Posted on 06/23/2026 8:20:56 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
On March 21, 2026, the Danish Free Press Society awarded Raymond Ibrahim with the Sappho Prize. This video contains the official award ceremony, including Mr. Ibrahim’s talk, which took place in Copenhagen.
In a press release, the Danish Free Press Society explained why Raymond Ibrahim was awarded the 2026 Sappho Prize.
An excerpt follows:
“For more than two decades, Raymond Ibrahim has been one of the most rigorous and intellectually consistent voices in the international debate on Christian persecution, Islamism, and the historical conflicts between Islam and the West.His work is grounded in extensive study of primary sources — including classical Arabic texts, medieval chronicles, and modern jihadist documents. Combining scholarly depth with rare communicative clarity, he has made complex historical realities accessible to a broad audience.
Ibrahim insists on something fundamental: that religion matters. That sacred texts matter. That history matters. And that violence committed in the name of God does not become less real simply because it is uncomfortable.
He has systematically documented the ongoing and structural persecution of Christians in large parts of the Muslim world, and has placed contemporary conflicts within a broader historical framework in books such as Crucified Again, Sword and Scimitar, Defenders of the West, and most recently The Two Swords of Christ.
It is precisely this insistence on taking religious sources seriously that has made him controversial. On several occasions, attempts have been made to cancel his lectures under accusations of “Islamophobia” — including at the U.S. Army War College in 2019.
The Danish Free Press Society awards the 2026 Sappho Prize to Raymond Ibrahim for his fearless, source-based scholarship exposing the persecution of Christians and the historical realities of Islamist violence — pursued with intellectual integrity despite sustained efforts to silence and discredit him.”
00:33 Presentation speech by Aia Fog
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Eleven days ago, Victor Hanson interviewed Raymond Ibrahim on his podcast "Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words." Ibrahim was one of Professor Hanson's students 30 years ago.
Why the West Can't Defeat Islam | Victor Davis Hanson & Raymond Ibrahim
Victor Davis Hanson and Raymond Ibrahim dive deep into the 1,400-year history of Islamic conquests, the fall of Constantinople, and the brutal lessons the modern West refuses to learn. They explore Islam’s conflict with Israel, Turkish supremacism, the Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens phenomenon, and why Eastern Europe understands the threat while Western Europe sleepwalks toward disaster.
Looks like colonialism isn’t gone.
“Looks like colonialism isn’t gone.”
That’s the supreme irony, isn’t it? All the insane pink- and green-haired progs rail endlessly against the bogeyman “colonialism” but are so stupid that they don’t see it wiping THEMSELVES out.
Promoting global Marxism outright in the West has failed, especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the rise of conservative, Christian, nationalist states in Russia and Eastern Europe.
It can’t be defended.
So the convenient and available top-down, statist, radical anti-human ideology that exists and can be easily politicized for the same goals is Islam.
Thanks for posting. I really like Raymond Ibrahim’s articles.
Link saved to Muslim Problems folder - Thanks - good post!
Happy to post it!
“I really like Raymond Ibrahim’s articles.” — I can’t believe I was unfamiliar with him before this! I like his speaking style. I’ll have to start reading him.
Look at the news, islam, muslems ARE a subversive threat to the U.S and the entire western world.
We all know that islam is a death cult and criminal mafia like organization. A thugocracy ... do the research and then you decide what a moslem is.
As per the koran they must invade, kill, conqueror, subjugate, rape at least that’s what I’ve read in the two or three I’ve read and scanned through as many others of the what 19 or 20 of them?
(The 20 Versions of the Qur’an today. (7 are recorded in the Hadith.) There are the readings or Qira’at then there are also twelve different ways of reading the Quran. The most well-known and popular are Hafs and Warsh.)
For them it’s sharia and nothing else. Tho islam and moslems being just another jumped up death cult with a thugocracy thrown in for fun it shouldn’t surprise anyone that they are destructive.
Hello is this mic on??????????
**Death-cult, thugocracy, criminal organization, murders, rapists, pedophiles, zoophilia/bestiality, cannibals, necrophiliacs**
They have instructions called fatwas that codify when they can kill and eat their spouses, that they can have sex with their goat but not eat it, but can sell it to another, who to kill, who to kidnap, ransom, who to rape, subjugate. Kill the strong, subvert the weak.
Hello is this mic on??????????
**Death-cult, thugocracy, criminal organization, murders, rapists, pedophiles, zoophilia/bestiality, cannibals, necrophiliacs**
Google knife attacks, (vehicle, truck, car attacks), google bombings, google rape gangs, google hostages, google mass homicides, google fire bombing and the overwhelming majority will have a moslem, or a palestinian involved as the perpetrator. We all know that islam is a death cult and criminal mafia like organization. ...do the searches and then you decide what a moslem is.
Not just the West.
We should be talking more about the Christians in Nigeria.
At least Trump is doing something about that.
Raymond Ibrahim posts articles occasionally on American Thinker. I post them on FR most of the time (as long as they interest me).
The truth is that islam has persecuted and continues to persecute Christians, Jews, and others.
Iranian islam continues to persecute women, and even its own people. Iranians who wish to convert to Christianity must be free to do so, without any penalties whatsoever!
I read a day or two ago that Iran is going to give a beautiful young woman 73 lashes for singing!
Islamists pray five times a day for the rewards of a death attained trying to kill us.
Bkmk
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