Tolerance, anyone?
Chalk up a victory for misguided tolerance in the recent flap with Lebanon’s ambassador to Canada, Raymond Baaklini.
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2003
Sisters of St. Joseph’s reach out to poor of Yemen
And now, for a change, some good news from the Arabian Peninsula.
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Three died ‘sacrificially’
Jarring images of how an Islamic extremist burst into, of all places, a hospital in the last days of 2002, to fire bullets from his Kalishnikov into the heads of our friends will linger for a while. My wife Jean and I and some colleagues are still laying to rest what has become known across Yemen as ‘The Jibla Tragedy.’
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We should emulate the Yemeni Way
SANA’A, YEMEN ✦ The Yanks. We love ’em. We hate ’em.
Indeed, Jean and I are still recovering from the news of the brutal slaying of threeU.S.aid workers, including a doctor friend, at Jibla missionary hospital.
The killer, apparently an Islamic extremist, reportedly said he killed “to get closer to God.” Right.
And who better to kill than American Christians? It’s killing two birds, innocent as they may be, with one stone.
Indeed,U.S.foreign policy really has folks in a huff these days. In fact, many of us would bend over backward to disassociate ourselves from the Yanks. No?
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Giving up life for the foolish notion of love
It didn’t take long for what started out like a normal day in our household to turn into the day from hell.
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