Author: Mario Alexis Portella

The siege of Antioch during the First Crusade – ( Photo: Heritage Images/Getty Images) Not too long ago I had a conversation with a millennial who criticized the Crusades carried...

Winston Churchill once said, “Individual Moslems [sic] may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.” Islam and how it...

Hasan talking with his wives and children in England. Polygamous marriages in the West are more frequent than what we may think. (Photo: Channel 4 UK) Many women, especially in...

A couple of months ago, Omar Suleiman, founder and president of the Dallas-based Yaqeen Institute—an organization that describes itself as a resource about Islam—led the invocation at the House of...

Most of us in the West have heard of the kidnapping of 276 female students were from the Government Secondary School in the town of Chibok in Borno State, (northeast)...

The United States of America launched its newest policy last month in the Kingdom of with the hope to bring peace and stability to the Middle East region, specifically between...

Muslims collectively believe, in light of their recent massive migration to the West and a much higher birthrate compared to Westerners, that they may sooner rather than later achieve their...

“Where in the world is the worst place to be a Christian?” — The Guardian Newspaper had asked in a 2018 article on Christian persecution. It goes without say it listed the...

Early this year, a madrassa teacher and an imam of a mosque in Hatia Upazila, Noakhali (Bangladesh) were physically attacked by the Muslim community from allegedly trying to preventing a child marriage of...

“Where in the world is the worst place to be a Christian?” — The Guardian Newspaper had asked in a 2018 article on Christian persecution. It goes without say it listed the...

One of the reasons any a rational human being would disavow the Quran as a divinely revealed text from God is that, notwithstanding the many passages that speak of goodness...

Pope Francis visited Morocco as part of his continual crusade to foster reconciliation between the Catholic Church and Islam. His visit marks the first time a pope has set foot...

We Americans have been overwhelmed by the polemics surrounding Somali-born House Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) for a 2012 Tweet: “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awake the people and...

When I began to write my book Islam: Religion of Peace? — The Violation of Natural Rights and Western Cover-Up a couple of years ago, I became fascinated with a video...

Afghan women are watching with trepidation as the US draws closer to a deal with the Taliban, distressed at the thought of losing any of the hard-earned progress they have...

On his “historic” trip to the Arabian Peninsula this week, the pope declared the sharia-governed United Arab Emirates the ‘homeland of tolerance.’ This could not be any farther from the...

Last week, CIA Director Gina Haspel, FBI Director Christopher Wray and Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee saying — in contradiction to President Trump...

Close to 60,000 thousand Christians have been killed by nomadic Muslims in Nigeria since 2001, according to one of President Donald Trump’s lawyers and chief counsel at the American Center...

Historically the universal caliphate came to an end in 1924 when Mustafa Kemal Atatürk secularized Turkey. Notwithstanding the ominous and pretentious claim of the Islamic State in 2014, there is in...

Last summer, Pope Francis celebrated a special mass in St. Peter’s Basilica for migrants and those who care about them. He denounced the “sterile hypocrisy” of those who turn a...

The Islamic understanding of natural law is of prime importance, for it is seen as a hidden presence within the sharia. Nature is intertwined with human purpose, as Allah‘s regent...

The US government has recently expressed its satisfaction with the military victory reported on ISIS in Iraq and Syria, despite the militants maintaining a small presence in the Syrian territory....

NOV 30, 2018 4:26 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER Pope Francis is not going to be happy about this. Here is an English version of an article from the Italian newspaper...

In today’s Western society many, if not most, believe that Christians and Muslims both “adore the one and merciful God.” In fact, the Declaration on the Relation of the Church...

When immigrants arrived to the United States of America via New York Harbor between the latter half of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th centuries, they were greeted...

The concept of jihad, as explained in the Encyclopedia of Islam (1960-1986), stems from the fundamental principle of Islam’s universality: “this religion, along with the temporal power which it implies,...