Bridge of Grace

Ebay has now enacted a new policy in which items deemed "offensive to Muslims" will not be allowed on Ebay.  Some want to say that Ebay is trying to promote "religious tolerance."  However, Ebay is in truth submitting to Shariah Law.  How is this?  We there are three major factors we need to consider. Fact #1: Ebay has no official policy in its bylaws about "not offending Muslims."  When an item is put up for bidding on Ebay and somebody bids on that item, than the bidder has entered into a contract with the seller.  Unless this contract is violating a written policy, then Ebay has no authority to interfere with that policy.  Already items that have been put up on Ebay for bidding have been shut down for "offending Muslims" even though there is no official policy in the Ebay bylaws forbidding this.  Thus Ebay is illegally breaking a contract between two other parties.   Fact #2: Ebay will not be able to clearly define what is "offensive"

Years ago I read the book "Left to Tell" by Rwandan Genocide Survivor Immaculee Ilibagiza.  In 1994, Immaculee watched her entire world fall apart.  Though she endured persecution for being a Tutsi, she never imagined that evil would consume  her nation, that her parents, siblings, even infant cousins would be slaughtered by her fellow countrymen.  For almost the entire genocide Immaculee hid in the bathroom of a Hutu Pastor with seven other women, and she could hear the killers right outside.  So many of the killers  were her former friends and neighbors.   They knew her name, she could hear the looking for her.  She heard one of the killers screaming “I have killed 399 cockroaches, Immaculee will make 400.   It’s a good number to kill.”    Every day she heard the hateful chant: " Kill the Tutsis big and small, kill them, kill them, kill them all!”    I could not even begin to understand Immaculee's fear, her anger.  To have to hide helplessly while your neighbors s

The Christian village of Sheranish in the Zakho province of Iraqi-Kurdistan has been devastated by airstrikes by the Turkish military aimed at the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), which has been engaged in an ongoing militant campaign to create an autonomous Kurdish State in present day Turkey.   Villager Amir Nissan testified that Turkey has relentlessly bombed the region, leading to widespread destruction of the local farms, and bombs have even fell on the village itself, forcing most of the local residents to flee.  Many of the villagers were refugees who fled from Baghdad and other areas of the nation to try and escape the ongoing violence, but now the violence has forced them to flee again.   Turkey has defended its actions, claiming that they're trying to stop the militant PKK, who has been fighting their nation nation for decades and is considered by many nations (including the U.S.), to be a terrorist organization.  However, many of the villagers are complaining that their vill

  I have long been a vocal opponent of the Islamic Blasphemy Laws that pervade in nations like Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan, one must remember that many faiths around the world have had a dark past with this issue, and Christianity is no exception.  For many years I read many cases in which Church leaders in Europe put thousands of accused blasphemers, Christian and non-Christian alike, to death.    Tragically, many of those executed never even said anything against the Christian faith.  Quite the contrary, they were trying to uphold its true teachings and were challenging corrupt church leaders who distorted the teachings of Jesus for their own selfish gain.  Such individuals include William Tyndale, who was martyred for translating the Bible to English.  Jan Hus, who was burned at that stake in 1415 for opposing the practice of churches selling indulgences (A corrupt practice in which people paid clergy to grant them absolution for their sins, an act that went directly against t

 In January of 2015, two Jihadist Gunmen opened fire and killed a dozen people at the Charlie Hebdo magazine office in Paris.  A third Jihadist killer then murdered a police officer and four others at a nearby Jewish market.  The attack set off a wave of Jihadist attacks across France that killed over 250 people.  Too many in the media and the mainstream are under the delusion that these are "lone-wolf attacks."  Nothing can be further from the Truth.  The Charlie Hebdo attack was a well-planned, well coordinated attack.  It wasn't done by a couple of sociopaths who somehow managed to get possession of some guns.  It was a well-thought out, targeted assault.  The fact that 14 additional people are now on trial for alleged connections to this crime (three are being tried in absentia ), is living proof of this. All of the accused defendants are being charged with numerous offenses which range form providing weapons to the killers to providing logistical support.  French pro