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==Reception== |
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An article Ibrahim wrote on [[taqiyya]] that was commissioned and published by ''Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst'' on September 26, 2008,<ref>[http://www.meforum.org/2094/taqiyya-revisited]</ref><ref>http://jiaa.janes.com/public/jiaa/special_reports.shtml</ref> was later characterized by another author in ''[[Jane's Information Group|Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst]]'' as being "well-researched, factual in places but ... ultimately misleading".<ref>[http://articles.janes.com/articles/Janes-Islamic-Affairs-Analyst-2008/Interpreting-Taqiyya.html "Interpreting Taqiyya: Special Report"], ''Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst''. [[IHS Inc.|IHS]] [[Jane's Information Group]]. November 12, 2008.</ref> |
An article Ibrahim wrote on [[taqiyya]] that was commissioned and published by ''Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst'' on September 26, 2008,<ref>[http://www.meforum.org/2094/taqiyya-revisited]</ref><ref>http://jiaa.janes.com/public/jiaa/special_reports.shtml</ref> was later characterized by another author in ''[[Jane's Information Group|Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst]]'' as being "well-researched, factual in places but ... ultimately misleading".<ref>[http://articles.janes.com/articles/Janes-Islamic-Affairs-Analyst-2008/Interpreting-Taqiyya.html "Interpreting Taqiyya: Special Report"], ''Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst''. [[IHS Inc.|IHS]] [[Jane's Information Group]]. November 12, 2008.</ref> |
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==Hate mongering== |
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In a March 29, 2013 essay on [[David Horowitz]]'s webzine [[frontpagemag.com]], Ibrahim's article "The Threat of Islamic Betrayal" argued that all politically outspoken Muslim Americans should be feared and suspected of planning to act on hidden bellicose agendas, writing: |
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{{quotation|Indeed, the true “lesson” is best captured by the following question: If some Muslims, including women, are willing to go to such lengths to eliminate the already ostracized and downtrodden non-Muslim minorities in their midst—attending churches and becoming like “family members” to those infidels they intend to kill—how much deceit and betrayal must some of the smiling Muslim activists of America, especially those in positions of power and influence, be engaging in to subvert and eliminate the most dangerous of all infidels, the original Great Satan?<ref>http://frontpagemag.com/2013/raymond-ibrahim/the-threat-of-islamic-betrayal/</ref>}} |
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Ibrahim's August, 2012 report for The American Thinker that the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt had publicly crucified opponents of President Morsi in front of the presidential palace prompted the Thinker's blog editor, Rick Moran, to qualify the report as "at best, an exaggeration, and at worst, a hoax." <ref>http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/08/is_the_muslim_brotherhood_crucifying_opponents_of_morsi.html</ref> |
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In July, 2012, a report by Ibrahim that a Muslim cleric proscribed sodomy as permissible if done to expand the anus, allowing the insertion of a suicide bomb, was demonstrated to be a hoax. <ref>http://www.advocate.com/politics/military/2012/07/12/religious-exemption-sodomy-suicide-bombers</ref><ref>http://www.loonwatch.com/tag/raymond-ibrahim/</ref> |
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In May of 2012, Ibrahim propagated a video of a beheading in Syria deceptively mislabeled “Graphic Video: Muslims Behead Christian Convert in ‘Moderate’ Tunisia.” <ref>http://spencerwatch.com/2012/08/31/islamophobes-re-title-and-re-package-the-beheading-of-a-shia-in-syria-as-slaughter-of-christian-convert-in-tunisia/</ref> |
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In his November, 2011 essay "Why Does the Crucifix ‘Provoke’ Muslims?",<ref>http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/why-does-the-crucifix-provoke-muslims/</ref> Ibrahim propagated a report that falsely claimed Muslim students were party to a suit filed by a George Washington University Law Professor, John Banzhaf, aimed to provide relief to alleged religious discrimination by The Catholic University of America. No students, Muslim or otherwise, were actually party to the suit. |
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To a 2007 essay accusing Ibrahim of capitalizing on "Islamophobia", he is reported to have responded: |
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{{quotation|...after this Islamist op-ed was published, I received much heat from my supervisors at the Library of Congress, partially culminating in my recent resignation from that American bibliotech — another institution that goes out of its way to appease, especially where Saudi money and princes are concerned.<ref>http://www.loonwatch.com/2010/01/raymond-ibrahim-and-the-islamophobic-cash-cow/</ref>}} |
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==References== |
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Revision as of 17:11, 25 April 2013
Raymond Ibrahim (born in 1973) is an American research librarian, translator, author and columnist. His focus is Arabic history and language,[1] and current events.
Biography
Ibrahim was born in the United States to Egyptian Catholic Coptic immigrants.[2] He is fluent in Arabic and English. Ibrahim studied at California State University, Fresno, where he wrote a Master's thesis under Victor Davis Hanson on an early military encounter between Islam and Byzantium based on medieval Arabic and Greek texts.[citation needed] Ibrahim also took graduate courses at Georgetown University's Center of Contemporary Arab Studies and is studying toward a PhD in medieval Islamic history at Catholic University.[citation needed]
Career
Ibrahim was previously an Arab language specialist for the Near East section of the Library of Congress,[3] and the associate director of the Middle East Forum. He is currently a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.[4]
The 9/11 attacks played a pivotal role in framing Ibrahim's outlook. As he explained in the Chronicle of Higher Education, the attacks occurred while he was researching for his M.A. thesis, which centred on the role of jihad in early Islamic conquests; consequently, Ibrahim's study expanded from history and theology to politics, current events, al-Qaeda, Islamist organizations, and watching Al Jazeera. He claims[citation needed] an evident continuity between the words, deeds, and goals of the 7th century mujahidin ("jihadists") whom he studied and that of 21st century Islamic radicals. He maintains that to truly understand contemporary Islam and Islamism, one must first understand early Islamic history and doctrine.[citation needed]
Ibrahim is the editor and translator of The Al-Qaeda Reader, which he published after discovering a hitherto unknown Arabic al-Qaeda treatises; Ibrahim holds that document "proves once and for all that, despite the propaganda of al-Qaeda and its sympathizers, radical Islam's war with the West is not finite and limited to political grievances— real or imagined- but is existential, transcending time and space and deeply rooted in faith".[2]
Reception
An article Ibrahim wrote on taqiyya that was commissioned and published by Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst on September 26, 2008,[5][6] was later characterized by another author in Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst as being "well-researched, factual in places but ... ultimately misleading".[7]
References
- ^ "Terrorist letter's validity doubted", The Washington Times, October 18, 2005
- ^ a b "In Their Own Words; Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri explain their bloody actions.", The Washington Post, October 7, 2007
- ^ "Bin Laden writings to be translated", USA Today, Associated Press, January 20, 2005
- ^ [1]
- ^ [2]
- ^ http://jiaa.janes.com/public/jiaa/special_reports.shtml
- ^ "Interpreting Taqiyya: Special Report", Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst. IHS Jane's Information Group. November 12, 2008.
Publications
- The Al Qaeda Reader (editor and translator), Doubleday, 2007, ISBN 978-0-385-51655-6
- "How Taqiyya Alters Islam's Rules of War", Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2010, pp. 3–13
- "Are Judaism and Christianity as Violent as Islam?", Middle East Quarterly, Summer 2009, pp. 3–12
- "An Analysis of Al-Qa'ida's Worldview: Reciprocal Treatment or Religious Obligation", Middle East Review of International Affairs, Vol. 12, No. 3, September 2008
- "Studying the Islamic Way of War", National Review Online, September 11, 2008
- "Islam's Doctrines of Deception", Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst, September 26, 2008
- "Jesus and Mohammad, Version 2.0", National Review Online, September 10, 2007
- "The Two Faces of Al Qaeda", The Chronicle of Higher Education, Vol. 54, Issue 4, p. B3, September 21, 2007
- "Islam gets concessions; Infidels get conquered", Los Angeles Times, December 5, 2006
