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Crucified Again: Exposing Islam's New War on Christians Hardcover – April 29, 2013
Raymond Ibrahim unveils the shocking truth about Christians in the Muslim world. Believers in Jesus Christ suffer oppression and are massacred at the hands of radicals for worshipping and spreading the gospel of the Lord.
Discover the true-life stories that the media won't report in Ibrahim's Crucified Again: Exposing Islam's New War on Christians.
- Print length256 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherRegnery
- Publication dateApril 29, 2013
- Dimensions6 x 1.2 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101621570258
- ISBN-13978-1621570257
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In this shocking tell-all, Raymond Ibrahim documents the appalling sufferings of Christians from Morocco to Indonesia, from Turkey to Nigeriaeverywhere, in fact, that Islamic Sharia and the culture it has shaped hold sway. Ibrahim, a Coptic Christian born and raised in America by Egyptian parents, uses his fluent Arabic, his thorough knowledge of Muslim sources, and his contacts in Christian communities across the Islamic world to uncover the truth about the outrageous abuse Christians undergo on a daily basis and to expose and explain the otherwise unfathomable indifference of Western academia, media, and government to the greatest human rights abuse crisis of our time.
In Crucified Again, you'll learn:
The real source of Muslim violence toward Christians (it's not about race, nationality, or economics)
Why Muslims cannot tolerate Christian worship and Christian freedom
The remarkable consistency in the Muslim persecution of Christians across centuries and continents
The myth of historical Muslim "tolerance"and how it got started
Why Islamic persecution of Christians is getting worse
This gripping book tells the unreported story of Christians under Muslim oppression with passion and utterly convincing detail.
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- Publisher : Regnery; First Edition first Printing (April 29, 2013)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 256 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1621570258
- ISBN-13 : 978-1621570257
- Item Weight : 1.26 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #452,322 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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RAYMOND IBRAHIM is a widely published author and public speaker specializing in the Middle East and Islam.
His books include Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood against Islam (Bombardier, 2022); Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West (Da Capo, 2018); Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians (Regnery, 2013); and The Al Qaeda Reader (Doubleday, 2007).
Ibrahim’s writings, translations, and observations have appeared in a variety of publications, including the New York Times Syndicate, CNN, LA Times, Fox News, Financial Times, Jerusalem Post, United Press International, USA Today, Washington Post, Washington Times, and Weekly Standard; scholarly journals, including the Almanac of Islamism, Chronicle of Higher Education, Hoover Institution’s Strategika, Jane’s Islamic Affairs Analyst, Middle East Quarterly, and Middle East Review of International Affairs; and popular websites, including American Thinker, Bloomberg, Breitbart, Christian Post, Daily Caller, FrontPage Magazine, NewsMax, National Review Online, PJ Media, and World Magazine. He has contributed chapters to several anthologies, written forewords to books, and been translated into dozens of languages.
Among other media, he has appeared on MSNBC, Fox News, C-SPAN, PBS, Reuters, Al-Jazeera, and NPR; he has done hundreds of radio interviews and some of his YouTube videos (here and here for example) have received over a million views each.
Ibrahim guest lectures at universities, including the U.S. Army War College and the National Defense Intelligence College; has briefed governmental agencies, such as U.S. Strategic Command and the Defense Intelligence Agency; provides expert testimony for Islam-related lawsuits; and has testified before Congress regarding the conceptual failures that dominate American discourse concerning Islam and the worsening plight of Christian minorities throughout the Islamic world. He also regularly speaks at general venues, such as CPAC, and before international audiences, most recently, Germany’s Bundestag.
Ibrahim’s dual-background—born and raised in the U.S. by Egyptian parents born and raised in the Middle East—has provided him with unique advantages, from equal fluency in English and Arabic, to an equal understanding of the Western and Middle Eastern mindsets, positioning him to explain the latter to the former. His interest in Islamic civilization was first piqued when he began visiting the Middle East as a child in the 1970s. Interacting and conversing with the locals throughout the decades has provided him with an intimate appreciation for that part of the world, complementing his academic training.
After a brief athletic career—which included playing football and winning the 1993 NPC Los Angeles Bodybuilding Championship teenage division—Raymond went on to receive his B.A. and M.A. (both in History, focusing on the ancient and medieval Near East, with dual-minors in Philosophy and English) from California State University, Fresno. There he studied closely with noted military-historian Victor Davis Hanson. He also took graduate courses at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies—including classes on the history, politics, and economics of the Arab world—and studied Medieval Islam and Semitic languages at Catholic University of America. His M.A. thesis examined an early military encounter between Islam and Byzantium based on arcane Arabic and Greek texts.
Ibrahim’s resume includes serving as an Arabic language and regional specialist at the Near East Section of the Library of Congress, where he was often contacted by and provided information to defense and intelligence personnel involved in the fields of counterterrorism and area studies, as well as the Congressional Research Service; and serving as Associate Director of the Middle East Forum, a Philadelphia think tank.
He also often functions as a journalist and has been a Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution and news analyst for a variety of media, for example, CBN News. His knowledge of Arabic and familiarity with Middle Eastern sources have enabled him to offer breaking news. Days before the Obama administration blamed an anti-Islamic movie for Muslim uprisings against a U.S. consul and an embassy in Libya and Egypt respectively, Ibrahim showed that the demonstrations were pre-planned and unrelated to the movie. Similarly, he was first to expose an Arabic-language Saudi fatwa that called for the destruction of any Christian church found on the Arabian Peninsula.
For over a decade since July, 2011, Ibrahim has been producing a monthly report, “Muslim Persecution of Christians,” dedicated to chronicling the abuses and slaughters Christians experience throughout the Islamic world. In certain respects, these monthly reports — there are nearly 140 of them, each averaging between 3,000-4,000 words — are the “live,” ongoing continuation of his 2013 book, Crucified Again.
Raymond Ibrahim is the Distinguished Senior Shillman Fellow at the Gatestone Institute and the Judith Friedman Rosen Fellow at the Middle East Forum.
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During the communist menace, Lenin famously spoke of the "useful idiots" in the West who do their work and become their apologists. We have plenty of those today when it comes to Islam. But fortunately we have had those who sounded the alarm about the ideology of bloodshed and death communism was.
Solzhenitsyn of course produced his famous Gulag Archipelago, documenting the hellhole of life in the Soviet Union for dissenters, non-conformists and political prisoners. And there was Armando Valladares' Against All Hope, the horrific account of his 22 years in Cuban prisons for standing up for freedom.
Fortunately we have the modern-day equivalent describing life under totalitarian Islam, and how Christians are being horribly persecuted by this political ideology. It should be a wakeup call to anyone under the illusion that Islam is a religion of peace, and that there are just a few bad eggs spoiling an otherwise nice religion.
Of course the useful idiots said the same thing about communism. They had their heads in the sand and refused to believe that communism was an evil ideology that can only be sustained by violence and murder. Islam is no different: it is a religion of the sword. It spread by military conquest and it exists by terror and oppression.
While there is plenty of ugly persecution going on in the world, it is Islam which leads the way. Says Ibrahim, "The ratio of Muslims to Christians in any given country is the primary factor explaining which countries see the most and the least Christian persecution."
And in this important book we find a blow by blow description of all the incessant and diabolical persecution of Christians taking place around the Islamic world. Although Christians have always felt the wrath of the followers of Islam, it seems that things have really hotted up in recent times.
Whether it is the Sudan, or Egypt, or Syria, or Nigeria, or Turkey, or Morocco, or Indonesia, the amount of suffering, persecution, torture and death is simply overwhelming. As such, this is not a pleasant book to read, but it is a most necessary book to read.
In 300 pages we find it all: the rapes, the beatings, the burnings, the bombings, the acid attacks, the honour killings, the lootings, the churches destroyed, the homes razed, the villages decimated, and countless lives lost. And what is so important about this book is the fact that most of this you will never hear about from the mainstream media in the West.
Not only do most media elites in the West share the same hatred of America, Israel and the West as do so many Muslims, but even if they did want to actually cover these stories, and report fairly, most of it is hidden from them. But Ibrahim, who is fluent in Arabic, is able to carefully and daily monitor the Arabic media to find out firsthand what is taking place.
He simply translates the stories from Arabic media outlets, and presents them on his website - and here - since most of the MSM refuses to cover this persecution. And of course Hollywood and academia are just as guilty of the deliberate whitewashing of Islam and its sustained assault on Christians and Christianity.
That is why you will hardly ever hear of imams calling for the death of Christians, the destruction of all churches, and the total take-over of the free West. These calls are being made all the time in Arabic, but our media is either unaware of them or chooses to ignore them.
So both the big picture (Islam's openly declared war against the West and Christianity) and the smaller picture (stories of individual persecution and terror) are routinely missed by the MSM. But ignorance of Arabic is no excuse here. There are getting to be almost as many atrocities committed in the West by Muslims as in Muslim lands.
As Ibrahim remarks, this manifests itself "wherever significant numbers of Muslims live side by side with non-Muslims". Thus he has plenty of horror stories from within the West as well. Consider the Muslim child-rape gang in the UK.
Islam views non-Muslim women and children as objects of sexual gratification, and so it should not be surprising that "pillars of their community" were recently found guilty of horrific child sex abuse. In Liverpool five victims (the youngest just thirteen) were plied with alcohol and drugs and "passed around" a group of men aged 24 to 59 for sex in apartments, taxis, and kebab shops.
But the bulk of this book deals with the mind-numbing violence and slaughter of believers in Muslim-majority countries. Sub-Saharan Africa is certainly a major site of jihad on churches, and Nigeria is especially a tragic place. In September 2011 for example, Muslims hacked to death thousands of Christians, including many children and pregnant women. A 79-year-old Christian woman had her throat slit in her home.
In April 2012 Muslim attackers set upon a church service, throwing explosives and opening fire as worshippers attempted to flee. In December of that year four more churches were torched and ten Christians murdered. Twenty houses were burned and other churches assaulted, all to the cries of "Allahu Akbar!"
I can recount such horror stories for hours on end here. But why should I, when it is all found in this book. You must get this book. You must read it. You must let it wake you to the tragic truth that there is a war going on, and your faith makes you the enemy of Islam.
Muslim activists have vowed to kill you and destroy your faith. It is simply not good enough to just sit by and pretend it is not happening. The truth is out there. It is clearly found in this vital book. And knowledge of this means you can no longer say, "I never knew".
Here you will find clear definitions of classic Islamic doctrines of jihad, the dhimma contract, the Conditions of Omar, and more. Crucified Again serves very well as a primer for someone wanting to get up to speed on the threat of Radical Islam. But it is much more than an introductory book.
The evidence presented by Raymond Ibrahim offers ominous proof that Muslim extremists are again relentlessly persecuting Christians from one end of the Islamic world to the other. From Morocco in the West to Indonesia in the East Christians are under mounting pressure and worsening conditions. Safety and coexistence are a thing of the past.
But did a "coexistent past" between Muslims and Christians ever really exist? This important question is also at the crux of Ibrahim's presentation.
In fact, there was, for about a century or so, a quasi-peaceful period between Christians and Muslims, marked by a more secular Islam and reduced (though not eliminated) violence towards Christians. (A horrific exception to the rule is the Armenian Genocide, which historians agree actually stretched from 1894 to 1922, and resulted in the death of 4 million Christians at the hands of the Turkish Muslims.) Mr. Ibrahim calls this the "Christian Golden Age," brought about by the incontestable dominance (both military and economic) of the Western European "Great Powers" (which also included Tsarist Russia) beginning about 1850, which interrupted centuries of Islamic supremacy.
But because our cultural memory stretches back only so far, many in the West are inclined to believe that the relatively calm Muslim-Christian coexistence from 1850-1950 was the norm, that it has always been thus. So most Westerners struggle with understanding the root causes of contemporary Muslim-on-Christian violence, without being able to consider Islam itself as the primary force. As Mr. Ibrahim writes,
"They fail to comprehend that the Golden Age was the historical aberration--an exception to the rule, not the rule."
Mr. Ibrahim also discusses Islam's dramatic and violent turn away from Western values beginning in the 1960s and 70s, capped by the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran. As Muslims turned back to traditional Islam, they have re-embraced more and more aspects of Islamic life, including the Sharia, and, as we are seeing in epidemic form, increased persecution of Christians:
"The myopic West cannot comprehend that Muslims have gone back to treating Christians in the exact same ways Muslims treated Christians before Muslims began to emulate the West. That history is all but lost."
Islam's new war against Christians is thus not a unique or isolated phenomenon, Ibrahim asserts, but must be seen as something of a case study, an ample proof of a dangerous, resurgent, global Islam. Citing numerous cases of media bias in reporting or, often, ignoring, Muslim attacks of Christians, Ibrahim concludes,
"Christian persecution is perhaps the most obvious example of a phenomenon the mainstream media wants to ignore out of existence--Islamic supremacism... If the mainstream media were to report honestly on the persecution of Christians under Islam, the obvious implications that Islam is dangerously hostile to all non-Muslims would be inescapable."
This is precisely why, of all books on Islam, Raymond Ibrahim's new work Crucified Again is indispensable. The lessons contained within it are many, and it will bear repeated readings, as well as serving as an essential resource text. Exhaustive documentary of Muslim persecution of Christians, corrective historical analysis, antidote to the poison of a false multicultural narrative perpetuated by academia, the media and government--this is Raymond Ibrahim's herculean counter assault to the global challenge of an emboldened Islam. He is striving with the pen to advance a paradigm shift in our epistemology, our very worldview, and the stakes for our civilization couldn't be higher.
Islamic supremacism is back, in a very big way, and Raymond Ibrahim is at the forefront of Western scholarship in opening our eyes and minds to the crisis now hammering away at our front door.
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1. "Vergessene Geschichte". Hier zeigt der Autor, dass die derzeit in islamischen Ländern stattfindende Christenverfolgung nicht etwa eine temporäre, durch ökonomische oder politische Missstände bedingte, Abirrung darstellt von einem ansonsten über Jahrhunderte andauernden Verhältnis der Toleranz gegenüber Christen. Vielmehr sieht er Christenverfolgung als den Ausdruck eines dem Islam wesenhaft innewohnenden Machtanspruchs. Eine Art goldenes Zeitalter erlebten Christen in islamischen Ländern nur zeitweilig um ca. 1850-1950. Die Zustände davor werden heute vielfach verdrängt.
2. "Der Kampf des Islam gegen christlichen Gottesdienst". Ausgehend von den sog. "Bedingungen Omars" (des 2. Kalifen) wird die grundsätzliche Feindseligkeit des Islam in ihren verschiedenen Erscheinungsformen gegenüber christlichen Kirchen behandelt. Neben historischen Fakten wird eine Fülle von Belegen hierfür aus neuester Zeit von Afrika bis Indonesien geliefert.
3. "Der Kampf des Islam gegen christliche Freiheit". Mit christlicher Freiheit gemeint sind hier speziell der freiwillige Übertritt eines Muslim zum Christentum (Apostasie), negative Äusserungen gegen Glaubensgegenstände des Islam (Blasphemie) und Abwerbung vom Islam (Proselyten machen) - alles Handlungen, die im Islam ausdrücklich verboten sind und nach islamischem Recht (der Scharia) geahndet werden müssen. Wie dieses Recht heute in islamischen Ländern gehandhabt wird, wird an einer großen Zahl von Fällen aus vielen Ländern geschildert.
4. "Ein Klima des Hasses". Islamische Doktrin beeinflusst nach Ansicht des Autors auch den Durchschnitts-Muslim. Er verhält sich den kulturellen, sozialen und politischen Erscheinungsformen der Scharia gegenüber genau so konform wie ein "radikaler" Muslim, wenn auch - im Gegensatz zu letzterem - eher unbewusst. Als wesentliche Grundlage für solch Klima des Hasses wird das Erziehungswesen mit dem für alle obligatorischem Koranunterricht und den damit verbundenen anti-christlichen Akzenten herausgestellt.
5. "Nichts sehen, nichts hören". Mit dieser Charakterisierung beschreibt der Autor anhand von Beispielen aus der Gegenwart die akademische Elite in den USA, Presse, Fernsehen und Film sowie die persönliche Haltung von Präsident B.H. Obama. -
Ein 54 Seiten umfassender Abschnitt mit Anmerkungen, zumeist mit Internetadressen versehen, ermöglicht es dem Leser, die Quellen nachzuprüfen. Der Autor ist koptischer Christ, Sohn eines in den 50er Jahren des letzten Jahrhunderts aus Ägypten nach den USA ausgewanderten Kopten. Unnötig zu sagen, dass dies Buch den Islam aus koptischer Perspektive beurteilt.
Aus meiner Sicht ist "Crucified Again" sehr lesenswert. Zu wünschen wäre eine deutsche Übersetzung.
Raymond Ibrahim is one of the most recognized Christian authorities/pundits/commentators on this subject and this book is up to his usual standard.
I'm Catholic, and I recommend this book to my fellow Catholics - or all Christians, for that matter - without hesitation or reservation as an introduction or overview of how Muslims are persecuting Christians throughout the world in the name of Islam.
Ibrahim is an Arabic speaker and quotes extensively from Arab, Islamist and Muslim media, including mainstream media, social media and web sites, to back up his argument that Islamists and Muslim are deliberately targeting for Christians for persecution and subjugation in the name of Islam. He also cites relevant passages from the Koran, hadith and sharia law as providing religious justification to Muslims for the systematic and deliberate persecution of Christians.
As one example of many, Ibrahim quotes a female Kuwaiti legislator as saying that Russian women captured by Muslims in Chechnya, or other Islamic majority areas along Russia's borders, should be kept or sold as sex slaves for Muslim men and that this is a desirable situation fully justified by the Koran, hadith and sharia.
Islamist persecution of Christians throughout the world is a very real problem, but a problem to which many Christians in the West turn a blind eye. Raymond Ibrahim's book is an excellent overview of this problem and should be essential reading for all Christians.
Many will undoubtedly accuse Ibrahim of being a hate-monger, or worse. He isn't. This is a well researched, well documented and well written book on an issue that should be of concern to all Christians.







