A.S. Ibrahim was born in Egypt; he is either a former Muslim or a Copt. In either case, he is determined to set Westerners straight about the menace of Islam. His most recent essay on this theme can be found here: “The Economist’s comforting confusion about Islam,” by A.S. Ibrahim, World, September 17, 2026:
Don’t trust liberal media outlets or progressive politicians when they talk about Islam in the West.
Exhibit A: The Economist’s Sept. 10 cover story, “The truth and the lies about Islam in Europe.” The article opens honestly enough, with panic about Islam rising across the continent. At present, large shares of the public view Islam as incompatible with Western values and the shift can be seen in the gains conservative parties are making in Germany, Britain, and France. Then, having correctly diagnosed the fever, the article spends the rest of its word count diluting the “Muslim” problem and insisting the patient isn’t actually sick.
According to the piece, there is no Islamic dominance, no takeover, no mass radicalization, and no erasure of European culture. Sharia, we are told, isn’t entering national law. There’s no demographic “great replacement.” Muslims make up roughly 6% of Europe’s population, and even though immigrant fertility runs higher, the rates converge within two generations—“a long way,” the article assures us, from civilizational erasure. Most Muslim immigrants, it says, are fine people fully integrating in European life and want to succeed in their new countries, not remake them. And in its one moment of near-honesty, the article concedes: “Islam poses no serious danger. But Islamism and the fear of Islam do.” Even there, it hastens to add that most Islamists reject violence outright, preferring quieter “entryism” into political and social institutions to advance goals it calls “illiberal” without ever defining the term.
What a toothless piece of analysis!
Here is what a lifetime studying Islamic texts, history, and movements teaches us: Islam, once it grows in representation within a society, doesn’t settle for being one voice among many. It seeks dominion. The Economist’s own reporting concedes as much when it describes Muslim communities pressing for social and political accommodation well beyond proportional presence. You can see the pattern in New York City, where mosques are plentiful yet demands persist for overflow prayer in the streets and for the call to prayer to be broadcast to entire neighborhoods, believers and unbelievers alike. This is the signature move: Play the aggrieved minority while numbers are small, then press for public deference once numbers grow….
Long before they are a majority, history teaches us, Muslims have taken over lands, sometimes through violent means — both qital (combat) and terrorism — and sometimes by inexorable demographic conquest, as happened to Egypt, where an entirely Coptic society was reduced over time to 10% of the population. In European countries where they now live, and are 10% or less of the population — as in France, the U.K., and Germany —Muslims are already entering politics in noticeable numbers, and also using their power as a political bloc to persuade non-Muslim politicians to carry out their wishes. It’s the same situation in the United States, where Muslim political candidates at every level have burst onto the scene and too often, alas, are winning. They have managed to turn much of the Democratic Party against Israel, and as a result, may even be able to block arms sales to Israel that are critical to its survival. On campuses all over the Western world, students have been brainwashed into hating Israel and, just as worrisome, fed a sanitized version of Islamic history that the ghost of Scheherezade could not have bettered.
somehistory says
According to a former adherent and a guest of Glenn Beck, ‘islam is a State with a religion within.’
He said it should be compared, not to Christianity, but to America with Christianity as a base.
He said, in reply to Beck, that if only 1% of the muzzies in the U.S. are following the book, that means there are 50,000 muzzie terrorists in the U.S.
There are way more of them in Europe…so the threat is great; while the government ‘leaders’ from the Left…esp those embracing communism ,thinking they can use the muzzies, but the muzzies will destroy them after getting the control they seek.
https://glennbeck.com/watch/videos/the-secret-about-islam-that-they-dont-want-you-to-know?utm_source=Recurring%20%7C%202026-09-21%20%7C%20PM_Newsletter_Recurring&utm_medium=
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Why does anybody take “The Economist” editorials seriously? They’ve always been self-opinionated, bloviating windbags who thought that they have the best solutions for every country in their editorial offices. They think that Americans are arrogant, but that’s sheer projection on their part
Good for Mr Ibrahim (any relative of Raymond?) for wanting to warn the West about islam, but there have already been many like him before. If they haven’t managed to convince Westerners, not sure what more he might manage to do? Westerners – particularly Europeans – will only be educated by rape, and little else
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Everyone who knows what Islam is all about has to keep hammering away, in every possible way, to convince others of the unpalatable truth.
Billy says
Islam and its Muslims are a Criminal-Terrorist-Gang Enterprise against all Non-Muslims with Muslim discrimination, segregation, hatred, violence, and terrorism as taught in Islamic Law and in Islam’s Qur’an(Qur’an 9:5, 29, 41, 111; 49:15, etc.). Actually, Islam is the daily practice of Islamic Law, Sharia, which is created from the Qur’an, the Sira, the Hadith, the Tafsir, the Tarikh, past Islamic Legal Rulings, etc to solidify power and control. Furthermore, Muslim Islamization includes Muslim Criminal-Terrorist-Gang Organizations using Governments, Bureaucracies, Mosques, Muslim Homes, Muslim Schools, Halal Organizations, Islamic Centers, Sharia Courts, Muslim Non-Profits, etc. to fund, to educate, and to support Islam Law and Muslim Propaganda against all Non-Muslims(Qur’an 1:5; 3:51, 101, 118; 5:3, 48; 8:60, 45:18; 48:29, etc.).
Public Funding is a privilege that should NOT BE granted to organizations that are against the US Constitution or Western Constitutions. Islam and its Organizations including Muslim Schools and Mosques are against the US Constitution due to Muslim funding, teaching, and promoting discrimination, segregation, hatred, rape, violence, totalitarianism, and terrorism to make Islamic Law supreme. Islam’s Muslims are murderous, Totalitarian Terrorists of Allah operating as a Criminal-Terrorist-Gang Enterprise under Islamic Law to ultimately conquer the enemies of Allah, the Non-Muslims, with Islamic Law DBA Islam(Qur’an 8:60; 9:5, 29, 111; 49:15, etc.).
John Pepple says
Muslims will be imposing Islamic law de facto and then de jure. That is, they will force it on people in their daily lives by harassing women so they don’t dare to walk the streets freely, forcing everyone to hear their calls to prayer, bullying non-Islamic schoolchildren when they can, and so on. The actual Islamic law will be imposed when they have more numbers and no one will dare oppose them. Nor do they need a majority; as it is right now, it is difficult to oppose them because so many are worried about being called racist, so just think what it will be like in twenty years. Plus, I’m sure there are leftists who feel so guilty about colonialism that they would accept Islamic law in place of our own in order to feel less guilty.
As for the idea that birth rates are going to converge, that’s just an unwarranted speculation on their part. It’s a matter of prudence to assume that they will not. And what will we lose by being prudent? Nothing, since Muslims add very little to our society anyway.
And finally, the idea that most Muslims are assimilating is pretty much an unverifiable claim. Are “moderate Muslims” who have supposedly been assimilated marching against the imposition of Islamic law? Are they upset by all of the rapes? Are they willing to put up with the dogs, booze, and secular lifestyles of their neighbors, or are they going to force their lifestyles on everyone else? Will they allow us to eat during the day during the month of Ramadan, or will they hassle us about it?
I’m just not seeing any support from these assimilated Muslims for the lifestyles of the average non-Muslim.