Willful Blindness to Global Jihad: Raymond Ibrahim on Secure Freedom Radio

Raymond Ibrahim was recently interviewed on Secure Freedom Radio with Frank Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policy. Split into four 10-minute segments, the 40-minute interview follows:

PART 1: 

• How ISIS plays into the bigger picture of global jihad
• America’s willful blindness to the fact that to defeat an enemy, one must know the enemy
• The American far-left’s apologist-position towards radical Islam

PART 2: 

• Defensive versus offensive jihad in Shariah doctrine
• Comparing ISIS and Al-Qaeda
• The consequences of ISIS declaring an Islamic Caliphate

PART 3: 

• President Obama’s misleading remarks about the connection of jihadist terrorism to Islam
• The long history of Christian persecution in the Muslim world

PART 4: 

• Recommendations for future U.S. policies to combat the global jihad
• Lessons learned from the American strategy that defeated the communist ideology of the Soviet Union
• Problems with the labels put on those who question the radical aspects of Shariah law