On tonight's broadcast, Michael Collins Piper, correspondent for American Free Press (see americanfreepress.net) was joined by Mark Glenn (of crescentandcross.com) and Hesham Tillawi (of currentissues.tv) to discuss the controversy surrounding recent remarks by Pope Benedict that have inflamed the Muslim world. Piper—whose father was a member of a devout Roman Catholic Irish-American family—and Tillawi (a Palestinian American Muslim)—and Glenn (a Roman Catholic of partial Lebanese Christian Arabic descent) all agreed that the Pope's comments appeared to be the work of Zionist influence inside the Vatican, designed to cast an appearance that the Catholic Church is aligned against the Muslim world. Ironically, as all noted, there is more commonality between Islam and Christianity than there is between Christianity and Judaism (mass media propaganda notwithstanding). Piper expressed his opinion, coming from a position generally supportive of the Roman Catholic Church, that—for some 40 years, since the days of the Vatican II conclave—the Roman Catholic Church and the various Popes have been involved in a multi-level chess game with global Zionist influence. The Zionists have used their media power to try to push the Roman Catholic church in a direction supportive of Zionist interests, despite the fact that there remain many traditional, genuine Catholics at all levels within the church who are opposed to Zionist influence. In the meantime,elements within the Church that do oppose Zionism are often forced to "play ball" with the Zionists to preserve what influence the church does have on a global level. Now, however, that the Zionists are determined to make a final push for a New World Order, a key facet of which involves the destruction of the foundation of the Islamic faith and the evisceration of Muslim republics around the globe, they are determined to push the Catholic Church into the center of the conflict and use it as a wedge against Islam. Mark Glenn predicted, with trepidation, that some act of violence against the Vatican or some Catholic leader—such as the Pope—may be utilized by the Zionists (blaming it on "the Muslims") to intensify Catholic opposition to Islam and the Muslim people. Piper, Glenn and Tillawi encouraged grassroots Christians (particularly Catholics) and Muslims to avoid allowing the mass media to provoke a "clash of civilizations)—particularly between Catholics and Muslims—which could spark a world war.