Posted on 06/29/2009 6:07:12 AM PDT by lizol
Polish engineer's refusal to convert costs him his life
Posted : Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:29:39 GMT Author : DPA
Islamabad - Piotr Stanczak did not exhibit the slightest hint of hesitation when the Pakistani Taliban asked him to choose between execution and conversion to Islam. Whether the Polish geologist acted out of pride or religious conviction, he decided to pay through his blood to save his faith, a choice that bewildered his killers and keep them talking about him with respect after his murder.
Stanczak, 42, was kidnapped September 28 on his way to survey for oil exploration in Attock district, of Pakistan's eastern province of Punjab. The kidnappers also killed his driver and two guards.
Militants released a gruesome seven-minute video in early February showing his beheading. One of the murderers blamed the Pakistani government which failed to accept their demands for the release of detained militants.
Warsaw reacted angrily, slammed Islamabad's "apathy" in tackling terrorism and offering a 1-million-zloty (300,000-dollar) reward for information leading to the capture of the Taliban militants who beheaded Stanczak.
Among the militants whose release was sought by the Taliban was Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a British-Pakistani who was sentenced to death for the 2002 abduction and murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl.
When negotiations between the representatives of the Pakistani government and the hostage-takers failed, the Taliban leadership gave the Polish man a last chance to save himself, Stanczak's captors revealed to another hostage, a Pakistani man Mohammad Amir.
Amir - a pseudonym, as he asked for anonymity to avoid possible repercussions - was released recently after his family paid 1 million rupees (25,000 dollars) to agents of Taliban commander Tariq Afridi.
Afridi heads a small group of Taliban in the Orakzai tribal district and is loyal to Baitullah Mehsud, the chief of local Taliban who has a 5-million-dollar bounty on his head for being an al-Qaeda facilitator. Pakistani troops have recently been ordered to take decisive action against Mehsud.
Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May his soul, and the souls of all the faithful departed, rest in peace.
The world needs more like him.
God bless you in whatever lies before you, sir. R.I.P.
Ping
It’s difficult to get decent, regular folk to understand that this is real and possibly coming to this country. They are just too good to comprehend this kind of evil (even the less-than-perfect ones.)
And the world is waiting for the “moderate” muslims throughout the world to condemn this act.........waiting for the sun to turn into a Red Giant and then become a white dwarf.
Islam's followers have taught me to hate islam. He sounds like a good man whose work would have helped the people who killed him in the name of allah. Unlike what the Bible teaches, apparently there is no love in islam, as its followers so often demonstrate.
“Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.” Revelation 2:10
Jesus said in Matthew 10:28: “Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.”
That will happen first.
Piotr. You lived up to your name.
May Christ bless you and give us the grace to die like you did (if we must).
Martyr in Christ. Hope if it comes to it I can follow his example.
Religion of Peace.
RIP Piotr Stanczak. Condolences to his family and friends.
Those who commit such ritual Satanic killings (and do not repent) would seem to me to be among the "wicked". In the end ... sucks to be them.
A great tragedy is that the American people can’t even understand what happened here, or they have no sympathy for the oppressed, only the oppressor.
I’m with you. I hate Islam.
What a brave and strong man. I don’t know how he had the courage of his convictions to that point, whatever those convictions were. How anybody can know of these things and not realise that islam is evil and demonic is beyond me. Evil evil killers, I hope a thousand demons torment them in this life and the next.
But then I'm surely not as brave as this Polish engineer.
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