian.   In short, Islamic aggressiveness is very much a product of Islamic strength in numbers.  I discussed this at length <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/islams-rule-of-numbers-and-the-london-beheading/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">here</span></a>.</p>
<p><strong>11. Inevitably one stumbles upon the ‘so what?’ question. Nobody persecutes Christians in France and churches are not burnt in Germany. It is doubtful that Europe will be washed away with the waves of Islam. To the contrary, it looks like Europe wants to leave religions behind. Would you not say so?</strong></p>
<p>Raymond Ibrahim: Much of this view is based on selfishness, of the modern West’s egoistic and highly individualistic worldview.  What such people are really saying is that, by and large, if nothing changes and people remain indifferent, they themselves and their generation will go through life fine without much worry from the Islamic question.  But this position also shows absolute indifference to future generations and the world they will inherit.  In short, yes, most Europeans today may not personally suffer from Islam.  But they are opening the floodgates wide to the potential suffering of their descendants.</p>
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<p>This week&#8217;s special guest on <em>The Glazov Gang</em> was <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/obamas-brother-muslim-brotherhood-leader/">Raymond Ibrahim</a>, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, a Middle East and Islam specialist, and the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1621570258/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1621570258&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=uhurnetw-20"><em>Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians </em></a>(2013) and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Qaeda-Reader-Essential-Terrorist-Organization/dp/076792262X/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1381779501&amp;sr=1-2"><em>The Al Qaeda Reader </em></a>(2007).</p>
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		<title>Raymond Ibrahim on ISIS&#8217;s Islamic Inspirations &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2014 04:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shillman Journalism Fellow points to the Islamic roots of the Islamic killing fields. ]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s special guest on <em>The Glazov Gang</em> was <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/obamas-brother-muslim-brotherhood-leader/">Raymond Ibrahim</a>, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, a Middle East and Islam specialist, and the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1621570258/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1621570258&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=uhurnetw-20"><em>Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians </em></a>(2013) and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Qaeda-Reader-Essential-Terrorist-Organization/dp/076792262X/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1381779501&amp;sr=1-2"><em>The Al Qaeda Reader </em></a>(2007).</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">He joined the Gang to discuss <em><span id="eow-title" class="watch-title long-title " dir="ltr" title="The Glazov Gang-Raymond Ibrahim on ISIS's Islamic Inspirations.">ISIS&#8217;s Islamic Inspirations, </span></em><span id="eow-title" class="watch-title long-title " dir="ltr" title="The Glazov Gang-Raymond Ibrahim on ISIS's Islamic Inspirations.">explaining how the jiha</span><span id="eow-title" class="watch-title long-title " dir="ltr" title="The Glazov Gang-Raymond Ibrahim on ISIS's Islamic Inspirations.">dist terror we see in Iraq today, and throughout the world, is founded on Islamic theology. Raymond also discussed </span><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/frontpagemag-com/video-jamie-glazov-discusses-his-battle-on-hannity-against-the-unholy-alliance/">Jamie’s Battle on Hannity against the Unholy Alliance</a>, Jihad Denial, Obama’s Enabling of Jihad, Jihadi Foreign Travelers, and much, much more:</p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss this week&#8217;s second episode with<strong> Daniel Greenfield</strong>, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center who writes the blog, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/the-point/">The Point</a>, at Frontpagemag.com.</p>
<p>Daniel discussed <em>The Invasion on Our Southern Border, </em>unveiling the horror of Obama’s border disaster. <span class="userContent">He also discussed Israel vs. Hamas, Obama&#8217;s Iraq Throwaway, Hillary&#8217;s Rape Defense Lies, and much, much more:</span></p>
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		<title>Raymond Ibrahim on the 700 Club: Christians as Persona Non Grata</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2014 04:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Freedom Center's Shillman Fellow unveils Christians' horrifying suffering in the Muslim world.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ca1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-235061" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ca1.jpg" alt="ca" width="183" height="276" /></a>People worldwide embrace Christianity more than any other religion, and Christians are the most persecuted. Mideast expert Raymond Ibrahim, a Shillman Fellow at the Center, warns on The 700 Club that such persecution happens most often in the Muslim world.</p>
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		<title>Raymond Ibrahim Discusses Christian Persecution with Ex-Muslim Woman</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2014 04:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A woman who fled Turkey and an abusive Muslim husband helps gives context to "Crucified Again."]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/cr2.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-226412" alt="cr" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/cr2.jpg" width="183" height="276" /></a>Raymond Ibrahim, a Shillman Fellow at the Center, recently appeared on “Embracing New Life,” a satellite television show hosted by <a href="http://www.isikabla.com/index.php/en/about/isik-abla">Isik Abla</a>, a woman who fled Turkey and Islam and converted to Christianity.  Ibrahim’s book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1621570258/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1621570258&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=uhurnetw-20"><i>Crucified Again</i></a>, and the phenomenon of Muslim persecution of Christians were the primary topics of discussion in the half-hour episode:</p>
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		<title>Video: Raymond Ibrahim on Islam, Dictators, and Christian Persecution</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2014 04:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Freedom Center's Shillman Fellow appears on New Zealand’s "Shine TV."]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/RaymondIbrahim.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-224046" alt="RaymondIbrahim" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/RaymondIbrahim.jpg" width="248" height="144" /></a>Raymond Ibrahim, a Shillman Fellow at the Center, was recently interviewed on New Zealand’s Shine TV, a Christian station.  The ten-minute interview with host Allen Lee focuses on a wide range of topics, including Arab dictators versus Islamists and the phenomenon, historic and modern, of Christian persecution.</p>
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		<title>The Mideast Test &#8212; on The Glazov Gang at the West Coast Retreat in Palos Verdes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2014 04:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caroline Glick, Robert Spencer and Raymond Ibrahim grapple with the threats emanating from the Islamic Middle East.]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;">This week&#8217;s special episode of <strong>The Glazov Gang</strong> was filmed at<b> </b>David Horowitz&#8217;s West Coast Retreat held at the Terranea Resort in Palos Verdes, California, from March 21-23, 2014.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The panel, titled <strong>The Mideast Test</strong>, was joined by:</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong> Caroline Glick</strong>, the senior contributing editor to the <i>Jerusalem Post </i>who is the author of the new book,<a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Israeli-Solution-One-State-Middle/dp/0385348061"><i> </i><i>The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East</i>.</a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Robert Spencer, </strong>the director of Jihad Watch who is the author of an upcoming book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Arab-Winter-Comes-America-Truth/dp/1621572048/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1395903767&amp;sr=1-1-fkmr0&amp;keywords=Arab+Winter+Comes+to+America%3A+The+Truth+About+the+War+We%E2%80%99re+In."><em>Arab Winter Comes to America: The Truth About the War We’re In.</em></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">and<br />
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<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Raymond Ibrahim, </strong>a Shillman Fellow at the Freedom Center who is the author of his recent book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Crucified-Again-Exposing-Islams-Christians/dp/1621570258/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1395903800&amp;sr=1-1-fkmr0&amp;keywords=Crucified+Again%3A+Exposing+Islam%E2%80%99s+New+War+on+Christians%2C+published+by+Regnery."><em>Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians, </em><em>published by Regnery.</em></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The panelists discussed their books and how to best confront the threats emanating from the Islamic Middle East:</p>
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<p><em>Don&#8217;t miss this week&#8217;s second <strong>Glazov Gang</strong> episode with <strong>Walid Shoebat</strong> on <strong>Islamic Human Slaughterhouses for Christians</strong>:</em></p>
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		<title>Raymond Ibrahim Discusses Why ‘Moderate Islam’ Is an Oxymoron</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2014 04:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Raymond Ibrahim’s recent article, “<a title="" href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/raymond-ibrahim/why-moderate-islam-is-an-oxymoron/" target="_blank">Why Moderate Islam Is an Oxymoron</a>,” has provoked controversy and many responses, including from <a title="" href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/374539/moderate-islam-possible-daniel-pipes" target="_blank">Daniel Pipes on NRO</a>, who believes in the possibility of Islam’s reform.  Earlier, Ibrahim—a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center—discussed the topic of his article on CBN News. It follows:</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Don&#8217;t miss Raymond Ibrahim on <em>The Glazov Gang</em> discussing his book, <em>Crucified Again</em>:</strong></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/734546207001_2817207074001_VIDEO-STILL-A08RAY-110713-MP4-H-20-87-897.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-220274" alt="734546207001_2817207074001_VIDEO-STILL-A08RAY-110713-MP4-H-20-87-897" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/734546207001_2817207074001_VIDEO-STILL-A08RAY-110713-MP4-H-20-87-897.jpg" width="317" height="231" /></a>Last November, Raymond Ibrahim, a Shillman Fellow at the DHFC, was interviewed by Egyptian reporter Sherif Awad.  The interview appeared in several Egyptian magazines and websites, as well as American ones, such as the </i><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://yonkerstribune.typepad.com/files/click-to-read-the-westchester-guardian---december-26-2013-edition.pdf"><i>Westchester Guardian</i></a><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">, under the title, “The Past and the Future: Egyptian-American Author Raymond Ibrahim Analyzes Fundamentalism.”  The interview follows:</i></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">Awad</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: Can you tell us about your family and their profession and how and why they decided to migrate to the US? Tell us about your childhood and the intercultural elements that shaped it until you decided to select your profession.</span></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">Ibrahim</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: My father and mother, both Copts, one from Cairo the other Alexandria, left Egypt in the late 1960s for America, where I was born.  They left Egypt for a better life.  I grew up speaking both Arabic and English and visited Egypt with my parents often when I was young.  It was natural, then, for me formally to study the region, its languages (primarily Arabic, which I already spoke), its history and conflicts, in college.  Growing up in Egypt in the 1940s-1960s, my parents experienced little by way of direct persecution, but they did experience religious discrimination, and that was one of the reasons they came to America, for better opportunities. </span></p>
<p><b>Awad</b>: In regards to your MA thesis and book about the <i>Battle of Yarmuk</i>, can you compare its events to the happenings that led to the ending of Islamic rule in Andalusia? Do you consider researching the Islamic empire in Andalusia? About the Crusades?</p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">Ibrahim</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: Yes, I am very interested in early and medieval Islamic history, especially military history vis-à-vis Christendom.  Not only are there parallels between those various battles and encounters, but indeed, the patterns continue to this very day.  Most in the West are wholly unaware that to Islamist groups like al-Qaeda, they see the conflict as a continuum of history—as jihadis (</span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">mujahidin</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">) fighting infidel “crusaders.”  This is precisely why I have an interest in the long history of the conflict—most of which is </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/surreal-and-suicidal-modern-western-histories-of-islam/">concealed from people in the West</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> by the forces of “political correctness,” which predominate in the classrooms, the government, and the media.</span></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">Awad</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: You researched al-Qaeda’s early history but I want to ask about 9/11 and how far al-Qaeda was involved, because many conspiracy theorists claim that certain US entities have something to do with those events.</span></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">Ibrahim</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: Well, of course, conspiracy theorists say what they say.  And for my part, I can’t prove anything; we work with the information we are given, ultimately.  For example, we were told that Osama bin Laden was killed; but others say he wasn’t.  And no one can really </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">prove</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> either position (since his body was purportedly and hurriedly dropped in the ocean).  So, while I do not necessarily discount what are sneeringly dismissed as “conspiracy theories,” in this profession, one must articulate one’s position within the reasonable bounds of what is collectively deemed “truth.”</span></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">Awad</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: In your book </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1621570258/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1621570258&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=uhurnetw-20"><i>Crucified Again</i></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, you shed light on the troubles faced by the Christian minorities across the Arab world. It was followed by new articles about the attack on the church of Waraq neighborhood in Cairo (which is next to my house in KitKat by the way). Do you differentiate between tolerance and fundamentalism in Islam or do you think that Islam is broadly violent right now?</span></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">Ibrahim</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: This is a good, important, and ultimately complicated question.  To be brief: I always distinguish between Muslims, the humans, and Islam, the religion.  Muslims, like all humans, are free agents who are capable of doing anything; they, like all people, can be tolerant or they can be intolerant.  Likewise, they, like all peoples of all religions, can interpret their religion anyway they want (or simply ignore its tenets).  That said, when it comes to the actual </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">religion of Islam</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, it is inaccurate to describe it as “tolerant” of non-Muslims—certainly not by modern, 21</span><sup style="line-height: 1.5em;">st</sup><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> century standards.  Plain and simple, Islam teaches that non-Muslims are inferior to Muslims.  Quran 9:29 calls on Muslims to subjugate the People of the Book (</span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">ahl al-kitab</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">), until they pay jizya while feeling humiliated.  The prophet of Islam commanded Muslims not to greet non-Muslims and to push them to the side of the road.  One can go on and on with examples (see my book </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Crucified Again</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> for many more with complete documentation).  Ultimately, this suggests that the pious Muslim who tries to follow the Sharia will be more intolerant of non-Muslims than the casual or “cultural” Muslim—and both types exist.</span></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">Awad</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: How do you see the rise and fall of ex-president Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in Egypt? Do you think Egypt will be under more terrorist attacks from their supporters in the future? How do you see Egypt in the near future? </span></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">Ibrahim</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: Again, good and complicated question.  I actually think it was good that Morsi won elections and that the Brotherhood was temporarily empowered.  Because finally, the Egyptian people experienced what it would be like under </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">ikhwani</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> [Brotherhood] rule.  And the result of that was the June 30 Revolution—millions of Egyptians protesting in the streets.  So the good news is that Egyptians now know exactly who the Brotherhood is.  On the other hand, the Brotherhood still has supporters in Egypt, and more importantly, abroad—U.S., Qatar, Turkey, etc.  So it is likely that they will still try to undermine Egypt, whether through terrorism or political maneuvers from their supporters.  But overall I believe that Egypt’s experiences under the Brotherhood, and now after their ousting, have opened many eyes, thus ultimately weakening the Brotherhood’s influence.</span></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">Awad</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: In </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/exposed-muslim-brotherhood-operatives-in-the-u-s/">a recent article</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, you quoted the report published in </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">al-Watan</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> newspaper about Muslim Brotherhood in the US. Do you think MB have influences on Obama&#8217;s administration?</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Yes, I do.  It is well known that several people who advise or associate with Obama, the White House, and in fact the entire U.S. government are somehow or other associated with the Muslim Brotherhood.  Moreover, since the June 30 Revolution, we have seen, repeatedly, how the Obama administration and U.S. leadership—including Anne Patterson, John McCain, and Lindsay Graham—have intervened on behalf of the Brotherhood.</span></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2013 04:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shillman Fellow Raymond Ibrahim sheds disturbing light on how Islamists punish dissent in Egypt. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Muslim-Brotherhood121.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-205553" alt="Muslim-Brotherhood121" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Muslim-Brotherhood121-450x325.jpg" width="270" height="195" /></a>This week’s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was joined by <strong>Raymond Ibrahim, </strong>the Freedom Center&#8217;s Shillman Fellow and the author of the new book, &#8220;<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Crucified-Again-Exposing-Islams-Christians/dp/1621570258">Crucified Again: Exposing Islam&#8217;s New War on Christians</a>.&#8221;</p>
<p>Raymond shed light on <em>The Brotherhood&#8217;s Rape Gangs</em>. The discussion occurred within the context of a larger dialogue about Islam&#8217;s new war on Christians, the Brotherhood&#8217;s Church-burning sprees, Obama&#8217;s Enabling of Islam&#8217;s War on Christians<em>, </em>and Egyptians&#8217; anger at Obama.</p>
<p>Raymond also discussed the hypocrisy of Obama&#8217;s call for war against Assad, the Syrian rebels&#8217; plans to annihilate Syria&#8217;s Christians, and the media&#8217;s cover-up of the whole Islamic war against Christians.</p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss the Glazov Gang&#8217;s second episode this week, featuring<strong> Colin Flaherty</strong>, the author of <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1478231645/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=10grebooforme-20&amp;camp=213381&amp;creative=390973&amp;linkCode=as4&amp;creativeASIN=1478231645&amp;adid=1YC86HMN1ABH5Q0JAWWY&amp;&amp;ref-refURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitegirlbleedalot.com%2F" target="_blank">White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence and How the Media Ignore It</a></em>.</p>
<p>Colin discussed the epidemic of black mob violence all over the country and the media&#8217;s cover-up.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Crucified-Again-Cover.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-203717" alt="Crucified-Again-Cover" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Crucified-Again-Cover-232x350.jpg" width="232" height="350" /></a>Raymond Ibrahim’s new book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Crucified-Again-Exposing-Islams-Christians/dp/1621570258"><i>Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians</i></a>, is an essential text — not merely for its thorough and deliberate documentation on the phenomenon of Islamic persecution against Christians from one end of the Muslim world to the other, but primarily for its contribution to our overall understanding of the challenge facing us from Islam. What I mean by this is that Mr. Ibrahim not only collects and collates data, and delivers it in a readable form. But far more importantly, he presents the historical record of Islam’s interaction with Christian communities in such a manner as to give us a corrective to the faulty understanding of Islam many have formed as the result of an historic aberration in recent times.</p>
<p>Here you will find clear definitions of classic Islamic doctrines of <i>jihad</i>, the <i>dhimma</i> contract, the <i>Conditions of Omar</i>, and more. <i>Crucified Again</i> serves very well as a primer for someone wanting to get up to speed on the threat of Radical Islam. But it is much more than an introductory book.</p>
<p>The book’s title is a subtle hook. For many, the eruption of Islamic violence against Christians the last couple of decades, and increasingly these last several years, indeed seems like a <i>new</i> war of Islam against Christians. Even the mainstream media is dropping its guard at times, and occasionally reporting (however haltingly) on the undeniable Muslim attacks against Christians. However, the idea that this might be a resumption of a very <i>old</i> war is literally unthinkable to many, whose knowledge of Islamic history is usually rather limited.</p>
<p>The accumulation of evidence presented by Raymond Ibrahim offers ominous proof that Muslim extremists are relentlessly persecuting Christians, from Morocco in northwest Africa to Nigeria in the Sub-Sahara; from the headline-grabbing church burnings, rapes, murders and forced conversions in Egypt, the Sinai and Syria, through Pakistan and Afghanistan; and from exotic locales like Malaysia and Thailand to the Philippines and Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country. Literally everywhere in the Islamic world, Christians are under mounting pressure and worsening conditions. Safety and coexistence are a thing of the past.</p>
<p>But did a “coexistent past” between Muslims and Christians ever really exist?  This important question is also at the crux of Ibrahim’s presentation.</p>
<p>In fact, there was, for about a century or so, a quasi-peaceful period between Christians and Muslims. Mr. Ibrahim calls this the “Christian Golden Age,” but as he convincingly proves, this quasi-peace was due not to any inherent tolerant strain within Islam itself, but rather to the incontestable dominance (both military and economic) of the Western European “Great Powers” (which also included Tsarist Russia) beginning about 1850, which interrupted centuries of Islamic supremacist tradition. This “Christian Golden Age” was also by no means universal; anti-Christian pogroms and persecutions continued, yet were not as widespread or frequent. (A horrific example of persecution during this period is the <a href="http://facingislam.blogspot.com/2013/04/ravished-armenia-film-for-today.html">Armenian/Orthodox Genocide</a>, which historians agree actually stretched from 1894 to 1922, and resulted in the death of 4 million Christians at the hands of the Turkish Muslims.)</p>
<p>As I have written about also on my blog, the European Great Powers severely constrained the reach and ambitions of the Ottoman Empire, which justly became known as the “Sick Old Man of Europe” as the 19th century advanced. Indeed, it was largely due to Russian intervention that the Serbs and Bulgarians won their independence in the latter half of the 19th century. The Armenians might have had their own nation-state also, had not the British intervened at the end of the Russo-Turkish War. But even without universal independence for all the Christian peoples under rule of the Ottoman Caliphate, the lot of Christians improved greatly due to European pressure on the Turks.</p>
<p>Nineteenth century European strength and self-assuredness also led to a reassessment by Muslims of their traditional cultural and political values. The appeal of the ascendant West, with its prosperity, scientific and medical advancements, and educational opportunities, inspired respect by Muslims and ushered in a secular era in the Islamic world, which largely eclipsed traditional Islam. Thus a dramatic westernization took place within the Islamic world. As Ibrahim notes, “many Muslims emulated Western ways, naturally sloughing off their Islamic identity and mentality and [their] contempt for ‘infidels’.”</p>
<p>Many effects were specific and dramatic. In 1856, under pressure from the Great Powers, the Ottoman Empire instituted reforms reversing 1200 years of Islamic law, recognizing non-Muslims as equal to Muslims, and granting freedom of religion. Many of the Christian churches today in the Islamic world were built following these reforms, and by the mid-20th century, Christians were generally viewed as equal citizens throughout the Middle East.</p>
<p>However, this “Christian Golden Age” has had an unexpected effect over the last few decades. Because our cultural memory stretches back only so far, many in the West are inclined to believe that the relative Muslim-Christian coexistence as seen from 1850-1950 is the norm, that it has always been thus. So most Westerners struggle with understanding the root causes of contemporary Muslim-on-Christian violence, without being able to consider Islam itself as the primary force. As Mr. Ibrahim writes, “They fail to comprehend that the Golden Age was the historical aberration—an exception to the rule, not the rule.”</p>
<p>Mr. Ibrahim offers an equally rigorous historical analysis of Islam’s dramatic and violent turn away from Western values. There are many lessons for the United States and Europe packed into this aspect of his study, which concentrates on Muslim rejection of the cultural and sexual revolution of the 1960s. Ironically, the “hyper-criticism” of the West by its own leftist intellectuals also helped turn the Muslim world against the United States and Europe, to where the 1970s saw the tipping point of Islam’s anti-Western shift, capped by the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran.</p>
<p>As Muslims have turned back to traditional Islam, Ibrahim continues, they have re-embraced more and more aspects of Islamic life, including the Sharia, and, as we are seeing in epidemic form, increased persecution of Christians:</p>
<blockquote><p>The myopic West cannot comprehend that Muslims have gone back to treating Christians in the exact same ways Muslims treated Christians before Muslims began to emulate the West. That history is all but lost.</p></blockquote>
<p>Raymond Ibrahim warns that the “cognitive dissonance between what the multiculturalists in the West believe about Islam, and what is reported as actually taking place in the Muslim world, is so great that many Westerners simply cannot take in the facts.”  The net result is a systemic blind spot in Western analysis of Islamic motives, purpose, strategy and ultimate goals, which has crippled Western foreign policy in response to Islamic terrorism and the supremacist push of the “Arab Spring” revolutions.</p>
<p>None is so blind as he who will not see, and we have a great deal of work to do to open the eyes of America’s ruling classes, most of whom have been steeped in the leftist, multiculti worldview all their lives. But there is no denying any longer the facts, now reported even on the nightly news. As Mr. Ibrahim summarizes his historical section:</p>
<blockquote><p>The persecution of Christian minorities in Muslim nations is among the most visible aspects of resurgent Islam. Nowhere does Islam behave like Islam as it does at home—where it is in power and not in need of pretense. Today, as the Islamic world reclaims its identity, Christians are further demonized as the “main transmitters of Western and modern attitudes.” And the work of eradicating them, which was begun some 1,400 years ago, is now on its way to fulfillment.</p></blockquote>
<p>Towards the end of his book Raymond Ibrahim takes his gloves off, and lays into the compromised elements of academia, the mainstream media and Western government leaders. Fluent in Arabic, he is just the one for the job, as it is Ibrahim himself who has brought to the West many of the stories about Muslim persecution of Christians in the Islamic world, which would have never seen the light of day had he not been monitoring and translating into English reports from Arabic news sources.</p>
<p>Elsewhere, Mr. Ibrahim excoriates slanted reporting in the West, which seems always intent on glossing over Muslim persecution of Christians, or portraying Muslims in the best possible light, often by referring to one-sided attacks on defenseless Christians by armed Muslim mobs as “sectarian clashes” and the like, as if there were two evenly matched groups of equally guilty miscreants. After countless examples of such biased reporting, Ibrahim concludes:</p>
<blockquote><p>Christian persecution is perhaps the most obvious example of a phenomenon the mainstream media wants to ignore out of existence—Islamic supremacism… If the mainstream media were to report honestly on the persecution of Christians under Islam, the obvious implications that Islam is dangerously hostile to <i>all</i> non-Muslims would be inescapable. Hence, journalists develop an instinct—or make a deliberate choice—to ignore or minimize these uncomfortable facts. No wonder so many Americans, including most self-professed Christians, are either totally unaware of the phenomenon or have no idea of its extent or significance.</p></blockquote>
<p>This is precisely why, of all books on Islam, Raymond Ibrahim’s new work <i>Crucified Again</i> is indispensable.  The lessons contained within it are many, and it will bear repeated readings, as well as serving as an essential resource text. Exhaustive documentary of Muslim persecution of Christians, corrective historical analysis, antidote to the poison of a false multicultural narrative perpetuated by academia, the media and government—this is Raymond Ibrahim’s herculean counter assault to the global challenge of an emboldened Islam.  He is striving with the pen to advance a paradigm shift in our epistemology, our very worldview, and the stakes for our civilization couldn’t be higher.</p>
<p>Islamic supremacism is back, in a very big way, and Raymond Ibrahim is at the forefront of Western scholarship in opening our eyes and minds to the crisis now hammering away at our front door.</p>
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<p>Few people realize that we are today living through the largest persecution of Christians in history, worse even than the famous attacks under ancient Roman emperors like Diocletian and Nero. Estimates of the numbers of Christians under assault range from 100-200 million. According to one estimate, a Christian is martyred every five minutes. And most of this persecution is taking place at the hands of Muslims. Of the top fifty countries persecuting Christians, forty-two have either a Muslim majority or have sizeable Muslim populations.</p>
<p>The extent of this disaster, its origins, and the reasons why it has been met with a shrug by most of the Western media are the topics of Raymond Ibrahim’s <i>Crucified Again.</i> Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and an associate fellow of the Middle East Forum. Fluent in Arabic, he has been tracking what he calls “one of the most dramatic stories” of our time in the reports and witnesses that appear in Arabic newspapers, news shows, and websites, but that rarely get translated into English or picked up by the Western press. What he documents in this meticulously researched and clearly argued book is a human rights disaster of monumental proportions.</p>
<p>In <i>Crucified Again</i>, Ibrahim performs two invaluable functions for educating people about the new “Great Persecution,” to use the label of the Roman war against Christians. First, he documents hundreds of specific examples from across the Muslim world. By doing so, he shows the extent of the persecution, and forestalls any claims that it is a marginal problem. Additionally, Ibrahim commemorates the forgotten victims, refusing to allow their suffering to be lost because of the indifference or inattention of the media and government officials.</p>
<p>Second, he provides a cogent explanation for why these attacks are concentrated in Muslim nations. In doing so, he corrects the delusional wishful thinking and apologetic spin that mars much of the current discussion of Islamic-inspired violence.</p>
<p>Ibrahim’s copious reports of violence against Christians range across the whole Muslim world, including countries such as Indonesia, which is frequently characterized as “moderate” and “tolerant.” Such attacks are so frequent because they result not just from the jihadists that some Westerners dismiss as “extremists,” but from mobs of ordinary people, and from government policy and laws that discriminate against Christians. Rather than <i>ad hoc</i> reactions to local grievances, then, these attacks reveal a consistent ideology of hatred and contempt that transcends national, geographical, and ethnic differences.</p>
<p>In Afghanistan, for example, where American blood and treasure liberated Afghans from murderous fanatics, a court order in March 2010 led to the destruction of the last Christian church in that country. In Iraq, also free because of America’s sacrifice, half of the Christians have fled; in 2010, Our Lady of Salvation Church in Baghdad was bombed during mass, with fifty-eight killed and hundreds wounded.</p>
<p>In Kuwait, likewise, the beneficiary of American power, the Kuwait City Municipal Council rejected a permit for building a Greek Catholic church. A few years later, a member of parliament said he would submit a law to prohibit all church construction. A delegation of Kuwaitis was then sent to Saudi Arabia––which legally prohibits any Christian worship–– to consult with the Grand Mufti, the highest authority on Islamic law in the birthplace of Islam, the Arabian Peninsula.</p>
<p>The Mufti announced that it is “necessary to destroy all the churches of the region,” a statement ignored in the West until Ibrahim reported it. Imagine the media’s vehement outrage and condemnation if the Pope in Rome had called for the destruction of all the mosques in Italy. The absence of any Western condemnation or even reaction to the Mufti’s statement was stunning. Is there no limit to our tolerance of Islam?</p>
<p>Moreover, it is in Egypt––yet another beneficiary of American money and support–– that the harassment and murder of Christians are particularly intense. Partly this reflects the large number of Coptic Christians, the some sixteen million descendants of the Egyptian Christians who were conquered by Arab armies in 640 A.D. Since the fall of Mubarak, numerous Coptic churches have been attacked by Muslim mobs. Most significant is the destruction of St. George’s church in Edfu in September 2011. Illustrating the continuity of mob violence with government policy, the chief of Edfu’s intelligence unit was observed directing the mob that destroyed the church. The governor who originally approved the permit to renovate the building went on television to announce that the “Copts made a mistake” in seeking to repair the church, “and had to be punished, and Muslims did nothing but set things right.”</p>
<p>The destruction of St. George’s precipitated a Christian protest against government-sanctioned violence against Christians and their churches in the Cairo suburb of Maspero in October 2011. As Muslim mobs attacked the demonstrators to shouts of “Allahu Akbar” and “kill the infidels,” the soldiers sent to keep order helped the attackers. Snipers fired on demonstrators, and armored vehicles ran over several. Despite the gruesome photographs showing the crushed heads of Copts, the Egyptian military denied the charges, but then claimed that Copts had hijacked the vehicles and ran over their co-religionists.</p>
<p>False media reports of Copts murdering soldiers fed the violence. Twenty-eight Christians were killed and several hundred wounded. In the aftermath, thirty-four Copts were retained, including several who had not even been at the demonstration. Later, two Coptic priests had to stand trial. Meanwhile, despite an abundance of video evidence, the Minister of Justice closed an investigation because of a “lack of identification of the culprits.”</p>
<p>The scope of such persecution, the similarity of the attacks, and the attackers’ motives, despite national and ethnic differences, and the role of government officials in abetting them, all cry out for explanation. Ibrahim clearly lays out the historical and theological roots of Muslim intolerance in the book’s most important chapter, “Lost History.” Contrary to the apologists who attribute these attacks to poverty, political oppression, the legacy of colonialism, or the unresolved Israeli-Arab conflict, Ibrahim shows that intolerance of other religions and the use of violence against them reflects traditional Islamic theology and jurisprudence.</p>
<p>First Ibrahim corrects a misconception of history that has abetted this misunderstanding. During the European colonial presence in the Middle East, oppression of Christians and other religious minorities was proscribed. This was also the period in which many Muslims, recognizing how much more powerful the Europeans were than they, began to emulate the political and social mores and institutions of the colonial powers.</p>
<p>Thus they abolished the discriminatory sharia laws that set out how “dhimmis,” the Christians and Jews living under Muslim authority, were to be treated. In 1856, for example, the Ottomans under pressure from the European powers issued a decree that said non-Muslims should be treated equally and guaranteed freedom of worship. This roughly century-long period of relative tolerance Ibrahim calls the Christian “Golden Age” in the Middle East.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, as Ibrahim writes, the century-long flourishing of Middle Eastern Christians “has created chronological confusions and intellectual pitfalls for Westerners” who take the “hundred-year lull in persecution” as the norm. In fact, that century was an anomaly, and after World War I, traditional Islamic attitudes and doctrines began to reassert themselves, a movement that accelerated in the 1970s. The result is the disappearance of Christianity in the land of its birth. In 1900, twenty percent of the Middle East was Christian. Today, less than two percent is.</p>
<p>Having corrected our distorted historical perspective, Ibrahim then lays out the justifying doctrines of Islam that have made such persecution possible during the fourteen centuries of Muslim encounters with non-Muslims. The foundations can be found in the Koran, which Muslims take to be the words of God. There “infidels” are defined as “they who say Allah is one of three” or “Allah is the Christ, [Jesus] son of Mary”––that is, explicitly Christian. As such, according to the Koran, they must be eliminated or subjugated. The most significant verse that guides Muslim treatment of Christians and Jews commands Muslims to wage war against infidels until they are conquered, pay tribute, and acknowledge their humiliation and submission.</p>
<p>In the seventh century, the second Caliph, Omar bin al-Khattab, promulgated the “Conditions of Omar” that specified in more detail how Christians should be treated. These conditions proscribe building churches or repairing existing ones, performing religious processions in public, exhibiting crosses, praying near Muslims, proselytizing, and preventing conversion to Islam, in addition to rules governing how Christians dress, comport themselves, and treat Muslims.</p>
<p>“If they refuse this,” Omar said, “it is the sword without leniency.” These rules have consistently determined treatment of Christians for fourteen centuries, and Muslims regularly cite violations of these rules as the justifying motives for their attacks. As a Saudi Sheikh said recently in a mosque sermon, “If they [Christians] violate these conditions, they have no protection.” From Morocco to Indonesia, Christians are attacked and murdered because they allegedly have tried to renovate a church, proselytized among Muslims, or blasphemed against Mohammed––all reasons consistent with Koranic injunctions codified in laws and the curricula of school textbooks.</p>
<p>Both Islamic doctrine and history show the continuity of motive behind today’s persecution of Christians. As Ibrahim writes, “The same exact patterns of persecution are evident from one end of the Islamic world to the other––in lands that do not share the same language, race, or culture––<i>that share only Islam</i>.” But received wisdom in the West today denies this obvious truth. The reasons for this attitude of denial would fill another book. As Ibrahim points out, the corruption of history in the academy and in elementary school textbooks have replaced historical truth with various melodramas in which Western colonialists and imperialists have oppressed Muslims.</p>
<p>These and other prejudices have led American media outlets to ignore or distort Islamic-inspired violence, as can be seen in the coverage of the Nigerian jihadist movement Boko Haram. These jihadists have publicly announced their aim of cleansing Nigeria of Christians and establishing sharia law, yet Western media coverage consistently ignores this aim and casts the conflict as a “cycle of violence” in which both sides are equally guilty.</p>
<p>As Ibrahim concludes, even when Western media report on violence against Christians, “they employ an arsenal of semantic games, key phrases, convenient omissions, and moral relativism” to promote the anti-Western narrative that “Muslim violence and intolerance are products of anything and everything––poverty, political and historical grievances, or territorial disputes––except Islam.”</p>
<p>Within the global Muslim community, there is a civil war between those who want to adapt their faith to the modern world, and those who want to wage war in order to recreate a lost past of Muslim dominance. We do the former no favor by indulging Islam’s more unsavory aspects, since those aspects are exactly what need to be changed if Muslims want to enjoy the freedom and prosperity that come from political orders founded on human rights and inclusive tolerance. Raymond Ibrahim’s <i>Crucified Again</i> is an invaluable resource for telling the truth that could promote such change.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2013 04:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><i>Our rights in Egypt, as Christians or converts, are less than the rights of animals. We are deprived of social and civil rights, deprived of our inheritance and left to the fundamentalists to be killed. Nobody bothers to investigate or care about us. – Maher Al-Gohary, Muslim apostate</i></p>
<p>One of the most disturbing consequences of the “Arab Spring,” the tragic misnomer given by the giddy news media to a violent surge of Islamic fundamentalists against despised Western “puppets” such as Libya’s Qaddafi and Egypt’s Mubarak, is an undisguised genocide against Christian communities in those regions. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Crucified-Again-Exposing-Islams-Christians/dp/1621570258/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1367982596&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=crucified+again"><i>Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians</i></a><i>,</i> the new book by the Freedom Center’s Shillman Fellow Raymond Ibrahim, exposes that genocide not so much as a new war but as the renewal of a very old one.</p>
<p>Ibrahim is, as FrontPage readers well know, a Middle East and Islam specialist best-known for <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Qaeda-Reader-Essential-Terrorist-Organization/dp/076792262X/ref=sr_1_1"><i>The Al Qaeda Reader</i></a>. He has appeared in media venues from MSNBC to Reuters to Al Jazeera to Fox News, lectured at universities and before government agencies, and even testified before Congress on the plight of Egypt’s Christian Copts.</p>
<p>“Christians are being persecuted in Muslim countries today,” Ibrahim writes,</p>
<blockquote><p>for the same reasons as in past centuries. And the patterns of persecution – the same motivations, the same actions, and the same horrific results – recur in countries as different as Kenya and Denmark. Those patterns emerge from themes in the Koran, in Islamic theology, in Sharia law, and in Islamic culture.</p></blockquote>
<p>Those patterns lead Ibrahim to the inexorable conclusion which he hammers home throughout the book: “One thing alone accounts for such identical patterns in such otherwise diverse nations: Islam itself – whether the strict application of its Sharia, or the supremacist culture born of it.” Indeed, Ibrahim notes that of the top 50 countries documented for Christian persecution today, 42 are either Muslim-majority nations or have sizeable Muslim populations, and no other factors – economic, political, or ethnic – account for that overwhelming predominance.</p>
<p>After documenting some examples of recent Christian persecution in disparate regions, Ibrahim ties them together thusly:</p>
<blockquote><p>Egypt, Nigeria, Indonesia, and the Philippines have very little in common. These countries do not share the same language, race, or culture. What, then, do they have in common that explains this similar pattern of church attacks during Christian holy days? The answer is Islam.</p></blockquote>
<p>But what about Islam’s vaunted historic reputation for interfaith tolerance? Didn’t President Obama, in his servile Cairo address in 2009, claim that “Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance”? What about the relatively recent “Golden Age” for Christians in the Muslim world – from approximately 1850-1950 – during which they were largely unoppressed and laws governing dhimmis were abolished?</p>
<p>Ibrahim’s argument is that this era was primarily the result of the impact of Western civilization in breaking down fanaticism in Islamic lands. Muslims even began emulating Western ways, “sloughing off their Islamic identity and mentality and the contempt for ‘infidels’ that… is an integral part of that mentality.” That Golden Age, unfortunately, “was the historical aberration,” and what reversed the trend was a fresh contempt for the West’s “new culture of sexual licentiousness, moral relativism, godlessness, and even Western self-hatred that flooded Western societies in the 1960s.” Muslims also fed off “the hyper-criticism of the West and its values by leftist Western intellectuals,” a faction that remains complicit today.</p>
<p>Ibrahim traces the fascinating history and theological origins of Islam’s “innate hostility to Christianity,” which it targets in no small measure because Christianity, the largest religion in the world and Islam’s historical enemy, is a proselytizing faith – which Islam, with its rigid laws against apostasy, blasphemy, and proselytism, cannot abide. Also, Christians historically have embraced martyrdom rather than betray their faith. But he also notes that</p>
<blockquote><p>Christians suffer violence at the hands of Muslims for reasons that go beyond <i>conscious</i> applications of Islamic doctrines. The hostility Sharia engenders toward Christians has permeated the culture, mentality, and worldview of the average Muslim.</p></blockquote>
<p>Ibrahim goes on to catalog a jaw-dropping, relentless litany of examples of forced conversion, attacks on churches and the cross, and savage persecution of Christians throughout the Muslim world, a list broken down by country. He classifies this “climate of hate” into three general categories: harassment by Muslim governments, attacks by Muslim mobs, and attacks by jihadis.</p>
<p>As for why this crisis attracts so little attention, he points to three enormously influential institutions: Western academia, for whitewashing Islam and blaming the West; Western media, for obscuring the persecution; and Western governments for enabling it. They “have all refused to acknowledge what Christians are suffering… in keeping with their reluctance to recognize that Islam itself is the cause of this persecution.” It is this reticence that drives those institutions, for example, to portray “unprovoked Muslim attacks on Christians… as ‘sectarian strife.’” Blurring the line between victim and oppressor, Ibrahim writes, “is a regular tactic of the mainstream media, especially when it comes to reporting on Muslim persecution of Christians.”</p>
<p>Ibrahim rightly points the finger more specifically at the Obama administration, which in both words and actions “has not only ignored Muslim persecution of Christians, but also actually enabled it,” through Obama’s “wholesale support of the ‘Arab Spring.’” He also takes Western Christians themselves to task for buying into the mainstream narrative and for a tendency “to express compassion for anyone and everyone other than fellow Christians.”</p>
<p>“The return of the persecution of Christians under Islam,” Ibrahim concludes, “is the most visible aspect of a larger and more dangerous phenomenon: the return of Islam as a global force.” And we ignore that persecution at our peril.</p>
<p>Even for someone like myself and for FrontPage’s regular readers, who are acutely aware of the resurgent Islamic persecution of Christians in Muslim lands worldwide, <i>Crucified Again</i> is a gripping, must-read eye-opener. [To see FrontPage editor Jamie Glazov’s interview of Raymond Ibrahim about the book, click <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/jamie-glazov/crucified-again-the-islamic-jihad-on-christians-exposed/">here</a>.]</p>
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