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Posted on 09/04/2004 12:53:36 PM PDT by KriegerGeist
RUSSIAN CHRISTIAN CHILDREN HELD HOSTAGE
By Michael Ireland Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service September 1, 2004
BESLAN, RUSSIA (ANS) -- Russian Ministries of Wheaton, Illinois, has issued an urgent call to prayer regarding the siege of School #1 today in Beslan, Russia, by Chechen rebels. Approximately 20 rebels are holding 400 people hostage including teachers, children, and some parents.
Hostage children include those of two evangelical workers trained by Russian Ministries and many other children who recently returned from a Russian Ministries' summer camp.
All of the hostages are being held in the gymnasium, with children placed in the windows as human shields. At least eight people have already been killed including a parent of one of the schoolchildren, a girl, and two policeman. Attackers are threatening to blow up the building if police attempt to storm the school.
Russian Ministries sponsors three Evangelism and Church-Planting Centers in this volatile region. At least two local evangelical pastors, brothers Taymuraz Totiev, with five children in the school, and Sergey Totiev, with three children in the school, are urging all Christians of the world to pray with them for the hostage children and their families at this time.
Russian Ministries' director, Genady Terkun, reporting from outside the school grounds, said that many of the children were very excited about the beginning of school and happy because they had just returned from summer camps supported by Russian Ministies where they learned about Jesus.
The seizure of the school took place shortly after celebratory activities launching the beginning of a new schoolyear. Terkun joins the Totiev family in urging all Christians of the world to pray for the physical safety and spiritual strength of all the hostages and the families of 50 other Christian children trapped in the school.
This siege on School #1 in Beslan marks the latest in a series of violent attacks this year in Russia attributed to Chechen terrorists.
On February 6, an explosion ripped through a subway car in Moscow killing 41 people. On May 9, a bomb exploded in a stadium in the Chechen capital of Grozny during a Victory Day ceremony, killing Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov and 24 other people. On August 24, two airplanes crashed within minutes of each other after taking off from the same airport. Ninety people were killed. On August 31, a car bomb went off outside of a Moscow subway stop killing at least 10 people.
************************************************************************************************************ Christian children held hostage in Russia, ministry abounds
Posted on September 3rd: 2004 | GospelCom.com
Russia (MNN) -- Christians are on the ground in Beslan, Russia consoling families involved in the hostage situation. Sergey Rakhuba is with Russian Ministries which has outreach in this region bordering Chechnya.
Rakhuba's been talking with Petr Lumichkin, a pastor who's ministering to the families. "Petr says that all Christians (came) to that area to encourage those ones who need encouragement. They're providing comfort and talking to people."
Sergey and Taymuraz Totiev are brothers who are leading Russian Ministries program in Beslan. Their eight children and 50 other children who were part of the local church were taken hostage together. Rakhuba says while the Totiev's are extremely emotional, God is using them. "The Totiev family, they have all their children, seven to 14 years old, they're all in that school. And, Sergey himself, very much devastated of course, he says 'I don't know why God allowed it to happen', but then he's talking to people that are around him, like him, fathers and mothers. He is sharing his faith."
Rakhuba says many of the families involved have many questions. "Some people blame even God, saying 'why couldn't God protect the little ones?' This is an opportunity to tell them about God and the hope in Him and to communicate the Gospel to them."
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This whole episode hurts Kerry.
Pinng!
Just heard that Al Zaqwari is suprised by the outcry against this crime and is calling it justified and demanding more of it from the muslim maniacs
Just sent this to Drudge, feel free to copy and sent to him.
http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/s04090003.htm
RUSSIAN CHRISTIAN CHILDREN HELD HOSTAGE
By Michael Ireland Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service September 1, 2004
BESLAN, RUSSIA (ANS) -- Russian Ministries of Wheaton, Illinois, has issued an urgent call to prayer regarding the siege of School #1 today in Beslan, Russia, by Chechen rebels. Approximately 20 rebels are holding 400 people hostage including teachers, children, and some parents.
Hostage children include those of two evangelical workers trained by Russian Ministries and many other children who recently returned from a Russian Ministries' summer camp.
All of the hostages are being held in the gymnasium, with children placed in the windows as human shields. At least eight people have already been killed including a parent of one of the schoolchildren, a girl, and two policeman. Attackers are threatening to blow up the building if police attempt to storm the school.
More evidence upon the mountaon of existing evidence that this is a religious war, whether we want to believe it or not.
I am just pointing out that this attack was Islamics against Christians and not "militants", "Chechen Rebels", "Freedom Fighters", "Insurgents" or any other fancy name or cause the liberal media want to give them.
These were Islamic Terrorists [many Arabs and other foreigners/non-Chechens] that went after this Christian town and women and children. This is not fight for Chechen liberty by freedom fighter against Russian forces.
Get my point?
"If a kafir person (non-believer) goes in a Muslim country, he is like a cow," explains Hamza. "Anybody can take him. That is the Islamic law...I say the reality that's in the Muslim books anyway. Whether I say it or not, it's in the books." -Muslim cleric
| Posted: January 26, 2003 © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com In November, Sheik Abu Hamza, long affiliated with Finsbury Park, was caught on film urging his followers to kill non-Muslims – particularly Americans – and to commit other acts of terrorism As WorldNetDaily reported at the time, in a tape converted to digital files and smuggled onto the Internet, Hamza tells an audience that non-believers should be killed or sold into slavery. "If a kafir person (non-believer) goes in a Muslim country, he is like a cow," explains Hamza. "Anybody can take him. That is the Islamic law." "If a kafir is walking by and you catch him, he's booty," he says on one tape. "You can sell him in the market. Most of them are spies. And even if they don't do anything, if Muslims cannot take them and sell them in the market, you just kill them. It's OK." Praising the al-Qaida bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people, Hamza adds: "If Muslims are having a war against these people, than yes, it is legitimate" to kill them. He also praised attacks against ships from non-Muslim countries: "If a ship which loses its way and comes to a Muslim land, they'll take it as booty."In fact, the 2000 terrorist attack on the USS Cole killed, which killed 17 American sailors, has been linked to Muslim militants in Britain. But Hamza has never been charged. When confronted with such charges, Hamza scoffs, saying he can't be accused of inciting people to commit violent acts because he's a cleric who only preaches Muslim law. "I say the reality that's in the Muslim books anyway. Whether I say it or not, it's in the books." Despite accusations he recruits for al-Qaida, Hamza's only punishment in Britain has been a High Court order banning him from preaching at the Finsbury Park mosque. However, when the Ottawa Citizen visited the mosque recently, worshippers had his phone number handy, the newspaper reported. Two of Hamza's devotees include failed suicide bombers Richard Reid - who tried to detonate a shoe bomb while flying from Paris to the US - and Zacharias Moussaoui, who the FBI claims was to have been the 20th hijacker in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.
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Where? Zaqarwi is clearly crazy, but he is not supposed to be stupid.
"I am just pointing out that this attack was Islamics against Christians and not "militants", "Chechen Rebels", "Freedom Fighters", "Insurgents" or any other fancy name or cause the liberal media want to give them.
"These were Islamic Terrorists [many Arabs and other foreigners/non-Chechens] that went after this Christian town and women and children. This is not fight for Chechen liberty by freedom fighter against Russian forces."
You are correct; and things are only going to get a lot worse before these Islamic nutcakes are finished.
It was reported on Fox news
An update on the families of Sergey Totiev and his brother, Taymuraz, who had eight children between their two families inside the school.
http://www.nbc5.com/news/3706159/detail.html
Russian Hostage Situation Hits Home In Wheaton
Russian Ministries Waits To Hear About Children At Beslan School
POSTED: 6:16 pm CDT September 3, 2004
UPDATED: 7:59 pm CDT September 3, 2004
WHEATON, Ill. -- Some people in the Chicago area are directly affected by the school hostage crisis in Russia.
The Russian Ministries is a Wheaton-based organization that has helped hundreds of children, including at least 50 inside the Beslan school where the situation took place. NBC5's Rob Elgas reported that many of those children are feared dead.
More: More Than 200 May Be Dead In Russian School Seizure
The Russian Ministries is taking phone call after phone call, trying to determine who died and who is still alive. For Sergey Rakhuba, the vice president of Russian Ministries, images of panicked, injured and dead children hit hard.
"It's tough," he said. "I cannot imagine how some people can use precious children as human shields."
Sergey Totiev and his brother, Taymuraz, had eight children inside the school. Two of their boys were found alive, but burned. Five other children are still missing. A 9-year-old girl, Anna, was found dead.
"[Sergey Totiev] just told me they found one of the daughters dead," Rakhuba said. "Her name is Anna. She is 9 years old."
Together the Totiev brothers have built churches, started Sunday schools and worked with Rakhuba to invigorate an impoverished region.
"It was just wonderful," Rakhuba said. "They were so welcoming, so generous, so hospitable. It's hard to forget those minutes together."
Rakhuba believes one of the children feared dead may be alive, her body misidentified. He will head to Beslan in the coming weeks to visit with families there.
The Russian Ministries has set up a fund to help the families who have lost children in the tragedy. Make donations to:
Fear Not Fund
P.O. Box 496
Wheaton, Ill. 60189
http://www.bosnewslife.com/article/2/1/7/2/7.aspx
HOSTAGES CHRISTIANS
Among the hostages were the organization's "coordinator for (the) region there and the other one is the pastor of the church there in (the school town of) Beslan," Sergey Rakhuba said earlier. "And it happens that they are brothers by blood and by faith and their eight children are there, all of their children are there," he added in an interview monitored by BosNewsLife.
Russian Ministries, which sponsors three Evangelism and Church-Planting Centers in the volatile region, identified the brothers as Taymuraz Totiev, with five children and Sergey Totiev, with three children in the school.
Russia's government believes the militants are supported by fundamentalist Muslim terrorist networks such as the al-Qaeda network of Osama bin Laden.
I'm not sure, but he may have been sarcastic saying, we know that Islamics *often* are out there killing Christians (and Jews) ... he may have been saying "same stuff, different day"
not to downplay this horror ... just that islam is as islam does. that's how I read his post but I may be wrong.
If you'd like to get more information about the situation you can follow this link to: www.russian-ministries.org or http://www.russian-ministries.org/fs_start.htm (also are some pictures from the family, the ministry, and the latest situation) if anyone is interested.
ping
ISLAM'S WAR AGAINST THE WEST
By Howard Bloom
http://www.howardbloom.net/islam.htm
Osama Bin Laden, Terrorism, And The Great Crusade Against America
Holy War Goes Global
http://www.howardbloom.net/osama.htm
Thank you for posting the information in #15 about:The "Russian Ministries is a Wheaton-based organization that has helped hundreds of children, including at least 50 inside the Beslan school where the situation took place. NBC5's Rob Elgas reported that many of those children are feared dead."
The targeting and murder of all innocent children is a crime against humanity.
I feel just as I did on 9-11-01......heart broken & enraged at the same time!
FRiends: Please Ping your lists to this thread.
New York Post
WHEN THE KILLERS COME FOR THE KIDS
BY RALPH PETERS
September 4, 2004 -- THE mass murder of children revolts the human psyche. Herod sending his henchmen to massacre the infants of Bethlehem haunts the Gospels. Nothing in our time was crueler than what the Germans did to children during the Holocaust. Slaughtering the innocents violates a universal human taboo. Or a nearly universal one. Those Muslims who preach Jihad against the West decided years ago that killing Jewish or Christian children is not only acceptable, but pleasing to their god when done by "martyrs."
It isn't politically correct to say this, of course. We're supposed to pretend that Islam is a "religion of peace." All right, then: It's time for Muslims to stand up for the once-noble, nearly lost traditions of their faith and condemn what Arab and Chechen terrorists and blasphemers did in the Russian town of Beslan.
If Muslim religious leaders around the world will not publicly condemn the taking of children as hostages and their subsequent slaughter — if those "men of faith" will not issue a condemnation without reservations or caveats — then no one need pretend any longer that all religions are equally sound and moral.
Islam has been a great and humane faith in the past. Now far too many of its adherents condone, actively or passively, the mass murder of school kids. Instead of condemnations of the Muslim "Jihadis" responsible for butchering more than 200 women and children in cold blood, we will hear spiteful counter-accusations about imaginary atrocities supposedly committed by Western militaries.
Well, the cold fact is that Western soldiers, whether Americans, Brits, Russians or Israelis, do not take hundreds of children hostage, then shoot them in cold blood while detonating bombs in their midst. The Muslim world can lie to itself, but we need lie no longer.
The tragedy in southern Russia occurred thousands of miles from the United States, but, in essence, that massacre happened next door. The parents, teachers and students kept for days without water or food in a sweltering school building before being butchered were our children, our sisters, our wives, our parents.
The mass hostage situation wasn't about Chechen rebels (and at least 10 Arabs) opposing the Russian government. It was a continuation of the universal struggle between good and evil. And there is no doubt which side is evil, scorned though the word may be by our own elite.
How can any human being with a shred of conscience dismiss what occurred in that school as anything less than evil?
The attack in Beslan wasn't about Russia's brutal incompetence in Chechnya — as counter-productive as Moscow's grim heavy-handedness may have been. It was about religious bigotry so profound that the believer can hold a gun to a child's head, pull the trigger and term the act "divine justice."
We will hear complaints that the Russian special forces should have waited — even after the terrorists began shooting children. Negotiations are the heroin of Westerners addicted to self-delusion. Who among us would have waited when he or she saw fleeing children cut down by automatic weapons? The urge to protect children is as primal as any impulse we ever feel.
Make no mistake: No blame attaches to the Russians for the massacre at that school. The guilt is entirely upon the Islamic extremists who have led the religion they claim to cherish into the realms of nightmare.
There will be repercussions. Having suffered the hijacking and destruction of two passenger jets, a deadly bombing at a Moscow subway station and a massacre in a primary school all in less than two weeks, the Kremlin will have learned to rue the day it imagined that there was anything to gain by opposing American efforts against terrorists, whether Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein.
As they inevitably do, the terrorists reminded the world of their heartless barbarism. Even if France manages to beg the release of its kidnapped journalists in Iraq, it has begun to sense its vulnerability. And all Europeans with a vestige of sense will recognize that the school seizure in Russia could easily repeat itself in Languedoc or Umbria, Bavaria or Kent.
An attack on children is an attack on all of humanity.
No matter what differences Western states discover to divide them, the terrorists will bring us together in the end. Their atrocities expose all wishful thinking for what it is.
A final thought: Did any of those protesters who came to Manhattan to denounce our liberation of 50 million Muslims stay an extra day to protest the massacre in Russia? Of course not.
The protesters no more care for dead Russian children than they care for dead Kurds or for the hundreds of thousands of Arabs that Saddam Hussein executed. Or for the ongoing Arab-Muslim slaughter of blacks in Sudan. Nothing's a crime to those protesters unless the deed was committed by America.
The butchery in Russia was a crime against humanity. In every respect. Was any war ever more necessary or just than the War on Terror?
And what will terror's apologists say when the killers come for their own children?
Ralph Peters is the author of "Beyond Terror: Strategy in a Changing World."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1207290/posts?q=1&&page=101
FYI......PING
There were innocent children & missionaries connected with a Wheaton, Ill. Russian Christian Charity killed by those monsters.
I resent, and I mean I TRULY RESENT the media
characterizing these Islamofreaks as mere "terrorists."
Good post Julie, and thanks for the ping.
Thanks for the ping!
Boy who begged for water was bayoneted
The Sunday Times (UK) ^ | 9/5/04 | Peter Conradi
Posted on 09/04/2004 10:20:50 PM EDT by saquin
AFTER more than 24 hours in the sweltering heat of the school gymnasium in Beslan, one of the boys trapped inside could not take it any longer, writes Peter Conradi.
Summoning up his courage, he approached a hostage taker with a bayonet fixed to his assault rifle and asked him for a drink. It was probably the worst error that he could have made.
“Instead of giving him water, he drove his bayonet through the boy’s body,” said Stanislav Tsarakhov, 10, another captive standing nearby. “I don’t know if he died.”
Details of the incident emerged as children who escaped the siege described how their captors had deliberately deprived them of food and water, repeatedly firing guns into the ceiling to try to silence them. “The hostage takers would hold their machineguns to your temple and said that if there was a lot of noise, they would shoot everyone,” said a girl, who gave her name only as Zalina.
Diana Gadzhinova, 14, who also survived the siege, said that one of the greatest hardships had been the lack of food and drink.
“When we were let out to go to the lavatory, some children would run into a room where there were plants in pots and they would eat them,” she said.
“Others would hide the plants in their underwear and share them with their friends. But the hunger was not as bad as the thirst. Some children couldn’t take it and would urinate into their hand and drink.”
At another point, Gadzhinova said, they were all ordered to lie down. There were so many people packed into the gym that they had to lie on top of each other. “The gunmen warned that if there was an arm or a leg in their way, they would shoot at it without warning,” she said.
For Arsen Khasigov, 11, trapped with his mother, the worst thing was the sleep deprivation. “They kept us awake all the time,” he said. “They would pour our urine on our heads.”
Also horrific was the role played by two “black widows” — Chechen women who turned to terrorism to avenge husbands and brothers killed during the Kremlin’s military clampdown on the breakaway republic.
According to accounts from some captives, the women blew themselves up in the first hours of the siege, killing several men near them. Last night no trace of their bodies had been found.
OMG!
I saw the title of this article scroll by.
Julie, are these people sociopathic or religious fanatics?
Russia is an Orthodox Christian country. The Muslims hate Christians, Jews, Sikhs, and Hindus. The Muslims are carrying out the dreams of what Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.
Stay safe Julie
Could someone please post the picture of the little girl's bloody hand clutching her crucifix? It was very powerful, and the first thing I thought of when I saw it, (they were targeting Christians).
Julie, are these people sociopathic or religious fanatics?
Oh my Lord.
May God keep these souls forever in His arms.
Bullshit!
The "good Islamists" must get on a frickin' plane, buy an AK-47 and fight against Jihad!! This crap about issuing a press release or calling a reporter to say "I don't support these actions" is NOT ENOUGHT!!!!!!
If they're with us...I wanna see some pro-American, pro-Christian bullets flying!!!
Stay safe Julie .......Stay safe
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