There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
- Hamlet
Sometimes the atrocities trumpeted in the headlines cause us to miss small, meaningful events.....such as the following:
1. "....Islamic terrorism never seems to leave the front page. This week Taliban suicide fighters slaughtered about 20 students randomly at a university in Pakistan; a suicide bomber in Kabul killed seven; and a 1400-year old Christian monastery in Iraq was obliterated by ISIS.
2. .... it would be quite false to think that all Muslims endorse these atrocities. Some live up to the oft-quoted verse from the Qur’an: “if anyone saves a life, it shall be as though he had saved the lives of all mankind” (Surah 5, verse 32).
3. Such was Salah Farah, a 40-year-old Kenyan Muslim and a father of five children who died on Sunday evening at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi.
4. Farah was deputy headmaster at Mandera County Primary School in northern Kenya. On December 21 he was on a commuter bus on his way back from classes in Nairobi. At about 7am four terrorists from Al-Shabaab, a Somali group allied to al-Qaeda, sprang an ambush. The bus stopped.
5. The 60 passengers all knew what was going to happen next. In 2014 terrorists stopped another bus in the same region, divided the passengers by religion, and shot dead 28 non-Muslims.
But not this time.
6. The militants ordered the passengers off. “The women who were Muslims started removing their hijabs and lesos [decorative scarves] and handing them to the non-Muslims,” Farah recalled.
They were ordered into a field.
"We were told to separate — the Christians, this side, the Muslims, this side," Farah said.
But Farah and the others refused.
"We asked them to kill all of us or leave us alone. As we argued, they shot me.” He was hit by two bullets, one in his hip and the other in his abdomen. Three other men were shot as well; two died. But amazingly, the terrorists left without executing their plan." MercatorNet: “People should live peacefully together”
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
- Hamlet
Sometimes the atrocities trumpeted in the headlines cause us to miss small, meaningful events.....such as the following:
1. "....Islamic terrorism never seems to leave the front page. This week Taliban suicide fighters slaughtered about 20 students randomly at a university in Pakistan; a suicide bomber in Kabul killed seven; and a 1400-year old Christian monastery in Iraq was obliterated by ISIS.
2. .... it would be quite false to think that all Muslims endorse these atrocities. Some live up to the oft-quoted verse from the Qur’an: “if anyone saves a life, it shall be as though he had saved the lives of all mankind” (Surah 5, verse 32).
3. Such was Salah Farah, a 40-year-old Kenyan Muslim and a father of five children who died on Sunday evening at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi.
4. Farah was deputy headmaster at Mandera County Primary School in northern Kenya. On December 21 he was on a commuter bus on his way back from classes in Nairobi. At about 7am four terrorists from Al-Shabaab, a Somali group allied to al-Qaeda, sprang an ambush. The bus stopped.
5. The 60 passengers all knew what was going to happen next. In 2014 terrorists stopped another bus in the same region, divided the passengers by religion, and shot dead 28 non-Muslims.
But not this time.
6. The militants ordered the passengers off. “The women who were Muslims started removing their hijabs and lesos [decorative scarves] and handing them to the non-Muslims,” Farah recalled.
They were ordered into a field.
"We were told to separate — the Christians, this side, the Muslims, this side," Farah said.
But Farah and the others refused.
"We asked them to kill all of us or leave us alone. As we argued, they shot me.” He was hit by two bullets, one in his hip and the other in his abdomen. Three other men were shot as well; two died. But amazingly, the terrorists left without executing their plan." MercatorNet: “People should live peacefully together”
