Raymond Ibrahim

Raymond Ibrahim (* 1973 ) is an American translator, author and columnist . He focuses on Arabic history and language as well as current developments in this regard. He is the author of the books Crucified Again: Exposing Islam's New War on Christians (Regnery, 2013) and The Al Qaeda Reader (Doubleday, 2007).

Live and act

Ibrahim was born in the United States to Coptic immigrants from Egypt . He is fluent in Arabic and English .

Ibrahim studied at California State University, Fresno , where he wrote his master's thesis under Victor Davis Hanson , on an early military encounter between Islam and Byzantium , citing Arabic and Greek sources. Ibrahim also took courses on Arabic studies at Georgetown University and is now working on his PhD on Medieval Islamic History at the Catholic University of America .

Career

Ibrahim was formerly Vice Director of the Middle East Forum . He is supported by the David Horowitz Freedom Center .

While Ibrahim was writing his thesis, in which jihad was discussed in the early Islamic conquests, the terrorist attacks occurred on September 11, 2001 . Since then he has increasingly occupied himself with Al-Qaeda , Islamism and Al Jazeera .

Ibrahim is the editor and translator of The Al Qaeda Reader , which he published after finding untranslated Arabic documents from Al Qaeda at the time. According to Ibrahim, this document proves that the war of radical Islam against the West is not being waged because of undesirable political developments, but is an existential danger for all times and countries that is deeply rooted in faith.

Ibrahim is a commentator for FrontPage Magazine and a contributing journalist for the Christian Broadcasting Network .

reception

An article that Ibrahim wrote about Taqiyya in Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst magazine and that was published on September 26, 2008, was occasionally described as well researched, with correct facts, but ultimately misleading . He responded to these allegations with Taqiyya Revisited: A Response to the Critics. His book The Al Qaeda Reader was reviewed by Reza Aslan in Slate magazine . The Handelsblatt , FAZ and Tagesspiegel also reported on the publication of the book .

Publications

• The Al Qaeda Reader (editor and translator), Doubleday , 2007, ISBN 978-0-385-51655-6
• "How Taqiyya Alter Islam's Rules of War" , Middle East Quarterly , Winter 2010, pp. 3-13
• "Are Judaism and Christianity as Violent as Islam?" , Middle East Quarterly , Summer 2009, pp. 3-12
• "An Analysis of Al-Qa'ida's Worldview: Reciprocal Treatment or Religious Obligation" , Middle East Review of International Affairs , Vol 12, No.. September 3, 2008
• "Studying the Islamic Way of War" , National Review , September 11, 2008
• "Islam's Doctrines of Deception" , Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst , The Middle East Forum, September 26, 2008
• "Jesus and Mohammad, Version 2.0" , National Review , September 10, 2007
• "The Two Faces of Al Qaeda" , The Chronicle of Higher Education , Vol. 54, Issue 4, p. B3, September 21, 2007
• "Islam gets concessions; Infidels get conquered" , Los Angeles Times , December 5, 2006
• "Terrorists who love but ideology lives" , Harvard University , February 1, 2008
• "How dare you? The supremacist nature of Muslim 'grievances'" , Jerusalem Post , October 7, 2013
• "Extremism fuels abuse of Christians in Mideast" , CNN , July 3, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ^ After Words with Raymond Ibrahim C-SPAN
2. ↑ ^{a b} In Their Own Words; Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri explain their bloody actions. The Washington Post , October 7, 2007.
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4. ^ Raymond Ibrahim (video) Dennis Prager
5. ↑ Ibrahim: Islam Unveiled
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8. ↑ Interpreting Taqiyya: Special Report. Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst . IHS Jane’s Information Group . November 12, 2008.
9. ↑ http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/taqiyya-revisited-a-response-to-the-critics/
10. ↑ Why Do They Hate Us?
11. ↑ Bertelsmann subsidiary publishes Al-Qaeda book
12. ↑ Al Qaeda Reader
13. ↑ A reading book by Osama bin Laden

Web links

• Raymond Ibrahim website
• Publications on National Review
• Publications on Fox News
• Publications on The American Spectator
• Publications on The General Journal
• Publications on Christian Broadcasting Network