Opinion

Christianity Faces a Middle Eastern Exodus

But theses churches have never stopped shrinking, in early times because of conversions to Islam to escape discrimination or worse, and more recently from...

Why Bother: The New Isolationism

After two wars in the Middle East, Americans are as tired of our forces' being sent over there as Middle Easterners are of having...

Political Islam vs. Modernity

The conception of the modern state: modern Islamists are unable to understand or accept or even admire the modern state system, which is the...

Why Revolutionary Sunni Islamism is the World’s Greatest Strategic Threat and None of It Is Moderate

Some ask why I use the word “Islamism” and the reason is because this is a specific, conscious set of organized political movements. However...

Understanding the Muslim Brotherhood

But something happened to the GOP in the Bush years. For all the welcome understanding that Bill Clinton was wrong -- that the jihad...

EU Doesn’t Care About the Fate of Christians in the Middle East, Says Beirut Patriarch

Interview with His Beatitude Ignatius Ephrem Joseph III., Patriarch of the Syriac Catholic Church in the Middle East and one of the seven Patriarchs...

Persecution of Christian Copts in Egypt on Rise as Muslim Brotherhood Consolidates Power

On August 14, 2012, a publication called El Fegr posted a copy of a letter inciting violence against Christians. The title of the letter...

The Muslim Brothers Take Over Egypt

As each day passes, the Muslim Brothers are consolidating their power and shaping a government that looks less and less like a liberal democracy....

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