Bridge of Grace

Masih Alinejad is a 45-year-old Iranian journalist and human rights activist who was publicly spoken out against the Iranian regime.  Her campaign gained supporters from all over the world and enabled her to meet man prominent figures who expressed support for her efforts, individuals such as former Secretary of state Mike Pompeo and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.  In addition to publicly speaking and publishing many articles opposing Iran, Masih wrote a book detailing her struggle entitled The Wind in My Hair.    However, history has long proved that tyrants will do everything in their power to silence their dissidents, and Iran is no exception.   For years, Iran waged a smear campaign seeking to discredit Masih, but they have not stopped there.  In 2021, the FBI revealed that they foiled a plot by Iran to kidnap Masih.  The FBI stated that four Iranian agents had been following Masih's movement for a year and plotted to try a...

On July 21st, 29-year-old Sania Khan was preparing to leave Chicago and begin a new chapter of her life in Chattanooga Tennessee.  Tragically, this was not to be as she was found dead, shot in the back by her estranged husband in the condo that the two once shared.  A Pakistani-American who took great joy in her work as a photographer, Sania was married to 36-year-old Raheel Ahmed after courting each other for five years.  However, the relationship was mostly long-distance, which did not allow Sania to understand the full truth about Raheel prior to marrying him.  Sadly, it was not a happy marriage as Raheel suffered from significant mental health issues that turned their relationship into an abusive one.  Sania ultimately decided the the only recourse was divorce.   Divorce was something that she was reluctant to do as women of South-Asian Islamic communities often suffer great stigma in their communities if they seek to divorce their husbands, no mat...

Salman Rushdie, author of the book "The Satanic Verses" was recently stabbed 15 times by 24-year-old Jihadist Hadi Matar when he was about to give a speech at an event in Chautauqua, New York.  Rushie's book, published in 1988, was considered a controversial & satirical account of the life of Muhammad, the founder of the Islamic faith.  It led to an uproar in the Islamic world.  Many Islamic nations banned his book, violent riots broke out, and Ayatollah Khomeini eventually placed a $3 million dollar Fatwa on his head.  The ongoing threats forced Salman to live his life in lockdown.  However, he remained a vocal supporter of free speech and continued to advocate for it.   Yet even now, 30 years later, we see that his life is still filled with danger at ever turn.  As Rushdie prepared to give a talk about free speech at the Chautauqua Institution, Hadi Mater rushed to stage and stabbed Rushdie 15 times.  Though Rushdie is expected to survi...

In June of 2022, 21-year-old Egyptian college student Naria was brutally stabbed to death.  Naria was riding on a public bus on her way to Mansoura University to taker her college finals.  She hoped that after she graduated that she could pursue a career as a flight attendant.  However, unbeknownst to her, a spurned suiter by the name of Mohamed Abdel was stalking her.  Naria had previous rejected Mohamed's advances toward her, and what was Mohamed's response?  Kill her.  As Naria prepared to get off of the bus, Mohamed attacked her with a concealed knife, stabbing her repeatedly before brutally slitting her throat ( Link to Article ).   Many in Egypt were horrified by the murder and Naria's family is demanding justice.  However, what happened to Naria is sadly not uncommon.  In Sept. of 2019, 22-year-old Pakistani school teacher Farwa Shakeel was killed by a spurned suiter.  Four days after Naria's murder, Jordanian college st...

When ISIS crossed the border from Syria into Iraq, they showed the world that the goals of Jihadists are not restricted by national borders.  They pay no heed to them because their goal is not defined by declared state borders.  Their goal is to create a Caliphate that spans the globe, and they will stop at nothing to do this.  Those who think this goal is just and "ISIS Thing" and not an overcall goal by all Jihadist forces, only need to look at West Africa to see that this is not the case.  Jihadist groups like Boko Haram, ISIS, and Al-Qaeda have not only been carrying out ongoing attacks against Nigeria, but they've been attacking the surrounding nations as well, including Burkina Faso. In the most recent attack, Jihadist militants carried out a massacre in the town of Seytenga in Northern Burkina Faso, killing at least 55 people.  It was the worst attack in this region since June of last year when a similar attack killed 160 people.  Sadly, these are no...

Shabir Ahmed was a child sex trafficker in England who was convicted of two counts of rape, one count of sexual assault, trafficking, and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a minor ( Link to Article ).  For his horrendous crimes, Shabir was sentenced to 22 years in prison in 2012.  Shabir Ahmed was revealed to be a key link to the "Rochdale Grooming Gang" that is estimated to have sexually abused up to 1400 young girls from 1997-2013.  Shabir and 18 other members of the gang were convicted of multiple offenses.  However, this case not an isolated one.  Throughout England numerous grooming gangs, mostly of Pakistani-Muslim origin, have been convicted in engaging in numerous sex trafficking operations involving young British girls.   During the time of Shabir's involvement in the grooming gang of Rochdale, he worked as a taxi cab driver as well as a welfare officer in the Oldham Pakistani Community Center.  Despite numerous accusations of ...

Many in the world have been made aware of the ongoing Jihadist attacks on Christians in Nigeria.  Incidents such as the abduction of the 276 Chibok Girls in April of 2014 (100 are still missing) and the St. Francis Church Massacre during the Holy Day of Pentecost in June 2022 have been reported by media outlets all over the world.  However, there are many massacres and abductions that are not being reported by the mainstream media.  One of the most recent attack took place against a Catholic Mass and Baptist Service in Kano Nigeria on Sunday, June 19.  The attack claimed the lives of 8 people and an additional 38 were kidnapped by the Jihadist terrorists ( Link to Article ).   This attack is only one of many to strike the Kano region where terrorists groups such as Boko Haram have been targeting Christians as well as Muslim opponents them for decades.  One of the worst attacks in Kano took place in Nov. of 2014 when Boko Haram Terrorists and Suicide bo...