WHY HOLY WAR…

After the recent tragedies in France – 130 people killed and 300 severely injured – after the bombing of a Russian Airbus killing another 224, after another 45 people killed in Beirut, and after all the other Islamic attacks in Paris, Brussels, London, Madrid, Tunisia...

Islam and Women’s Rights

If you’ve spent time in a Moslem country you’ve seen the huge gulf between the west and Islam regarding women. It is unimaginable what the world must be like behind veil, a burka, a black gown that heats you like an oven under the Middle East sun. Or to have your...

Islam and Women’s Rights

Islam and Women’s Rights by Mike Bond Anyone who has spent time in a Moslem country is aware of the huge gulf between the west and Islam regarding women. It is almost unimaginable what the world is like behind a veil, a burka, a black gown that heats you like an oven...

NEAR-DEATH ON THE THIRD RAIL: Home from the War

by Mike Bond Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has never seen war. It can kill you even when you’re far away. When you don’t want to die. I had come back from one of those ghastly, unending Middle East wars, this one in Lebanon. Beirut had been my...