Dr Yassir Eric on Islam

 Dear Friends,

I was invited by a friend to attend a meeting on 10/20/2025 at a Church in Plano.  The speaker was Dr. Yassir Eric, a bishop in the Anglican Church who was raised a Muslim and became a Christian.

 

His talk was amazing on very many levels.  I will give you some highlights in summary.  He was born in Sudan.  He was raised to hate both Christians and Jews.  In his school there was a Christian boy and the speaker and his friends beat the Christian boy so badly that they thought he was dead when they left him.  Dr. Yassir Eric eventually converted to Christianity and he adopted the name "Eric" in honor of the man who converted him.

Dr. Eric's grandfather was the head of the Muslim Brotherhood in Sudan.  His uncle was the chief of the secret police.  When his uncle went to murder a priest, the priest preached the gospel to the chief of the secret police, touched his heart and converted him to Christianity.  Yassir's grandfather had his uncle executed for becoming a Christian.  Later Yassir was converted.  He was imprisoned for two years.  When he was released, this family declared him dead and buried an empty coffin and put up a tombstone with his name on it.  He fled the country, going to Germany where he was educated in theology.  He is now the Right Reverend Dr Yassir Eric.

He explained Islam to us a bit, explaining that it is nothing like our idea of religion.

He explained that in the West, religion is only a part of our lives.  In Islam, their lives are only a part of the Islamic system.  Islam is a collectivist system.  There is no "I" in Islam, there is only "we."  Islam is all encompassing.

Islam is an economic system, a judicial system, a military system, Islam is everything.  Here in the West we really do not understand Islam.  Remember that his grandfather was head of the Muslim Brotherhood in Sudan.  Dr. Yassir Eric knows what he is talking about.  Islam might be a threat, but Muslims are people we should love and pray for.

Dr. Yassir Eric talked about Muslims converting to Christianity.  I was very surprised to hear that our Lord Jesus Christ is appearing in dreams to Muslims and calling them to Him, and they are seeking Jesus and becoming converted.  The stories he told of conversions were amazing.  

Jesus Christ lives and he is personally seeking the lost in the middle east and drawing them to him.  Dr. Yassir Eric said that the fastest growing Christian Church in the world is in Iran.

He spoke for hours and was amazing.  I only provided a few highlights from his talk.  He emphasized how important it is that we cling to Jesus and preach the message of Jesus.

I was so amazed, I was so moved, that I cannot express the feelings I experienced nor convey properly how important it is that we really practice our faith in Jesus Christ.  A Christian church should not be just another social club.  Christianity contains the power of transformation and salvation, and too often people forget that.  Dr. Yassir Eric  not only opened my eyes to Islam, but fanned the flames of my faith.  It was a moving night and I am so grateful to Christ Church on Legacy for bringing Dr. Yassir Eric to Plano.

I hope you found my account of the presentation of some value to you.

Robert 

Comparing Venegoni and Kallas for JP4

 Dear Friends,

The incumbent judge in the Justice of the Peace Court, precinct 4, JP4 for short, is Vincent Venegoni.  He is being challenged for this position by the First Vice-Chair of the CC GOP, Stephen Kallas.  Let's do some comparisons.

Comparisons

Vincent Venegoni is a successful retired businessman.  He owned and ran a security consulting company with hundreds of employees and worked for significant customers.  In interviewing him, I discovered that we had both done work for the same government agency.  I have signed so many secrecy contracts that I don't want to mention the name of that agency, but I can say that world class work is done by that agency and I am impressed by the caliber of work that Vincent Venegoni has done in the private sector.  

Business is hard.  If you have ever tried to start a business, you know how hard it is to be successful.  I don't see evidence of this type of success in the history of Stephen Kallas.  One precinct chair who was doing her own vetting discovered this on the internet and shared it with me:

You can read the details at this website and make your own decisions:

https://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/dodge-city-of-mckinney/mckinney-texas-75070/dodge-city-of-mckinney-stephen-kallas-scott-spindle-gus-rodriguez-lie-cheat-shade-tree-720807#comment_1

You can say, "that is just a fluke."  There is a more detailed example of a major failure by Mr. Kallas in this article "Kallas's failure" (https://voteforcanright.blogspot.com/2025/10/kallass-failure.html). The gist of the article is this: he was given an important assignment and the assignment ended in failure.  All the work that went into the "Temporary Election Review Committee" (TERC) went down the drain.  How can Stephen Kallas manage the decisions of a Justice of the Peace Court if he could not manage the Temporary Election Review Committee (TERC) report?  A report for heaven's sake!

You need to understand that the Justice of the Peace does more than sit in judgement.  The Justice of the Peace (JP) manages the court, which has employees and a lot of processes and procedures to follow.  The JP is a manager as well as a judge.  Judge Vincent Venegoni has successfully managed his security consulting company.  We don't see evidence of this level of success in Mr. Kallas's career.

The Judge in Action

I spent a couple of days in the courtroom, observing how the court works.  You must understand that the JP is a judge and makes decisions that affect people's lives.  Here is Judge Venegoni in court.

What I saw in visiting the court was that there is a lot of paperwork associated with each case and Judge Venegoni had studied all the cases and was prepared. At the beginning of each day's work, the judge explained to all the defendants how the court worked, what were the key issues of the cases that they as a group were facing, and what their options were if they were unhappy with his decisions.  He was respectful and informative to the defendants, most of them representing themselves.

I was impressed at how complicated some of the cases became as they unfolded.  The court cases are people's lives and they sometimes become complicated.  Judge Venegoni dealt with the complexities by asking detailed questions of the defendants and the plaintiffs.  I was very impressed by his knowledge and by his humane behavior to the defendants.  Even if a defendant had a case that seemed "open-and-shut," Judge Venegoni listened carefully and asked questions.  The defendants were heard by the whole courtroom, they were listened to attentively by the Judge so that the defendants' side of the story was clearly understood.  The judge was respectful and sensitive to the defendants.

Vetting with Other Precinct Chairs

I told you how one precinct chair discovered the "Ripoff Report" on the internet when considering Mr. Kallas's candidacy for JP4 and shared it with me.  The precinct chairs share information with each other. Over coffee one day I heard a precinct chair describe Mr. Kallas as a bully and a thug.  I have to say that I was stunned when I heard this description.  

I searched my memory and I think it was the April 8, 2024 Executive Committee (EC) meeting when either Colleen Epstein or John Donovan made a motion to vote on the calendar so that the precinct chairs would know when the EC meetings would be held so they could arrange their business travel plans in order to attend.  Stephen Kallas took the microphone away from them and tried to end the meeting without a vote on the motion.  When John Donovan tried to use the microphone, there were many eyewitnesses who say that they saw Stephen Kallas push John and Colleen, and there were videos of the incident.   Maybe this incident was why the PC called Stephen Kallas a thug.  That's a harsh word that I would not have used, but I understand that viewpoint.

When have I seen bullying behavior by Mr. Kallas?  At a Rules Committee meeting I heard a member of the TERC ask the Rules Committee if they could force Mr. Kallas to follow the rules for issuing a majority report.  Mr. Kallas told that lady that she was off the committee because she disagreed with him.  The majority of the committee disagreed with Mr. Kallas, which is why there were two reports, the majority report and Mr. Kallas's report.

Is trying to throw a lady off the TERC because she disagreed with him an act of bullying?  How about if he yelled at her when he was trying to throw her off the committee?  Was ignoring the rules of committees and issuing his personal report as the official report an act of bullying?  Business becomes chaotic and unclear when you don't follow the rules.  Comparing Mr. Kallas's behavior towards the majority of the TERC I am reminded of these words from the Ripoff Report (grammar and spelling is unchanged):

"I brought my vehicle to have it services although I had a service plan Stephen argued with me for 30 minutes that I did Not.  After I called 2 other ligitimate [sic] Dodge Stores they pulled it right up in the Dodge System."

Are illegitimate arguments bad logic or bullying or just bad form?  Mr. Kallas seemed to use bad arguments at the car dealership and with the Temporary Election Review Committee.  That looks like a repeated pattern of either bad judgment or bad reasoning.  I shudder at the thought of Mr. Kallas sitting on the bench as a judge and making decisions affecting people's lives.

Judge Vincent Venegoni is a successful retired business man who is Justice of the Peace because he is civic minded and wants to serve the public.   We are lucky that he is willing to continue to serve.

Thank you for your patience,  

Robert