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More proof of human intolerance and hatred for what some of us can't and don't want to understand:
3 U.S. missionaries slain in Yemen
JIBLA, Yemen, Dec. 30 — MSNBC News — A gunman described by authorities as a Muslim extremist entered a Baptist missionary hospital early Monday and opened fire on American employees attending a staff meeting, killing three and seriously wounding a fourth. The killer was able to sneak a rifle into the building by hiding it under his coat “as if he were cradling a baby,” Jerry Rankin, president of the Southern Baptist International Mission Board, said at a news conference in Richmond, Va.
The suspected attacker, a Yemeni identified as Ali Abdul Razak Kamel was arrested moments after the shooting at Jibla Baptist Hospital, Rankin said.
A Yemeni official told Reuters that Kamel, 30, told police he shot the Americans because they were Christian missionaries and he wanted to “cleanse his religion and get closer to God.”
The Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board, on its Web site, described the hospital in Jibla as an 80-bed facility that “provides medical care for a wide area of the country.” It said in addition to their work at the hospital, missionaries taught English and clinical skills at a nearby Yemeni nursing school.
Rankin said that the missionaries were “very respectful” of Yemen’s largely Muslim populace and were prohibited from attempting to convert Yemenis to Christianity.
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This is sad. Killing innocent people who are providing desperately needed help because they are not of Islam is clear evidence to the level of perversion that exists in the extreme end of the Muslim world. Much as I would love to see Al Queda exterminated, it is not a task that can be accomplished, at least by the west. It is up to the Muslim world itself to repudiate the indiscriminate violence that is making a mockery of Islam. That most of the Muslim world is paying tacit lipservice to this end shows that their priorities are seriously out of order. And that's putting it mildly.
We can only hope that sanity can somehow triumph over hatred, ignorance and chaos.
Memo to Osama bin Laden and his deranged followers: be careful for what you wish for. If you enjoy famine, squalor and disease, you may yet have your dreams fulfilled.
More proof of human intolerance and hatred for what some of us can't and don't want to understand:
3 U.S. missionaries slain in Yemen
JIBLA, Yemen, Dec. 30 — MSNBC News — A gunman described by authorities as a Muslim extremist entered a Baptist missionary hospital early Monday and opened fire on American employees attending a staff meeting, killing three and seriously wounding a fourth. The killer was able to sneak a rifle into the building by hiding it under his coat “as if he were cradling a baby,” Jerry Rankin, president of the Southern Baptist International Mission Board, said at a news conference in Richmond, Va.
The suspected attacker, a Yemeni identified as Ali Abdul Razak Kamel was arrested moments after the shooting at Jibla Baptist Hospital, Rankin said.
A Yemeni official told Reuters that Kamel, 30, told police he shot the Americans because they were Christian missionaries and he wanted to “cleanse his religion and get closer to God.”
The Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board, on its Web site, described the hospital in Jibla as an 80-bed facility that “provides medical care for a wide area of the country.” It said in addition to their work at the hospital, missionaries taught English and clinical skills at a nearby Yemeni nursing school.
Rankin said that the missionaries were “very respectful” of Yemen’s largely Muslim populace and were prohibited from attempting to convert Yemenis to Christianity.
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This is sad. Killing innocent people who are providing desperately needed help because they are not of Islam is clear evidence to the level of perversion that exists in the extreme end of the Muslim world. Much as I would love to see Al Queda exterminated, it is not a task that can be accomplished, at least by the west. It is up to the Muslim world itself to repudiate the indiscriminate violence that is making a mockery of Islam. That most of the Muslim world is paying tacit lipservice to this end shows that their priorities are seriously out of order. And that's putting it mildly.
We can only hope that sanity can somehow triumph over hatred, ignorance and chaos.
Memo to Osama bin Laden and his deranged followers: be careful for what you wish for. If you enjoy famine, squalor and disease, you may yet have your dreams fulfilled.
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9:38 AM
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