The Resumption of the Islamic Futuhat Throughout the World
The Resumption of the Islamic Futuhat Throughout the World By Jacob Thomas 13 September 2018 The Wall Street Journal published on 29 August 2018, an article with this headline: “A...
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A Celebration of Liberty
A Celebration of Liberty By Jacob Thomas Fourth of July 2018 It is fitting on this Fourth of July 2018, that I share the message received from this brave Swiss...
What’s Needed Radical Reforms in Islam
“What’s Needed: Radical Reforms, Not a Revision of Public Discourse” “A Call to Add Marginal Notes to Passages in the Qur’an” (Al-Islahat al-Jidhriyyat, La Tajdid al-Khitab al-Dini) By Jacob Thomas...
AN ALGERIAN MOVIE REVIEW
AN ALGERIAN MOVIE REVIEW Jacob Thomas Prior to the Internet Age, when I needed to learn about conditions and developments in the Arab world, I read newspapers published in Beirut,...
The Myth of the Three Abrahamic Religions
The Myth of the Three Abrahamic Religions By Jacob Thomas 28 November 2017 Nowadays, it has become fashionable to refer to the “The Three Abrahamic Religions,” with respect to Judaism,...
Pope Francis Ignores the True Nature of Islam
Pope Francis Ignores the True Nature of Islam By Jacob Thomas 29 August 2017 “Jihad Never Sleeps” is the title of an article in Crisis Magazine, which is “A...
What’s So Great About the Islamic Caliphate!?
What’s So Great About the Islamic Caliphate!? By Jacob Thomas 28 August 2017 Every now and then, I visit a list of articles I had downloaded and kept in my...
The Closing of the Arab Mind
The Closing of the Arab Mind By Jacob Thomas 8 July 2017 In his book, “ISIS and Islam: Through the Eyes of a Former Muslim,” Brother Rachid wrote that from...
Two Australian Muslim Leaders Debate the Manchester Massare
Two Australian Muslim Leaders Debate the Manchester Attack By Jacob Thomas 31 May 2017 The Swiss weekly website “Antipresse” reported about a debate that took place in Australia, on...
The Agenda of the European Mosques
The Agenda of the European Mosques: “Islamization & Cultural Jihad” 12 May 2017 By Jacob Thomas Mireille Valette is a Swiss journalist and human rights activist. Her blog,...
Turkish Voters in Germany Had no Appreciation for Democracy
Turkish Voters in Germany Had no Appreciation for Democracy 21 April 2017 By Jacob Thomas On Sunday, 16 April 2017, a Constitutional Referendum took place in Turkey about amendments...
A Reformed Islam is the End of Islam
“A Reformed Islam, is the End of Islam” By Jacob Thomas Mireille Valette is a Swiss human rights activist; she is especially concerned about the Islamist threat to Europe....
Does the West Understand Islam?
Does the West Understand Islam? By Jacob Thomas Based on Program # 484 “A Daring Question” of Brother Rachid, co-hosted with Hamed Abdel-Samad, telecast on Satellite TV Station “Al-Hayat”...
Egyptian Christians Forced to Leave the Sinai Peninsula
Egyptian Christians Forced to Leave the Sinai Peninsula Jacob Thomas The largest Christian community in the Arab world lives in Egypt. They are known as Copts, most of them...
The Arab Rationalists’ Struggle to Modernize Islam
The Arab Rationalists’ Struggle to Modernize Islam Jacob Thomas In 2007, a group of Arab intellectuals founded the online journal, Alawan[i] As the 10th Anniversary for the launching of this...
The New World Disorder
The New World Disorder Jacob Thomas What was hailed as the “Arab Spring” in 2011, has turned five years later, into a horrific nightmare impacting the Middle East, and...
“ISIS and Islam: Through the Eyes of a Former Muslim”
Review of Brother Rachid’s Book “ISIS and Islam: Through the Eyes of a Former Muslim” By Jacob Thomas 17 November 2016 A few weeks ago, Iraqi forces began their campaign...
Why Do Western Intellectuals Fail to Understand Islam?
Why Do Western Intellectuals Fail to Understand Islam? By Jacob Thomas 8 November, 2016 Introduction At a time when Muslim migrants have been arriving in great numbers into...
The Steady Rise of Conversions from Islam to Christianity
The Steady Rise of Conversions from Islam to Christianity By Jacob Thomas 2 November, 2016 As we glance at the news media’s coverage of the Islamic World, we are...
A Yemeni’s Pilgrimage to Christianity
A Yemeni’s Pilgrimage to Christianity By Jacob Thomas 28 October, 2016 Satellite TV and the Internet have made tremendous inroads into the Arab World. Some of the telecasts are...
Fifteen Years After 9/11
Fifteen Years After 9/11: Has the West Learned Its Lesson? Jacob Thomas 27 September, 2016 Judging by the way Western political leaders look at Islam and its global challenge fifteen...
Toward A Modern Exegesis of the Qur’an
Toward a Modern Exegesis of the Qur’an By Sa’eed Nasheed, Published by Dar al-Tanweer, Beirut, Lebanon Reviewed by Khaled Ghazal With Analysis & Comments by Jacob Thomas The Moroccan author,...
The Sunni- Shi’ite Divide & the Future
The Sunni- Shi’ite Divide & the Future By Jacob Thomas 22 September, 2016 It is estimated that 90% of the Muslim population of the world (1.6 Billion) belong to Sunni...
US Immigration Law Ignores the True Nature of Islam
US Immigration Law Ignores the True Nature of Islam By Jacob Thomas 21 September, 2016 Throughout the history of immigration to the United States, various pieces of legislation have been...
The Ideological Roots of Radical Islam
On Saturday, 1 August 2015, the Wall Street Journal published an essay by Dr. Richard N. Haass on the Gulf War: “Desert Storm, the Last Classic War. Twenty-five years after...
The Muslims’ Captivity to their Tragic History
Everyone who is following international events can see that dreadful things are taking place in the countries impacted by the Islamic faith. The terror forces making up the ultra-radical Islamist group...
The Complex Nature of Middle Eastern Problems
In the aftermath of World War II, several changes had to be made to the map of the world. For example, the boundaries between Germany and Poland were adjusted, and...
Decapitation in Islamic History
The world in recent days has been shocked to learn of the decapitation of two American journalists and one British aid worker, all of whom had been held captive by...
A Message to the Christians in Mosul: “Islamize, or Pay the Jizya Tax, or Face the Sword”
By Jacob Thomas للمسيحيين في الموصل: الإسلام أو الجزية وإلا حد السيف http://www.elaph.com/Web/News/2014/7/924517.html#sthash.Uy4kDfop.dpuf On Saturday, 19 July, 2014, the widely read online daily Elaph published at 11:33 (GMT) a report...
Demonstrations of Algerians who refuse to Fast during Ramadan
On Monday, the 7th of July, 2014, the French online website, Riposte Laïque, posted a brief commentary by the French human rights activist Christine Tasin, about the demonstrations in the...
The Muslims’ Captivity to their Tragic History
By Jacob Thomas Everyone who is following international events can see that dreadful things are taking place in the countries impacted by the Islamic faith. When I began writing this...
Lessons We Should Have Learned from the Communist Infiltration of the West to Face the Global Islamic Threat
“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” – George Santayana 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the Great War; lectures and books have appeared on a...
The Eastern Christians – The Exact Prefiguration of What’s Awaiting Us
Chrétiens d’Orient : l’exacte préfiguration de ce qui nous attend http://www.printfriendly.com/print?url=http://ripostelaique.com/chretiens-dorient-lexacte-prefiguration-de-ce-qui-nous-attend.html Translation and Introduction by Jacob Thomas Near the end of March, radical Jihadists in Syria attacked Kessab, a town...
Was the Success of the National Front a Coup to Stop the Islamization of France?
La percée du FN, coup d’arrêt à l’islamisation de la France ? Salem Benammar Riposte Laïque http://ripostelaique.com/la-percee-du-fn-coup-darret-a-lislamisation-de-la-france.html Translation and Comments by Jacob Thomas The results of the recently-held municipal elections...
The Intolerable Life of Dhimmis In 19th Century Damascus
Source My interest in the life of Dhimmis (Christians and Jews) under Islam goes back to my childhood. I am an Eastern Christian from the Levant and I was a...
“Radical Islam Is the True Islam, Moderate Islam is Pseudo-Islam”
“Radical Islam Is the True Islam, Moderate Islam is Pseudo-Islam” الراديكاليون”، دعوة إلى الإسلام الحق وزيف الإسلام المعتدل” http://www.alawan.org/auteur1371.html By Jacob Thomas When anyone in the West unveils the true...
Jacques Ellul on the Impossibility of Integrating Muslims in Western Societies
On Sunday, 2 March, 2014, the French Website Riposte Laïque, published excerpts from the Journal Réforme where the late French Intellectual and academic, Jacques Ellul had commented in 1994, on the...
Marches & Demonstrations in Paris Demanding a Referendum on Immigration
According to a report of Riposte Laique, the French website dedicated to stopping the gradual Islamization of France and Europe, Daniel Pipes will be present at the manifestations to be...
A Salute to a Brave German Woman’s Stand against the Islamization of her country!
Riposte Laïque is a French online daily that alerts the public about the gradual Islamization of France and Europe. On Tuesday, 11 February, 2014, it posted a report about Heidi...
News from Tripoli (Lebanon) and Malaysia Illustrate the tolerance of Islam
Fire Destroys a Historic Library in Tripoli, Lebanon Saturday, 4 January, 2014 11:38 GMT According to BBC Arabic Television, a historic Christian Library in Tripoli, Lebanon, was set on fire...
As 2013 Is Winding Down, Islam is on the Rampage
12/27/2013 Having just celebrated Christmas, the words of the Angels who announced the birth of Jesus Christ to the Shepherds in Bethlehem are still ringing in my ears: “Glory to...
Tunisian Society in a State of Shock: The Awful Consequences of the “Fornication Jihad” – Young Tunisian Women Return Pregnant & Infected
10/01/2013 Riposte Laïque is a French organization dedicated to preserve the secular nature of the Public Square in France, and seeks to stop the steady growth of Islamism. It publishes...
The Death of Rawan – An Eight-Year Old Yemeni Bride
9/17/2013 http://www.bbc.co.uk/arabic/middleeast/2013/09/130911_yemen_child_mariage.shtml It has been my custom since the beginning of the “Arab Spring,” to visit the Arabic-language division of the British Broadcasting Corporation, for the latest news coming from...
More Islamic Propaganda on PBS Stations: LIFE OF MUHAMMAD
8/22/2013 I had just finished reading the report of the Wall Street Journal on the attacks of radical Islamists on Christian homes, shops and churches. The report sent from a...
Reflections on the First Days of Terrorist Nidal Hasan’s Trial
8/20/2013 This posting is a sequel to THIS article Finally, after four long years of waiting, the court-marshal of Nidal Hasan began on Tuesday, the 6th of August. I wasn’t...
Terrorist Nidal Hasan’s Unending Jihad
So what radicalized an otherwise intellectually brilliant student who had so much to offer his native country? One answer is certainly his Mosque attendance while a student in Hamburg. He chose to worship at the Jerusalem Mosque notoriously famous for being led by a fiery Imam who never ceased hurling curses and imprecations at the Infidels. I can only conclude that ‘Atta’s conscious and subconscious mind became saturated with that fire and brimstone preaching of the radical cleric. He now had justification from his spiritual leader to go on a jihad and do something great for Allah. His aim became to murder as many Infidels as possible.
The Struggle to Stop the Islamization of Turkey
Alewi intellectuals, who had gathered at a hotel in Sivas, died in a fire that engulfed the place, believed to have been caused by arsonists. This incident has become an integral part of the collective memory of Alewis.
The second group is the Kemalists. They maintain a deep reverence for the memory of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Reflections on the Month of Ramadan
6/7/2013 This article was posted on the Arabic-language reformist/Liberal online journal, Al-Awan (Kairos), on 29 August, 2010. It was authored by Sa’eed Nasheed, a Moroccan intellectual whose articles appear frequently...
The Christianization of Algeria – Research by a Correspondent of the Online Daily Elaph
5/22/2013 http://www.elaph.com/Web/news/2012/11/773637.html This year has witnessed an intensification of the struggles throughout the Islamic world. The civil war in Syria has increased in its ferocity and is claiming hundreds of...
“Boulevard of Islamism: An Example of How Islam Is Spreading and Impacting Europe”
An Interview with Mireille Valette, a Swiss Writer and Human Rights Activist
“Boulevard of Islamism: An Example of How Islam Is Spreading and Impacting Europe”
The Desperate Plight of the Copts of Egypt
Incidents of abduction of young Coptic girl have become a frequent and painful problem for the Copts of Egypt.
“Moderate” Muslims Muddy the Waters
Every Friday issue of The Wall Street Journal has an article on religion that appears under the general headline of “Houses of Worship.” The March 31, 2006 , title of...
Denial: A Characteristic of the Islamic Mind
What a pity that a civilization that persists in denial, and prefers darkness to light!
Western Columnists, Please do your Homework when Writing on Islam! – Revisited
…a clash between Islam and the Western world, has been going on for the last 1400 years
What’s Wrong with Moderate Muslims?
Judging by the proliferation of Arabic web sites, one can hardly avoid the conclusion that a great deal of ferment is going on among Arab writers and intellectuals. Early this...
Where Arab Irrationalism Leads
Unless they endeavor to make serious efforts in that direction, no renewal would take place in the Arab culture.
How to Deal with the “Other?”
A Dhimmi had to pay the Jizya, as well as to submit to the requirements of Dhimmitude.
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