Posted on 12/06/2015 8:21:32 PM PST by BeadCounter
The remembrances came from the lips of children and their parents Saturday night at a North Hollywood community center run by the Assyrian American Association of Southern California.
That's where the Assyrian Scouts meet weekly and where Bennetta Betbadal was their leader and teacher.
"She was very sweet and committed to what she was doing," said Angelica Bitmallou, 12. "She really liked teaching. She always had a smile on her face."
Angelica was among the boys and girls who are members of Assyrian Scout Troop 6732. A Scout Christmas party had been planned for Saturday. Instead, they and their parents chose to celebrate Betbadal's life and the meaning of Christmas.
Betbadal, said Scout Master Klay Gorgin, was the first to volunteer to help with camping trips and outings. She taught the children the ancient Assyrian language through song and other ways to make it easy for them. She treated all the Scouts, boys and girls, like her own.
"Anytime we needed something," Gorgin said, "she was a phone call away."
On Wednesday, Betbadal was among the 14 victims shot to death at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino by a husband and wife now linked to Islamic extremism.
Her family and friends called her death a heartbreaking twist of fate. Betbadal, an Assyrian Christian who was born in Iran in 1969, fled to America when she was 18 to escape the extremism that followed the Iranian Revolution, her family had said in a statement.
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Precious in God’s sight is the blood of His beloved.
God’s not into random senseless bloodshed. That is a Satan thing. However He will allow sacrifices as a moral exhibit of righteousness, in the likeness of the Son’s work.
San Bernardino was the shot heard around the world, and even the NYT knows it although their answer is asinine, to ban a multiple purpose item, the gun. The actual answer is “to arms in wisdom.” Don’t pick a fight but be jolly ready to end one. And then, a relative peace achieved, the gospel has room to be preached and will make sense. Let’s (as humanity) accept God’s gift and not be fighting each other like this.
Prayers said.
Thanks BeadCounter.
What’s this about Putin and a limo, Sunky?
The way world events are shaping up, it might be ISIS that does it (or tries) and how would we react... would we really be cheering?
Ironic and sad.
We all should be, yes.
Well said!!
One of my best bosses was an Assyrian Christian who fled Tehran at a young age. The Assyrian’s are getting wiped out in a genocide in the middle east and Iran.
Even for ISIS?
Marbles are being lost here.
Also, do you know what lies beyond the “common Putin”?
To lose the frying pan but to gain the fire is also not an occasion for cheering.
I remember where I went to school we had a lot of Lebanese people....mostly all Catholics...
my impression of them as Arabs was a good one....
and now look who is representative of Arabs....awful horrible stone age animals...
AMEN.
A new martyred saint in Heaven. RIP.
Amen, you got that right.
The very sad thing is that these same Muslims are going to go after BIGTIME those Arabs who are Christians.
I do believe that incidents like what has happened last week is going to influence the upcoming Presidential elections.
“Assyrian Christian who was born in Iran in 1969, fled to America when she was 18 to escape the extremism that followed the Iranian Revolution,.........”
And the “extremism” eventually caught up with her. Radicals come in many different forms and of many different religions, at this time its once again ISLAMS. The Crusaders missed a few.
Sadly, the new world war has come to America.
There is no lance that can kill Satan. He is as ready as any willing sinner is.
He was such a harmless man. He was there to harm or kill nobody, he wasn’t promoting himself or some little group or cult, he was warning people in love about the seething evil behind Islam.
Hell couldn’t abide this, and blew its top.
America has now dipped into the eternal war in a way that is very difficult to ignore.
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