Bridge of Grace

Since the year 2007 the terrorist organization Hamas has ruled Gaza with an iron fist, and they clearly illustrated that they are the greatest enemy to the safety and liberty of the people of Gaza.  Hamas defector Mosab Hassan Yousef witnessed the true depravity of Hamas during the Second Intifada.  During that time, Hamas took millions of dollars from the Arab world and stole aid money sent by Western nations and used it to launch continuous attacks against Israelis.  Even worse, Hamas would deliberately stir up Palestinians to launch riotous attacks and then use unarmed Palestinians, even women and children, as human shields while they launched armed attacks. In truth, we are witnessing the exact same pattern unfolding in Gaza, with Hamas once again disrupting aid to further their agenda and using human shields to win the battle of propaganda.  In May of this year, Palestinian rioters, under direction from Hamas, attacked the Keren S...

There is no verse in the Qur'an that implies that the previous scriptures (The Torah, Psalms, & Gospel), have been corrupted.  Yet Muslims say it's corrupted because the Qur'an delivers a completely different message than that which is given by the Torah and Gospel.  So who do they blame for corruption?  Well they can't blame the Disciples of Jesus because the Qur'an confirms the Disciples, so they decide to blame the Apostle Paul.  In their minds, this can be done because Paul was not one of the original Disciples of Christ, and he had strong influence over the early church.  Yet, when Muslims attack Paul, they have a problem, because they're attacking both the Qur'an and classic Muslim scholars.   Surah 61:14- " O you who have believed, be supporters of Allah, as when Jesus, the son of Mary, said to the disciples, "Who are my supporters for Allah ?" The disciples said, "We are supporters of Allah ." And a faction of the Ch...

Omar Abdel-Rahman, known as The Blind Sheikh, dedicated much of his life to teaching violent Jihad against he world.  He supported Jihad against the government of Egypt in the 1970's, served with Osama bin Laden & Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, and eventually came to the U.S. in the early 1990's to encourage Muslims in the country to wage Jihad on America, a nation that he hated with a passion.  Despite repeated attempts to have him deported, Sheikh Rahman kept managing to find loopholes.  Over time, Rahman would become the mentor for several terrorists who carried out the 1993 WTC Bombing.  It was shortly after this that Sheikh Rahman was arrested and sent to Federal Prison, where he died in 2017.  However, Rahman was more than just a terrorist, he was also a very well educated Islamic scholar, and for a time served as a Professor of Qur'anic interpretation at the most prestigious Islamic University in the world: Al Azhar University of Cairo, Egypt.  This Un...

Many famous activists like Howard Zinn have been long-time supporters of nonviolence.  They believe that using violence against violence only creates and endless cycle of war and death.  He condemned the 9/11 attack, but in turn also condemned the U.S. bombing and incursion into Afghanistan as a response.  He condemns Palestinian terrorist attacks, but also condemns Israel's military response.  However, is condemning violence enough?  Shouldn't we also speak out against teachings and ideas that encourage violence?  Any right-thinking non-violent activist would say "Yes, absolutely!"  So then, why don't these activists speak out against the Islamist teachings that are inspiring Jihadists all over the world to carry out acts of violence?   Sadly, many of these same non-violent activists live in self-delusion.  They go along with the propaganda that the actions of these Jihadists have nothing to do with the teachings of Islam.  Th...

For over a millennia, the Coptic Christian Community of Egypt has been forced to live as a permanent under-caste in Egyptian society.  There was at no point during the past 1,000 years that the Coptic Christian Community enjoyed a period in which they were afforded full equality in the Islamic controlled nation.  Over the millennia, the Coptic Christians endured constant persecution coupled with a string of mass slaughters that occurred throughout the centuries.  Under the laws of Islamic conquest, all Jews and Christians living within the conquered nations were forced to live as dhimmis (under-castes), which essentially means you accept your conquest and inferior status, and any attempt to change this is considering an armed revolt and would justify your death. Though the Coptic Christians enjoyed a brief break from persecution during the time that the British Empire controlled the region, they never enjoyed full equality, and ever since the British withdraw, the Copti...

For the Coptic Christians of Egypt, the Arab Spring rapidly deteriorated into an ISIS Winter.  Due to the ongoing violence perpetrated against the Coptic Christians by the Muslim Brotherhood & their Salafist allies, over 100,000 Coptic Christians fled the country.  In some areas of the country, such as the Sinai region, the situation has deteriorated so badly that a massive ethnic cleansing campaign is underway.   After the Arab Spring, ISIS inspired gunmen have targeted the Cop tic Christians for attack throughout the Sinai.  These terrorists have targeted Coptic Christians in their homes, in the streets, even in restaurants.  Hundreds of families fled their homes to seek refuge in local churches or in other areas of the country.  Since 2011, thousands of Coptic Christians have fled from the Sinai due to the threat of ISIS.  Prior to the Arab Spring, there were over 5,000 Coptic Christians living in the Sinai.  Now...

When two American Missionaries by the name of Martin & Gracia Burnham were kidnapped by the Philippine Islamist Terrorist Group, Abu Sayyaf, they were held hostage for over a year.  During that time, that had to chance to speak to the terrorists, to hear their stories, and understand their desires.  The Abu Sayyaf essentially want to do to the Southern Philippine Islands what the Taliban did to Afghanistan, but it will not stop there.  In their conversation with Abu Sayyaf leader Ustedz Khayr, he explained to the Burhams that once they had the southern islands of the Philippines, they would push on to the central islands, then the northern ones.  After all of the Philippines was under Islamic Sharia, they would push on to Thailand and keep going until the world was under Sharia.  Thus, there would be no end to this conflict regardless of any treaty that the Philippine government offered.  This testimony should serve as a lesson to world leaders who...