Bridge of Grace

On New Years Eve of 2015, over 1200 German women were sexually assaulted, mostly in Cologne, but also in other German cities.  It is estimated that over 2000 perpetrators took part in these assaults.  They ranged from purse-snatching, pulling off clothes, groping, and in several dozen cases, rape.  Even a Cologne police woman was groped.  Who were the perpetrators?  Well of the 153 arrested. only four were German citizens.  The rest were illegal immigrants or "asylum seekers" from the Middle East and North Africa that the nation of Germany welcomed as refugees.   Not surprisingly, the pro-immigrant mayor of Cologne, Henriette Reker, tried to dismiss this as a "cultural misunderstanding."  However, there was no misunderstanding.  The mass abuse of women by Muslim men is not about "confusion."  These men knew what they were doing.  For over 2000 men to conduct such a widespread sexual assault in one night required ca...

The Middle East is witnessing a phenomenal refugee crisis.  Not since the end of the Second World War has such a catastrophic refugee crisis existed.  Refugees by the millions are pouring into Europe.  Many of whom are people desperately fleeing the conflicts that have ravaged Syria and Iraq, while others seek to escape the increasingly unstable nations of Somalia, Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia.  However, are all those who are coming over actually seeking a safe haven, or is there something much more sinister at work?  I recall on many occasions watching these refugees land on the shores of Europe, and I notice an alarming trend:  Many of them are young men of fighting age.  I see a serious shortage of the number of women and children who are seeking refuge.  This has not gone unnoticed.  Eurostat, the official statistical analysis bureau of the European Union admitted that of the applicants for asylum seekers in the year 2015, 80% of the applica...

When people today think of the refugees of the 1948 War for Israeli Independence, most think of the 700,000 Palestinian Arabs who were displaced by the conflict.  Although few mention that most of these Arab refugees left their homes by their own free will, often at the urging of their Arab leaders so they they could clear the way for the armies of Six Arab nations to drive the Jews into the Sea.  However, what many people don't know is that after the 1948 War, over 850,000 Jews were expelled from nations such as Morocco, Egypt, Algeria, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon, Tunisia, & Libya.  It's also worth noting that none of these Jewish refugees received any reparation or right of return, nor did they have a special UN agency created to help them.  Yet, we don't have a "Jewish refugee crisis." Interesting, isn't it? Many don't know it, but the Jewish communities of the Arab world were some of the oldest Jewish communities in history.  Some of the comm...

In May of 2009, two Christian women by the name of Maryam Rostampour and Marziyeh Amirizadeh were arrested by the infamous Iranian Revolutionary Guard.  Their crime was being Christian.  Both women were born into Muslim families, but both became disenchanted with Islam at a young age as they simply say the Islamic faith as being  all about meaningless rules and religious laws.  There was no chance to build a relationship with God.  They both began to seek answers in other faiths, and after much studying and soul searching, they converted to Christianity.   In Iran, to leave Islam for Christianity can lead to imprisonment, or even death.  However, these courageous young women not only converted, but they began to share to Gospel with other Iranians, an action that could have easily gotten them killed.  Nevertheless, many in Iran, especially women, are disgusted with the harshness of Sharia Law and are growing increasingly disencha...

"Jerry's" story is a tragic one, but it is one that is all too familiar in the nation of Pakistan.  "Jerry" was once a professor at a private college with a wife and three children, "Jerry's" entire life was destroyed when another professor  claimed he said something wrong about Muhammad.   This professor heard a conversation between "Jerry" who is a Christian, another Christian, and a Shia Muslim.  During the conversation, "Jerry" stated "No Blind Man can Lead the Way."  The professor who overheard assumed that they three of them were talking about Muhammad, the founder of Islam.  He immediately went to the police and accused them of blasphemy.  The tragic truth was, none of them were talking about Muhammad, or even bringing up their respective faiths.   Nevertheless, the authorities did not care.  "Jerry" and his two colleagues were arrested for blasphemy.   He not only lost his job, but he spent over...

EGYPT'S COPTIC CHRISTIANS FACE UNPRECEDENTED REPRISALS FROM THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD   Islamists have been assaulting Coptic Christians since the 2011 revolution that overthrew  the dictator Mubarak.   Islamist mobs have torched schools and businesses owned by Christians and looted churches throughout country.  This violent campaign of killing and arson only intensified after the military coup that ousted President Mohammed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood government. The Muslim Brotherhood were the ones who called for aggression against Christians. They are responsible," said the Rev. Khalil Fawzi, a pastor at Kasr El Dubarrah Evangelical Church, “Either they are in control or they burn Egypt.”   In the seven weeks following Morsi’s oust form power, his supporters have burned at least 44 churches and ransacked more than 20 Christian institutions throughout Egypt.  The most shocking assault against Christians occurred at ...

"OCCUPIED TERRITORIES": WHAT ABOUT CYPRUS, KASHMIR, TIBET? by Douglas Murray   The EU is supporting divesting from Israeli companies that operate in the West Bank, lever mind the fact that a Senior PA official opposed this, stating: "It's not just Israeli companies that are going to be hit economically, it's also going to be disastrous economically and socially for the Palestinian community."  However, one must also ask this: What about Cyprus? What about the other nations in the World with Border Disputes? There is at least one major one on China's borders [Tibet]. And there is the rather famous one which borders Pakistan [Kashmir]. Border disputes are hardly unusual, the unresolved dispute involving Morocco over the status of the Western Sahara is yet another example. Yet all these countries have full, if not fawning, diplomatic and trade relations with the EU. What makes the EU's latest double-standard even more blatant is that th...