Posted on 10/27/2015 4:25:38 AM PDT by marshmallow
Last Wednesday night October 21st, at my parish of the London Oratory, Fr Douglas Bazi gave a talk in St Wilfrid's hall, the long drawing room with dazzlingly high ceilings. Aid to the Church in Need have brought Fr Bazi from Iraq. He gave one of the most fascinating talks I've ever heard; it was both inspiring and heartbreaking. He says that if a young Catholic man in Iraq decides to become a priest, he knows he will be martyred, 'to be a priest in Iraq is a one way mission; you will be killed.'
Fr Bazi knows this viscerally; ISIS terrorists kidnapped him for nine days. He was driving in traffic, when two cars sidled up and blocked him. Chaining his hands, they took him to a toilet where he was kept for several days with the instruction, 'if you open your eyes, we will shoot you.' They starved him and gave him no water for four days. When he thought things were at their worst, Fr Bazi tried off-beat humour to show them they were not getting to him, and thus make them doubt their efforts to hurt him, by saying to the young men of ISIS, 'this is a picnic'. But he concedes that this was, 'a very bad idea' and only motivated the very young Islamic men to torture him more brutally. They went from chaining him to a toilet, to taking a hammer and breaking his back teeth and smashing a disc in his back. When he was alone, Fr Bazi would use the chains that bound him as a means of saying the Rosary, each link would be used to count Hail Mary's.
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Interesting that the Russians are the bad guys because they now ‘punish’ people with an $80 fine and up to 15 days in jail for ‘coming out’ (as in gay). Barely a word in the media regarding what happens to people that cross dress in Iraq or under ISIS.
D-mn that is hard core. May God bless you for your witness Fr Bazi.
“May God bless you for your witness Fr Bazi. “
INDEED! God Bless
“tried off-beat humour ... (but it) only motivated the very young Islamic men to torture him more brutally.”
Fanatics have no sense of humor.
Still, I would have tried a couple:
“I just flew in from Islamabad and Allah are my arms tired!”
Why did the jihadist cross the road?
So he could step on a land mine and get those virgins.
Islam must be destroyed.
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