Raymond Ibrahim

and uh the very word coptic actually comes from the same word of egyptian you know egypt gift became copped so when the arabs entered and conquered egypt they just uh dropped the first and last syllable and called them the gifts and we became known as the cops so yeah it's a it's an ethnic but it's also a religious designation and they're the descendants of the pharaohs actually i like to remind people that even the coptic language which still exists in the liturgy

is the direct descendant of the pharaonic language, which has nothing to do with Arabic, of course, even though Arabic is today the primary language of Egypt.

It's the Coptic language.

So, yeah, we know a lot about Islam.

We're about one of the earliest groups of people who encountered the jihadist sword, like I said, right around 640 AD.

This would only be eight years after Muhammad's death and about 70 years before Islam reached France in the Battle of Tours.

And you fast forward to now, literally 14 centuries, and they're still the number one people who tend to be maybe – other than maybe Christians in Nigeria and in other sub-Saharan nations, the Copts and the other indigenous peoples.

christians like the assyrians um in in iraq and in syria but hang on i want to go but if we can put up if we put up the covers of of his books because folks i strongly recommend you get all three books in regards to this you will hear that you'll see the history of this invasion uh

not just in the West, but throughout the entire world, number one, Sword and Scimitar.

You'll then, his second book was about the heroes that stood in the breach of which people in this audience are going to have to replicate those heroes, defenders of the West, which were just incredible.

And now you've got the one about the military orders during the Crusades, the Knights Hospitallers, the Knights of St.

John, and the Knights Templars.

Raymond, the books are gripping, but I just want to leave folks with the following.

Greatest state of Texas is.

And I say this as a Virginian.

And as a Virginian, you're raised to think that Virginia is not just the greatest state in the union, but the union wouldn't exist if it was not for Virginia.

You know, it's called the mother of presidents, you know, with Washington and Jefferson and even in the Civil War.

Right.

The leaders of both sides.

So Virginia takes a have are from small children are imbued with this love of the Commonwealth and how important it's been in history.