Middle East/Africa

Without Firing a Shot: How Islam Overcame the West

How Islam Overcame the West: Islamic Religious Syncretism: Istanbul, Hagia Sophia, Turkey

  How Islam Overcame the West: In his well-known history of Western civilization, Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) offered an interesting “what if” scenario concerning the pivotal Battle of Tours (732 A.D.), when a massive Muslim army—which had terrorized, slaughtered, and enslaved every Christian on its path—was finally halted and defeated by the Franks in the middle of France. Had the Muslims actually won, Gibbon …

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Netflix’s depiction of Cleopatra is completely fake. Cleopatra was Greek blonde, not black

Netflix’s Cleopatra is fake:

  By having her depicted as a Black woman, Netflix’s “Queen Cleopatra” is creating a stir. Because all four of my grandparents were Coptic Egyptian, and because the Copts are “acknowledged as the remaining descendants of the civilization of the Ancient Egyptians, with Pharaonic origins,” I cannot resist but offer my two cents. Former Egyptian Antiquities Minister Zahi Hawass insists …

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Colonization ended Slavery in Africa, it did not start it

Colonization ended Slavery in Africa: Raymond Ibrahim

  In what follows, Michele Antaki—a former UN interpreter, journalist, and translator offers another exclusive by summarizing a recent speech given in French by Ernest Tigori, an Ivorian intellectual and political activist, exiled in France, and winner of the Nelson Mandela Prize for Literature in 2017. In his new book “L’Afrique à désintoxiquer” (“Detoxifying Africa”), he explains why it is …

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2023 Orthodox Easter in Jerusalem: The Holy Fire “Christ is Risen!”

2023 Orthodox Easter in Jerusalem: AP

  Saturday evening marked the end of the Orthodox fasting period, as Christian worshippers in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem gathered to worship. 2023 Orthodox Easter in Jerusalem: This evening marks the greatest event of the year for Orthodox Christians – who have kept the original Christian traditions since the death of Christ, and reside all over …

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Celebrating Easter with Orthodox Christians

Orthodox Easter: g Easter with Eastern Orthodox Ch Ecumenical Patriarchy, Eastern Orthodox Church, Istanbul. Hanne Nabintu Herland Report Istanbul

  Easter is the most important celebration for Christians all over the world. The commemoration of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is the center for celebrations all over the Middle East and among all Orthodox Christians around the world.  The Eastern Orthodox Church is honored by Christians from all over the Middle East, Ukraine, Russia, Ethiopia, Greece and …

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Lack of Morality creates Western Downfall: The greatest failing in modern Western thought is the lack of a basic common moral understanding

Cultural Superiority? The Christian contributions to Western culture: Equality, human dignity, rationality The Ancient Defenders of the West against Islam in Europe, new book by Raymond Ibrahim

  Herland Report: Lack of Morality creates Downfall: The Singaporean diplomat, Kishore Mahbubani has said that the greatest failing in modern Western thought is the lack of a basic common moral understanding. It creates a cultural divide that will sap and divide the West in the years ahead. Mahbubani argues that as a result of the ethical decline, the West has …

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Defenders of the West: The Left’s strategy to turn children against parents and crush cultural stability

To turn children against parents: The “recruitment” of future janissaries — Christian children enslaved into becoming Muslim jihadists

  “Christianity was saved in Europe solely because the peoples of Europe fought. If [Europeans]…had not possessed a military equality with, and gradually a growing superiority over the Mohammedans who invaded Europe, Europe would at this moment be Mohammedan and the Christian religion would be exterminated.” — Theodore Roosevelt I came across Roosevelt’s observation in Raymond Ibrahim’s recent book, Defenders of the …

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