by Burak Bekdil – Gatestone Institute – In Turkish jargon, the difference is simple: It is “conquest” when we do it and “invasion” when others do it. In [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – On May 30, 2020 — two days before President Trump congratulated Copts around the world — Egyptian authorities demolished the village of Koum [...]
By Nina Shea – WSJ – A new executive order puts the neglected issue at the heart of U.S. foreign policy. For decades religious freedom has been treated as the unwanted stepchild in [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – Islamic terror attacks that target Christians in Turkey are not uncommon. Around Christmas of 2011, a large-scale al-Qaeda plot [...]
By Neil Hicks, Senior Director for Advocacy – Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies – Editors Note: The response below was submitted to Coptic Solidarity as a [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Two themes permeate much of the discourse surrounding ongoing riots: that racism in America, particularly against blacks, is “systemic”; and that any show of force [...]
By Uzay Bulut – Gatestone Institute – According to the Koran and the recorded sayings (hadith) and biographies (sira) of Islam’s founder, “To leave Islam, to [...]
By Samuel Tadros – As rare as it may be for an article in an anthropology website to ignite fierce debates within the Coptic community, a piece by Candace Lukasik, a PhD candidate [...]
By Samuel Tadros – The Washington Post – A few days ago, a revealing WhatsApp message popped up on my iPhone: “Egypt is defeating the conspiracy and saving the world.” The text [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – April 24 marks the “Great Crime,” that is, the genocide of Christians—mostly Armenians but also Assyrians and Greeks—that took place under the Islamic Ottoman Empire, [...]
