Raymond Ibrahim

Judith Friedman Rosen Writing Fellow

Raymond Ibrahim, a specialist in Islamic history and doctrine, is the author of Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam (2022); Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West (2018); Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians (2013); and The Al Qaeda Reader (2007). He has appeared on C-SPAN, Al-Jazeera, CNN, NPR, and PBS and has been published by the New York Times Syndicate, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, the Weekly Standard, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Jane’s Islamic Affairs Analyst. Formerly an Arabic linguist at the Library of Congress, Ibrahim guest lectures at universities, briefs governmental agencies, and testifies before Congress. He has been a visiting fellow/scholar at a variety of Institutes—from the Hoover Institution to the National Intelligence University—and is the Judith Friedman Rosen Fellow at the Middle East Forum and the Distinguished Senior Shillman Fellow at the Gatestone Institute.

Articles by this Author
If It Looks Like a Duck, Walks Like a Duck, and Quacks Like a Duck, Then It’s Probably a Duck
Focusing On Issues We Find Offensive but Which Do Not Affect Non-Muslims Creates Confusion Concerning Aspects of Islam That Affect So-Called Infidels
Former Nun Karen Armstrong’s Revisionist History Whitewashes Centuries of Muslim Conquests
If Fake News Is a ‘Threat to Democracy,’ What About Fake History?
White Women Were and Continue to Be Seen as Sexually Promiscuous by Nature — Essentially ‘Provoking’ Muslim Men Into Lusting After and Raping Them
ISIS’s January 2024 Call to Random Violence Explains the Deadly Logic Behind Recent Vehicular Terror Attacks in New Orleans and Germany.
‘We Must Have More Children than the Christians … to Destroy Them Here’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: ‘The West’s Progress, Built on Blood, Tears, Massacres, and Exploitation, Has Temporarily Overtaken the Human-Centered Civilization of the East.’
The Materialistic West Increasingly Only Understands Motives Prompted by Material Needs or Desires
On Oct. 12, Two Coptic Christian Priests Were Forced to Hold the Funeral for Their Father in the Middle of a Public Street
The Incident Had Britons Protesting in the Streets Against the Government’s Unchecked Migration Policies
After Expelling Every Last Crusader from the Holy Land, Saladin’s ‘Retirement Dream’ Was to Invade and Wage Jihad on Christian Europe
The ancient concept of ‘ribat’ is a model for today’s bastions of Islamization and jihad.