Author: Mario Alexis Portella

As the United States women’s national soccer team (USWNT) geared up to face the Netherlands in a friendly on Friday, their anthem jackets were emboldened with a message: Black Lives...

This year’s G20 summit—made up of the European Union and 19 countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South...

The presidential victory of Joe Biden — contested by the incumbent Donald Trump — is expected to alter U.S. policy in the Middle East. The question remains, with respect to political...

President Donald Trump, with two months left in office, last week during an Oval Office meeting with his top national security aides, including Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State...

Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan resigned following a deal last week that ended fierce fighting with Islamic Azeri forces over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. In what has been nothing...

The United Nations has once again warned of millions of men, women and children in war-torn Yemen are facing famine as it issued yet another appeal for more money and...

Last month the Western world was in shock when it leaned of the beheadings of carried out by Islamists in both Paris and Nice, France. While those tragic events got...

On Sunday Azeri President Ilham Aliyev said on Sunday his country’s forces had taken Shusha, the second-largest city in the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave. Armenian officials immediately denied the claim.  Aliyev said November...

This Monday Austria became the latest Western European country to suffer an Islamic terrorist attack. At least five people were killed, including an assailant and 17 others were injured in...

As the Islamic world celebrates the birth of the Prophet Muhammad, jihadists such as Turkish President Recep Erdoğan said: “We, as believers… [need to] make more efforts to introduce the...

Tensions between France and Muslim nations have gotten worse after French President Emmanuel Macron said earlier this month: “Islam is a religion that is in crisis all over the world...

In a move that would certainly add fuel to the fire in the Middle East, The Trump administration is weighing a proposal to brand prominent human rights organizations as “anti-Semitic”...

Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Mosul (Iraq) Najeeb Michaeel Moussa, in a recent interview with stated that “the European Union has undoubtedly lagged behind the European peoples who have courageously mobilized...

On October 2, French President Emmanuel Macron recently stated: “Islam is a religion that is in crisis all over the world today; we are not just seeing this in our...

Finally, a Western leader who is taking on the Islamic threat in his homeland. And who would ever have guessed that it would be French President Emmanuel Macron? Macron has...

On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud in Washington. In a joint-conference, Pompeo said:  “It’s no secret that Iran’s...

On Thursday Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, after taking swipes from President Donald Trump, agreed to release emails from his predecessor Hillary Clinton, saying it was important for “transparency.” Pompeo denied any political...

Last Friday President Donald Trump received a vote of support for his reelection bid from an entity most in his party would reject: the Taliban. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told...

The Vatican officially released Pope Francis’ new encyclical on “human fraternity” Fratelli Tutti (All Brothers) on Sunday — an encyclical, or letter from the pope, is a form of communication...

It has been one week since fighting brokeup between Christian Armenia and the predominantly Islamic Azerbaijan — 85% of Muslims in the country are Shi’ites and 15% Sunnis — both...

Many of us who follow the “non-mainstream media” have become acquainted with the unfortunate persecutions of Christians and religious minorities in the Middle East and in Nigeria at the hands...

U.S. Special Representative for Iran Elliot Abrams confirmed last week that North Korea, for quite some time, has been helping Iran’s quest to become a nuclear weapon state. Abrams, responding...

This past Wednesday Saudi Arabia’s King Salman took aim at Iran during his debut at the annual United Nations meeting of world leaders, calling for a comprehensive solution to contain...

“We’re stuck.” that is how one delegate described the much-acclaimed intra-Afghan peace negotiations between the Taliban and the Afghan government-led delegation in Doha, that kicked  on September 12. The impasse...

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari recently revealed that when he met the U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on April 30, 2018, Trump unequivocally accused him of killing Christians in Nigeria....

Iran has promised to inflict a “decisive response” against the United States for acting like a “bully” to adversaries and allies alike after Washington said it would reimpose UN sanctions —...

The European Parliament recently urged the European Union member states to impose an arms embargo on Saudi Arabia over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and its now five-year genocidal war...

In what was a groundbreaking event on Tuesday at the White House, President Donald Trump presided over the signing of a Middle East agreement between Israel and two Gulf nations,...

A U.S. federal judge directed Saudi Arabia’s government to make 24 current and former officials, including a former ambassador to the United States, available for questioning in litigation claiming it...

September 12 marks the fourteenth anniversary of Pope Benedict XVI’s famous Regensburg address in which he discussed the very nature of man’s understanding of a free conscience, his thirst for...

As the United States is less than two months away from Election Day, it is still stigmatized by the riots and other forms of violence by the anarchist movements that...

A court in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore has sentenced a Christian man to death for having committed “blasphemy,” his lawyer says, in the latest case of Pakistan’s strict...

Saudi Arabia announced today, in what has been dubbed as a “mockery” of a trial, that it convicted eight men charged in the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi — a...

On Thursday the U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions against six companies for their support of a petrochemical firm that does business with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Based in China,...

There are many misconceptions about equality in the Islamic religion, especially on the status between a man and a woman. It is, in fact, worse than the then-“separate but equal”...

While our American homeland since the George Floyd killing has had to deal with riots, looting and killings from right-wing domestic terrorists, such as the Boogaloo movement, as well as...

Last Wednesday local Nigerian news reported that Boko Haram insurgents killed more 75 elderly people in the town of Gwoza in Borno state (northeastern Nigeria). The Nigerian tragedy is one...

Back in 2018, the Clarion Project published an article “First-Hand Report: Why is the World Ignoring This Genocide?” It was based on my first-hand account after my visit to northern...

After President Donald Trump brokered the deal of the 21st century between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the U.S. tried to convince Saudi Arabia that it would be...

Next month will mark nearly two decades since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on our American home front by Islamic jihadists—the U.S. government’s ‘official’ story, most of terrorist who...

Last week the Israeli Middle East Media Research Institute published an article entitled “Articles In Saudi Press Call To Amend Thousands Of Scribal Errors In The Quran, Reexamine Islamic Texts...

Last Thursday Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, speaking on behalf of President Donald Trump, mentioned that the U.S. is initiating the restoration of virtually all UN sanctions on Iran lifted...

It has been nearly two weeks since the explosions occurred at the port of the city of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon—the second explosion was extremely powerful, and caused at...

This Thursday most of the Islamic world was surprised when the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel agreed to establish full diplomatic relations—the deal was brokered by the Trump administration—Trump...

On July 25 the U.S. (and Spanish) soldiers withdrew from the Iraqi Basmaya base, south of the capital, and handed it over to their Iraqi counterparts. Just one day prior...

Many of us have come to know, no thanks to the mainstream media, of the Christian persecutions in the Islamic world—a topic that most leftwing and neoconservative politicians refused to...

While the Trump administration is subtly pulling U.S. troops out of Afghanistan, many, including myself, are concerned as to the would-be state of affairs in the Afghan region if and...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Saudi King Salman al-Saud and President Donald Trump touching the glowing orb of wealth and knowledge in Riyadh, May 2017. (Photo: Rex/Shutterstock) In 2016, then-candidate...

American soldiers in a village about 90 miles northeast of Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 2006. (Photo: Tyler Hicks/The New York Times) Donald Trump, referring to Afghanistan, tweeted in 2013: “We should...

Medics attend to Furja Saleh Mabkhout, 4, at a hospital in Sanaa to which she was rushed after she was injured in an air strike in the northern province of...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that the Istanbul’s—traditionally know as Constantinople—sixth-century basilica church of Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom) that was built by the Emperor Justinian, which became a...

Prince Mohammad bin Salman and Xi Jinping. (Photo: Washington Post) The free world last week witnessed in sadness as Chinese Communist forces stormed into Hong Kong arresting human rights activists,...

Last Wednesday another Nigerian was killed by the Islamist group Boko Haram village in Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State. According to a villager: “We just received the news...

In the latest double-standard measure taken since the George Floyd killing on racial justice was that of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). On June 17, the member-states of...

The Trump administration has escalated discussions to end a decades-old practice of notifying Congress of major arms sales to foreign countries, arguing that lawmakers are preventing the United States from...

Ilyasah Shabazz, the daughter of the late Malcom X, stated on the pro-Islamic al-Jazeera news in a segment A message to Black Lives Matter protesters: Organise: “There are so many people...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...