Posted on 10/09/2006 10:36:54 AM PDT by Cowgirl
Donna Danna (9 Oct 2006) "Militants Kill Missionary Couple's 2 Children Who Refused To Convert To Islam"
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Saturday, October 7, 2006 Militants kill two children of a missionary couple in Pakistan
By Sheraz Khurram Khan Special Correspondent for ASSIST News Service in Pakistan http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/s06100040.htm
MUZAFFARABAD, PAKISTAN (ANS) -- In an horrific incident of Christian persecution on September 1, some unidentified militants slew two children of a missionary couple who is working with At Any Cost Jesus Mission, a underground ministry evangelizing to the Muslim nations.
A press release sent via e-mail to ANS by Any Cost Jesus Mission said that the assailants torched the dead bodies of teenaged children Shalom, 15 and Sharon 14 after murdering them brutally in the northern district of Pakistan. The teenaged victims according to the press release were secondary school students.
“Shalom and Sharon were kidnapped along with their missionary parents and two other younger sisters 10 days before the murder. The militants asked them to convert to Islam but they refused,” said the press release.
“So the militants killed Shalom first. Then they raped the girl and cut one of her breasts in front of her parents. She too died”, the press release quoted another underground missionary, Habel who it said broke the news to Any Cost Jesus Mission from a hidden place.
Police and the military forces are backing the militants. Habel and his family was also attacked and their house was burnt but the Lord enabled them to escape to a hidden place. They (militants) also demolished a church and some houses were set on fire too”, the evangelization ministry claimed in the press release.
According to the press release the militants set the motorbike on fire by spraying petrol on it and left the dead bodies in a ditch along with a motorbike.
“The police declared a false statement that it was an accident and the petrol tank of the bike was open when they fell into the ditch and burnt by a spark”, alleged Any Cost Jesus Mission.
The press release said that the believers are living in a grip of fear and trouble following the killing of Shalom and Sharon.
The ministry further claimed in the press release that the militants are not allowing believers to pray.
“They are not even allowed to speak a single word about Christ or Christianity or Christians”, the press release quoted Habel as saying.
The tribal people and their leaders are also being murdered by the terrorists in the Neelum Valley, it said.
By pointing out that I was refusing God's call...how would YOU know what God's call for me is?
You forgot the third choice for the Christian--answer God's call first, before you have a family that needs you, THEN have children and make their safety the primary focus of your life.
So do I. Between the beheadings they're so fond of & the fact they trace their roots back to Ishmael, that's the same conclusion I've come to as well. God help us all. We're going to need it.
Wouldn't you be so proud though to follow a religion that had to kill people to get them to convert?
That they don't get that shows that they really are alien beings.
But we had two Fox News correspondents who immediately caved. BTW, haven't heard much from them lately.
Thanks for your opinion. I disagree.
Praying for this couple.
I just don't want this thread to devolve into a "Its All the Parent's Fault" fest. There were several Muslim men involved who - by an odd societal reflex that we are all starting to share - are not being blamed for their actions. These are not hyenas or wolverines, but men. We have started to assume evil behaviour from Islamics (fair enough) - but I am terribly concerned that we have stopped blaming them for it. We must not treat Muslim peoples as a dangerous natural phenomena to be avoided. We must treat them - and punish them - as men.
Is there anything in your world worth dying for?
Is there anything in your world worth dying for?
Yes, indeed: my family, my friends, my country, ...
Best regards...
In their world, their Savior is worth dying for - I hold the killer's responsible, not the parents.
Absolutely - sorry for the possible inference.
Ah, those poor children.
+ Almighty God: may their blood, unjustly and infamously spilt, purify the benighted and devil-ridden land of Pakistan +
Or option three, wait to answer God's call until your children are adults. The God I know and love would understand. Flame away, but I too believe it is irresponsible parenting.
These bastards aren't just happy killing, torturing, and beheading people - but rape is their strongest accomplishment. Why would anyone try to convert these savages? I would bomb them all.
"Why would anyone try to convert these savages? I would bomb them all."
Well, we might see them as savages (And, indeed, many of them are, including the beasts responsible for these murders), but that doesn't change the fact that God still loves them, and wants to see them redeemed.
The key part is,,TO YOU.
God doesn't do things out of vengeance, he has a purpose in all things. You err when you apply human emotions to a non human God.
That's my 2 cts, I don't have confidence that you will be convinced. But it's important to raise opposition to such proclamations.
Peace.
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