Posted on 09/18/2006 6:34:45 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
NAIROBI, Kenya An elderly nun shot four times at the Somali hospital where she worked forgave her killers as she lay dying, colleagues said Monday in the wake of a murder that has focused attention on Islamic radicalism in the Horn of Africa country.
Sister Leonella, 65, muttered the words 'I forgive, I forgive' in Italian after being shot three times in the back by gunmen in an apparent execution-style killing, father Maloba Wesonga told The Associated Press at the nun's memorial mass in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on Monday.
Her murder the latest slaying of a foreigner in Somalia was not a random attack and could have been sparked by remarks by Pope Benedict XVI about Muslims that have sparked angry reaction from Muslims around the world, added Willy Huber, regional head of the Austrian-funded hospital where Sister Leonella worked.
The killing has once again turned the spotlight on the lawless Horn of Africa nation where a powerful, radical Islamic group, accused of having ties to al-Qaida, have all but wrested control of the country from the weak and factional Somali government.
With it has come a hardline Taliban-style rule complete with public floggings and executions. Its leaders have pledged to wage holy war against an African peacekeeping force which is supposed to arrive early next month to help stabilize the country.
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WINSTON CHURCHILL: How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.
The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceasedto be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.
-Sir Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages248-50 (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899).
No, but Inside Edition had a spot of a beautiful young woman with a lovely face who was a teacher and had converted to Islam. The story was about how 20,000 Americans convert each year. The MSM are enablers and a large part of the problem for not showing the ugly face behind the totalitarian facade of radical Islam.
time to relegate the sons and daughters of islam to the deep desert, if not the bosom of allah.
Sister Leonetta is an fine example of Radical Christianity. Forgiving those who killed her while she was engaged in her service of performing acts of mercy in a poverty stricken land.
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I believe Paul wrote about those who kill innocents and children that Jesus said they should be thrown into the sea with stone chains on their feet.
The blind forces of materialistic evolution could not have put a soul in us that cries out for justice, for the utter defeat of the Enemy of Mankind and for the glorious triumph of all that is merciful and beautiful and innocent and good. The love of justice in our souls comes from the Mind of God: the true God. Not the twisted entity that possesses the deluded hearts and lying lips of the mujaheddin and their perverse and murderous prophet.
The greatest honor a Catholic can give to our Lord is to die for Him and laying down his life for his brother as she has done all her adult life. She is happily with our Lord now, Deo Gratias.
BUMP your post! That well-reasoned thought would go straight past intellectually dishonest Rosie though.
Italian Nun Shot Dead by Somali Gunmen Posted on 09/17/2006 6:37:34 AM PDT by TaxachusettsMan
To: lentulusgracchus
"Good thing they shot her four times in the back.....otherwise she might have shot back with her rosary."
Sadly - she might have had the time to pray to God to forgive them their sins, and to personally forgive them herself!
29 posted on 09/17/2006 7:03:09 AM PDT by Dacus943
that would certainly put a bee in their burkhas.
There you go. Wouldn't take but one to level the place and rid the world of a few thousand followers.
Still, there's a part of me that hopes that Sister Leonella was related to some "family" members who haven't entirely given up the old ways.
Thanks for the quote.
They are so much like Nazis. There is no difference in their attitudes. They now believe "infidels" are like vermin. ONLY annihilation of their way of life and thinking will stop this.
This breaks my heart.
Amen.
This is so disgusting, it enrages me. I'm sure these cowardly animals had their faces covered when they killed her too.
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