I was sick to my soul when I heard this. It also sickens me to know that countless Iraqi Christians have been killed in this war -- being in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
Religion of peace destroys peace activists' hope into pieces.
One peace activist bites the dust and the world is safer.
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Oh, that's right...liberals are hypocrites.
'All we are saying is give peace a chance'
'All we are saying is give peace a chance'
'All we are saying is give peace a chance'
'All we are saying is give peace a chance'
'All we are saying is give peace a chance'
'All we are saying is give peace a chance'
'All we are saying is give peace a chance'
'All we are saying is give peace a chance'
'AHHHHHHHH by the beard of the prophet, may blessings and peace be upon him, I can stand it no longer. Mahmud, shoot the singing American'
I posted this thread the other day. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1593064/posts
The pastor in reference would fit in just fine in the CPT organization. When will these people learn?
The top question on the cpt site is: What would happen if Christians devoted the same discipline and self-sacrifice to nonviolent peacemaking that armies devote to war?
What happens to them? Like Tom has learned, they get tortured and murdered.
May he rest in peace.
This poor misguided soul was giving aid and comfort to the enemy and the enemy destroyed him. Maybe other peace-niks will learn the lesson that you can't deal with the devil.
From his sponsor:
Current Violence Reduction Projects
Arizona – a seasonal presence along the Arizona/ Mexico border since 2004. As part of a campaign to challenge U.S. immigration policies that result in hundreds of migrant deaths in the dessert every summer, team members conduct cross-border prayer vigils, remain alert to vigilante threats and monitor border patrol officers’ treatment of migrants.
Iraq – a Baghdad-based presence since October 2002. Team members accompanied the Iraqi people through the U.S.-led 2003 war and continue during the post-war occupation to expose abusive acts by U.S. Armed Forces and support Iraqis committed to nonviolent resistance.
CPT embraces the vision of unarmed intervention waged by committed peacemakers ready to risk injury and death in bold attempts to transform lethal conflict through the nonviolent power of God’s truth and love.
Prayers for his family,Guess Rush was wrong on this one.
"Dyin' ain't much of a livin', boy"
--The Outlaw Josey Wales
Nothing changed except our regards for the graciousness of his captors. Will anyone learn?
Quite frankly, given our forces track record of finding these hostages, I have begun to simply believe them dead once they are taken. It's not a knock against our men and women in uniform, they are simply not trained to find the proverbial needle in the haystack.
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
I may believe that this man was foolish for doing what he did, but I have to respect him for believing in something so much that he put his own life on the line.
Their (CPT) mantra is... Get In The Way! Well, he got in the way, and he got smoked. Fairly straight forward lesson. He underestimated the heinous nature of the enemy (EVIL personified.)
when I first heard about these four kidnappings,
my thought was, this could hve been staged.
I still think so.
...
free lance diplomats, human shields, etc.
just giving aid and comfort to the enemy
Are any of the people on FR who insisted this guy and his group faked their own kidnapping now going to admit they were wrong? Or just pile on about how he deserved it.
I found this in an email from a group I had used for reference once, preparing something for church, and have been getting email newsletters, which I never read, but this one said "Rememebering Tom Fox, so of course I opened it. Interesting, needless to say:
Tom's last journey
by Doug Pritchard
Our brother Tom has begun his final journey home.
He left Anaconda military base at Balat, Iraq, at dawn on Mar. 13 (9 p.m. EST, Mar. 12), and is expected to arrive at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware at 1 a.m. EST, Mar. 14.
CPT Toronto was originally informed by Canadian authorities at 1:30 p.m. EST Mar. 10, that a body had been found in Baghdad which was likely that of Tom Fox. An hour later, when the CPT Iraq team asked officials at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad if they could come to identify the body, they were told that it had already left on a military transport for Dover. Officials had repeatedly assured the team over the previous three months that CPT would be able to accompany our colleagues home "if at all possible." They now said that their only focus was getting the body back to the USA as soon as possible. At 8 p.m. EST, the U.S. State Department confirmed the identity as Tom Fox based on fingerprints.
The next day, Mar. 11, at 10 a.m. EST, CPT Iraq learned that Tom's body was still at the Anaconda base at Balat. The U.S. Embassy arranged for Beth Pyles, a member of the CPT Iraq team, to travel to Anaconda, and she was able to keep vigil with Tom for the next 36 hours until his departure. Meanwhile, CPT members Rich Meyer and Anne Montgomery travelled to Dover, and have been in the vicinity since 5 p.m. Mar. 11, keeping vigil and awaiting Tom's arrival.
Pyles was present on the tarmac at Anaconda as Tom's coffin was loaded onto the plane for Dover. She reported that his coffin was draped in a U.S. flag. This is unusual for a civilian, but Tom may not have been uncomfortable with this since he had always called his nation to live out the high ideals which it professed. Iraqi detainees who die in U.S custody are also transported to Dover for autopsies and forensics. On this plane, right beside Tom's coffin, was the coffin of an Iraqi detainee. So Tom accompanied an Iraqi detainee in death, just as he had done so often in life.
At Tom's departure, Pyles read out from the gospel of John, "The light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not overcome it" (1:5). In honour of Tom's Iraqi companion, she spoke the words called out repeatedly from the mosques of Baghdad during the Shock and Awe bombing campaign in March 2003, "allah akhbar" (God is greater). She concluded the sending with words from the Jewish scriptures, "The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD" (Job 1:21).
Dawn broke. The contingent of Puerto Rican soldiers nearby saluted. The plane taxied away. Venus, the morning star, shone brightly overhead as the night faded away. Godspeed you, Tom, on your final journey home to your family and friends.
Doug Pritchard is a co-director of Christian Peacemaker Teams.
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Then, there was this:
Remembering Tom Fox
by Celeste Kennel-Shank
Some said they wanted revenge. Others said they were trying to forgive those who took his life. Others came to pray tribute to their former friend and colleague.
In a discussion led by Tom Fox's colleagues and professors from Eastern Mennonite University's Center for Justice and Peacebuilding on Saturday night in Washington, D.C., participants pondered peace issues, response to Fox's death, and the possibility of reconciliation with those labeled enemies.
(But I'd need to register to read the article, and I'm not going to do that.)
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