Raymond Ibrahim
ARTICLES BY: Raymond Ibrahim
Death for Preaching Christ in ‘Liberated’ Libya
Four foreign Christians—including one who holds American-Swedish citizenship—were arrested days ago in Libya. According to the Guardian, their crime is arousing "suspicion of being missionaries and...
Islamic Assassination: Silencing Freedom Fighters
Tunisia, one of the most secular Arab countries in modern times—and the first country to experience the "Arab Spring"—was also recently the first Arab country...
The Rape Epidemic in Morsi’s Egypt
Since the "Arab Spring" came to Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood assumed power, sexual harassment, abuse, and rape of women has skyrocketed. This graph, which shows...
Saudi Hypocrisy at Its Best
Few things offer surreal experiences as when Islam and the West interact—when 7th century primordialism encounters 21st century relativism. Consider the issue of "interfaith dialogue."...
Egypt, 2012: The Year In Fatwas
In previous decades in Egypt, the fatwas, or legal decrees issued by learned Muslims and based on Sharia law, revolved around questions like...
What’s Happening to Yemen’s Forgotten Christians
When one thinks of Yemen—the impoverished Arab country that begat Osama bin Laden and is cushioned between Saudi Arabia and Somalia, two of...
A ‘Sudanese Genocide’ in Egypt?
The current tensions in Egypt between the Muslim Brotherhood-led government and a fragmented populace that includes large segments of people who oppose the Islamization of...
An Ode To ‘Islamic Truth’
Inasmuch as Salafis are vile and violent, so too must they be credited with being refreshingly frank and honest, especially in comparison with...
The Muslim Brotherhood’s Winning Argument
In the ongoing conflict between those Egyptians who strongly oppose a Sharia-based constitution—moderates, secularists, non-Muslim minorities—and those who are strongly pushing for it, Islamists are...
3,000 Foreign Jihadis to Terrorize Egyptian Opposition?
The title of a recent Al Khabar News report declares: "Morsi summons 3,000 jihadis from Afghanistan, Chechnya, Bosnia, Somalia and Iran to be an Islamic army...
Ayman Zawahiri and Egypt: A Trip Through Time
Around 1985, current al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri fled his homeland of Egypt, presumably never to return. From his early beginnings as a teenage leader of...
Militant Muslims Cutting Out Tongues
Recently on Egyptian TV, Dr. Abdullah Badr, an Al Azhar graduate and professor of Islamic exegesis, proclaimed that a new day has arrived, when there...
The World’s Humanitarian Double Standard
The world's double standards concerning which peoples qualify as oppressed and deserving of help are staggering. Two recent stories illustrate this point: First, a report exposed, in...
The Islamic Schoolyard-Bully and Obama’s America
In an era of high education and specialty degrees—from psychology to political science—perhaps it was inevitable for simple common sense to fall by the wayside....
