Pope Benedict XVI

September 25, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Angela Merkel’s Ugly Romance With the Iranian Regime

Why Germany seeks to increase trade with a murderous theocracy bent on Israel’s destruction.

July 23, 2015 | Michael Ledeen

Radical Islam and the Culture War

What are we to do with radical Islam? Ever since 9/11, Western leaders have insisted that we are "not at war with Islam," have sometimes said that "Islam is a religion of peace" and bent over in...

February 17, 2015 | Michael Ledeen |

A Chance for Italy to Distinguish Itself

A new president has just taken office in Italy, but since the country only makes news when something bad or sexy—or both—happens, most readers north and west of the Alps probably won&...

January 9, 2015 | Thomas Joscelyn The Weekly Standard

Jihad Comes to Paris

The long arm of al Qaeda.

January 7, 2015 | Michael Ledeen PJ Media

Blockbuster Story. Spiked!

I had lunch yesterday with three gentlemen who are very well read, who follow the news attentively, and who would shudder to think they are victims of ideological censorship. Yet not one of them...

June 14, 2011 | National Review Online

Shroud of Turin

Turin, Italy — The Turin book fair this year features Israeli literature, and Israeli president Shimon Peres is coming to the opening ceremony next weekend. Lots of others will be there, to...

July 1, 2010 | |

Why Europe Loathes Israel

The widespread condemnation Europeans have expressed toward Israel after its commandos boarded the so-called peace flotilla on May 31 - and used force only when threatened with death - signals a...

June 30, 2010 | Benjamin Weinthal The Jewish Press |

Europe Will Never Forgive Israel For The Holocaust

As an Israeli psychoanalyst once noted with bitter irony, the Germans will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz. The corollary to this observation is that Europeans will never forgive the Israeli...

December 8, 2008 |

The Role of Consensus in the Contemporary Struggle for Islam

Jordan's King Abdullah II launched an ambitious project in November 2004 designed to address some of the thorniest theological issues currently facing Muslims. The project, known as the "Amman Message," expressly holds that non-Muslims can reasonably "expect certain things from Muslims" in the contemporary context, in which Muslims and non-Muslims have unprecedented contact.[i] The Amman Message was self-consciously launched against the backdrop of the "global war on terror," where predominantly stateless terror networks claiming allegiance to Islam have managed to drastically alter the geopolitical landscape.

December 26, 2006 | FrontPage Magazine

The Dark Fate of Christians Under Palestinian Rule

Having failed to bribe the Islamic Republic Iran out of its nuclear ambitions, the State Department is putting on its cheeriest face after Saturday’s Security Council resolution, imposing t...

September 30, 2006 | Commentary

Analysis on Zawahiri Tape

In its latest video, as-Sahhab TV production featured “Prime Minister” Dr Ayman Zawahiri addressing the Umma on matters of Jihad and aqida (doctrine). Or at least this was the image t...

September 27, 2006 | TCS Daily

Admit We’re Peaceful… or Else

Addressing a packed St. Peter's Square during his weekly general audience last Wednesday, Pope Benedict XVI revisited his September 12 lecture to academics at the University of Regensburg. T...

September 27, 2006 | FrontPage Magazine

Admit We’re Peaceful…or Else

Last week, speaking to a packed audience in St. Peter's Square, Pope Benedict XVI revisited his September 12 lecture to academics at the University of Regensburg. The pontiff explained that...

September 26, 2006 | National Review Online

Yes, Our Iraq Policy Has Helped al Qaeda Recruit…

Another day, another New York Times publication of classified information.  Another election cycle, another strategic intelligence-community leak transparently designed to affect th...

September 20, 2006 | Family Security Matters

What We Can Learn from a Medieval Dialogue

Amid all the metaphorical smoke arising from the, alas, very real flames of hatred that some Muslim fanatics have managed to kindle out of Pope Benedict XVI's lecture to academics at the Uni...

September 19, 2006 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service

Submit or Die

Many commentators have pointed out the apparent hypocrisy: Muslims are outraged by cartoons satirizing Islamic extremism while in Muslim countries Christianity and Judaism are attacked viciously...

April 20, 2005 | Indianapolis Star |

Benedict Should Face Off with Persecutors of his Flock

By: Dr. Walid Phares. As soon as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected pontiff, the new Pope Benedict XVI fell in the crosshair of a highly politicized media around the world, a...