Author: Mario Alexis Portella

Early this month French President Emmanuel Macron signed a decree authorizing the Arabic language and Islamic culture to be taught in schools as part of their new curriculum. In like...

The chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the United States House of Representatives, Rep. Eliot L. Engel, said on Monday that the U.S. State Department inspector general (IG) Steve...

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...

This Thursday U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad said that he participated in a “lengthy” meeting with Taliban leaders as the militant group and Afghan government concerns mount that...

In recent months the world has been focused on the coronavirus pandemic given that this has been the central theme reported by the mainstream media. But there is another “pandemic”...

A place of worship in Syracuse, New York, that had been a Roman Catholic church for over a century became a mosque almost six years ago—the Mosque of Jesus, Son...

Saudi Arabia announced it abolished flogging as a form of punishment. The country’s supreme court said on Saturday that the “human rights advances” are part of reforms pushed by King Salman...

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he has instructed the U.S. Navy to “shoot down and destroy” any Iranian gunboats harassing American ships, in the wake of a tense encounter in the...

Al-Jazeera—Qatari state-funded broadcaster in the capital city of Doha—reported this week that according to a tally combined by Tal’at, an independent political feminist movement, eleven Palestinian women have been killed as a result...

Up until thirty years ago, the popes have been the most consistent, most implacable and most effective defenders against the Islamic onslaught. The change of direction from the post Vatican II popes...

The Associated Press reported on Monday of dozens of police reports in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan of sexual harassment, rape and physical abuse by Islamic clerics teaching in madrassas (religious...

This past week marked the fifth anniversary of the start of the U.S.-backed Saudi military intervention in Yemen. Code-named Operation Decisive Storm, the Saudi-led coalition’s offensive operations has created the...

An interview with Father Mario Alexis Portella, author of a book that examines what Muslims believe and how Islam is portrayed in the West by Edward Pentin – National Catholic Reporter...

British journalist Robert Fisk once stated, “The story of the Armenian genocide is one of almost unrelieved horror at the hands of Turkish soldiers and policemen who enthusiastically carried out...

Juveniles about to be hung in Iran. – (Photo: irannewsupdate.com) International human rights law has long prohibited the use of the death penalty against people who were younger than age...

ISIS leader and self-styled calif Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead. During a raid by U.S. Special Operations forces on a compound in northern Syria where Baghdadi was hiding out, Baghdadi...

Many in the West, whether willfully or not, continue to insist that Islam can coexist in a democratic society, thereby seeing any reasonable disagreement as xenophobic. Perhaps it is because to...

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,...